Jason & Amanda
Award winning fine art photography team
Jason and Amanda Ray are a fine art photography team with a primary focus on traditional film techniques, most notably medium format. Winner of Tokyo, Moscow, and International Foto Awards. Recently named one of the world's top ten fine art photographers.
Jason and Amanda are a husband and wife creative team that enjoys travel, thunderstorms, poetry, fairies, and ghosts. They spend most of their time in cemeteries and deep in the forest, communing with kindred spirits. The duo's art displays what their dreams project, simultaneously melancholy and peacefully surreal. Both Jason and Amanda came from extremely troubled upbringings, surrounded by hopelessness, addiction, abuse and death for most of their lives. Due to this, they create art with the intention of taking grim subject matter and putting both light and serenity where there is darkness. Death becomes a peaceful dream. Depression becomes serene melancholy. Loneliness becomes tranquility. And if life is but a dream, better to dread the waking than this sublime illusion.​
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Grants & Fellowships
MS Arts Commission / FY25 Artist Fellowship
MS Arts Commission / Individual Artist Mini Grant / FY2023
Ilford Photo / Analogue Community Grant [Shortlist] / 3rd Award Q1 2023
EXHIBITIONS
Dodho / Barcelona, Spain / 2024
London International Creative (LICC) / London, UK / 2024
Gallerium Art / Vancouver, British Columbia / 2023
PH21 Gallery / Budapest, Hungary / 2023
BlackBox Gallery / Portland, USA / 2023
Chateau Gallery / Louisville, USA / 2023
Alex Ferron Gallery / New York, USA / 2022
Praxis Gallery / Minneapolis, USA / 2022
Blue Moon Camera / Portland, USA / 2021
Featured in
The Book of Arts: Life and Death
Exhibition Book - Praxis Gallery - Motion Blur (Cover Image)
Exhibition Book - Praxis Gallery - Nude Geographies (Director's Choice)
Best of the Best Photographers 2023 (One Eyeland Book Vol.12)