Project Highlight

LAST WILDEST PLACE: The Purús/Manu region is one of the most isolated places in the Amazon, where threatened but still intact ecosystems provide for remote indigenous communities as well as water, oxygen, climate stability, and biological diversity for us all.

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New Work In Progress

WHAT IS FOUND THERE is a process-based project that recontextualizes 20 years of my personal and photojournalistic photography, challenging the dominant perspectives I worked in, asking how it might be deconstructed and reimagined to vitalize new ways of knowing an infinitely diverse yet inextricably connected world.

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FIlmmaking

eight16 creative is our creative nonfiction visual storytelling company. Our films explore issues of social justice; relationship and reciprocity; the unseen forces that guide us; and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Our art is rooted in traditional documentary but increasingly driven by experimental nonfiction approaches such as observational and experiential cinematography, animism, participatory collaborations, nonlinear timelines, and the recognition of each story’s spirit and sovereignty.

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New Work In Progress

UNSETTLED is a personal nonfiction series observes the growing dissonance in our collective cultural identity, combining re-contextualized images from my archive with new images drawing from day-to-day experience and inviting intuitive reflection on how we live on this land and with each other.

UNSETTLED is initially being created and shared in the context of the U.S.'s 250th and Colorado's 150th anniversary celebrations throughout 2026. It will be nice if this is just a moment in time, but I expect its relevance to extend well beyond this mournful milestone.

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Jason Houston’s photography, filmmaking, and art celebrates the diversity of human experience through stories exploring how we live on the planet and with each other. Jason has worked in over 30 countries making photojournalism, personal documentary, multimedia art, and short films. His work has been recognized, published, exhibited, premiered, and presented online, in print, and at venues worldwide for over 20 years.

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Story Collaborative Workshops

STORY COLLABORATIVE is a socially engaged photography and film workshop program we have been developing over the past 10 years. These collaborations are not typical photography or filmmaking workshops. We are not teaching camera work or how to be photographers or filmmakers. We are simply providing the tools, essential technical support, and a framework designed to help develop new layers of visual literacy and facilitate the creation and broader sharing of meaningful stories as a form of self-expression and catalyst for community conversations.

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