Jason Jedrusiak
“Jason, hey, Jason? Hello…,” a close friend catches my eyes staring into space,
“What are you looking at?”
“Everything and nothing at the same time. I’m staring at complex simplicity.”
From action, inaction, interaction, and everything unordinary pulsing about the everyday, my shutter experiences life, its movement, its complacency, and its vibrant energy. I enjoy photography as I enjoy life, as a continuous experimentation of living, mode, and medium. I let my mouth do the talking, I let my fingers do the shooting, and I let my eyes do the walking while knowing that the specific moments in time that I capture represent a part of my life, my own unique view of the world that cannot be duplicated.
“Looks like any other mirror to me.”
“Exactly, I see another world. Why would anyone throw that away?
Biography
Jason Michael Jedrusiak, born and raised in suburbia, New Jersey, grew up on the steady visual diet of diners, boardwalks, garage sales, and shopping malls. Spending his childhood collecting comic books and sports cards sparked his interests in photography and design. Initially poised to create rollercoasters on the engineering track in high school and college, Jason corkscrewed and decided to follow his creative drive into the visual arts.
In 2006, Jason graduated with honors from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts Photography alongside two minors, one in music industry and the other in creative writing. As a staff photographer for both the Northeastern News and Cauldron Yearbook during his tenure at Northeastern, Jason, as a founding member, also helped kick start two campus groups, Hammered: which with its hint of irony promotes alcohol awareness and provides non-alcoholic events and activities for students and Writers Rambling: a gathering for students who just like to write and/or crave feedback on their words, screenplays, novels, short stories, or poetry.
Not only a visual artist but a word artist as well, Jason has had his poems and photographs published in the Spectrum Literary Arts Magazine four straight years and was chosen by his mentor Professor-Poet Joseph DeRoche as Northeastern University's representative in the 2006 Intercollegiate Poetry Festival. Bringing the same vibrant energy and narrative he brings to his words on stage or on the page, Jason pours his acute attention to detail into every frame he snaps.
As a photographer, Jason, an active observer, revels in capturing the remnants of human interaction within an environment. Commenting on our society as we all do, through time, movement, and language, Jason’s shutterclicks build upon narratives from distinct vantage points while he “traces his fingerprints alongside ours in places oddly familiar but inherently changed.” His photographic series include Night via Playground, Don’t! Drive-Fast-Thru-Food, Outdoor Winter Adventure: Industrialized Edition, Reflections on Stereotypes on Shadows, and his digital pinhole panoramic set Boston: Old-New, B&W-Oversaturation which has previously been on display at Boston mainstay E.P. Levine.
Recently, Jason followed up his study abroad experience in and around Australia by completing a journey through Fiji and a second trip to New Zealand. With two more bungy jumps under his belt, Jason has returned to Boston where he is a freelance photographer as well as a supervisor for Pitney Bowes Management on his alma maters campus. He’s actively involved in several photography groups around the city including the New England Photography Network, the Boston Photography Center, the Brookline Arts Center, and The Lomography Society International. You can also find Jason helping out at various events for Truth Serum Productions, volunteering to teach inner-city kids to snowboard at Youth Enrichment Services (Y.E.S.), promoting the Davis Square Connections Center, reciting his raw poetry at the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, trying to make you laugh as part of the Improvinators Comedy Troupe, living and traveling one couch at a time as part of the CouchSurfing Project 2.0, and learning something new everyday through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
Today, shooting and printing in a variety of formats and alternative processes, Jason continues to enjoy photography as he enjoys life, as a continuous experimentation of living, mode, and medium. His other interests include philosophy, sport, and those always searching for another “blue centerlight to pop.”
