Jason Fulford


Jason Fulford is an American photographer, publisher and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York City and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Career

The primary format for Fulford's own photography is the book, which includes Sunbird, Crushed, Raising Frogs For $$$, The Mushroom Collector, Hotel Oracle, Contains: 3 Books, The Medium is a Mess, and Clayton's Ascent. He has had a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University.
In 2000, Fulford and Leanne Shapton founded the non-profit publisher J&L Books, where he is publisher, editor, and book designer. He works as a photographer and has lectured at various universities.
Fulford's photographs have been featured in The Atlantic, ''Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Topic''.

Personal life

He is based in Brooklyn, New York City, and is married to Tamara Shopsin.

Publications

Publications of photographs by Fulford

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  • Publications about art for young readers

  • Publications edited by Fulford

  • Publications with contributions by Fulford

  • Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • New Pictures 5: Jason Fulford, The Mushroom Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, October 2011 – April 2012. Photographs, publications, sculptures, and performances.
  • Mushroom Machine, San Francisco, CA, Kadist, May 2012.
  • Harry Smith's Paper Airplanes, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA, May–August 2016.
  • High Anxiety, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February–March 2017.
  • Fake Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, April 2017. With Jim Goldberg and Dru Donovan.
  • Picture Summer on Kodak Film, Micamera, Milan, 2021.
  • The Heart Is a Sandwich, Micamera, Milan, 2023.
  • Everything , Micamera, Milan, 2025.
  • Lots of Lots, Fotofestiwal, Łódź, 2025.

    Group exhibitions or during festivals

  • Where There's Smoke, San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, July–August 2014. With Ruth Van Beek, Michael Lundgren and Viviane Sassen. Curated by Darius Himes.
  • Hotel Oracle, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland, 2014.
  • Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, September–October 2017. Collaboration between Amanda Boe, McNair Evans, Kevin Kunishi, Fulford, Todd Hido, Mark Mahaney, Mike Smith, and Alec Soth.
  • The Mushroom Collection, Photo España, Madrid, 2018. Curated by Cristina De Middel.

    Awards

  • 2014: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation