Jason Lee: Selected American Photographs 2008 – 2020

Leica Gallery London has announced it will be showing photographs by the actor, skateboarder, and photographer Jason Lee from 12th May until 11th June 2023. The series is a product of Lee’s visual observations with his camera whilst traversing the American landscape and harks back to his photography forefathers, such as the black and white work of William Christenberry.

For Lee, jumping in his car, driving around and shooting is how he likes to occupy his time:

“Since my first photographic outings in my native California in 2006, where I explored a more rural, perhaps neglected face of the state, and the many subsequent outings zigzagging through the West Coast, the Southwest, and Texas, I remain fascinated by the American landscape, by evidence of cancellation and departure and the environmental contradictions that make up our collective everyday view. These conflicts, at once strange and beautiful, this is where the questions are. It’s then and now splitting time, man and nature pushing up against each other, and progress forever forcing itself on the contented. And somewhere in the middle you make pictures.” - Jason Lee

The exhibition will coincide with the release of Lee’s latest monograph TX | CA 17 published by Stanley/Barker. Prints from the exhibition will be for sale together with signed copies of the monograph and a limited amount of copies of In the Gold Dust Rush also published by Stanley/Barker.