statement of work
I am a self-portrait photographer exploring identity, faith, and emotional truth. My work draws from the Nazarene tradition’s revival of spiritual depth in art, guided by Scripture and the quiet rituals woven into everyday life. Each image serves as a visual prayer, where masculinity exhales, vulnerability inhales, and the sacred pulses just beneath the skin.
Bio
Jason Freeman is a nationally and internationally exhibited fine art self-portrait photographer whose work navigates the intimate terrain of identity, faith, and emotional truth. With a raw and introspective lens, Freeman explores the layered complexities of masculinity, vulnerability, and spiritual longing, drawing deeply from his Catholic faith and the enduring poetry of the Psalms.
In his series Divining Masculinity, Psalm, and Refiner’s Fire, Freeman uses his own body as both subject and vessel, challenging cultural constructs of manhood while illuminating the sacred tensions between strength and fragility, suffering and transcendence. Refiner’s Fire in particular reflects the transformative power of trial and purification, echoing the biblical metaphor of being tested and made new.
Shaped by the landscape of his surroundings and a profound inner spiritual journey, Jason Freeman continues to craft evocative, contemplative work that bridges body and soul, the seen and unseen, the temporal and the eternal.
“Where words fail, my camera helps me understand.”