A native of Southern California, Jason Lee is a photographer, director, and actor. Having established a successful career as a professional skateboarder during skateboarding's pivotal late 80s and early 90s period, Lee would go on to pursue a career in acting, which would lead to working in film, television, and voiceover, and with such directors as Kevin Smith, Lawrence Kasdan, Cameron Crowe, and Rebecca Miller. In 2001, Lee developed a passion for photography and dedicated himself to pursuing the medium as a creative profession. His photographic works have since been featured in multiple group and solo exhibitions, magazines and books, with A PLAIN VIEW (2018) representing the debut publication for Film Photographic, the photo book publisher Lee founded in 2015. Prior to the release of A PLAIN VIEW, in 2016, Texas-based Refueled magazine released a special limited edition hardcover issue featuring a selection of Lee’s American instant film photographs spanning 2006 to 2016. June 1, 2019, saw the opening of OK: Jason Lee Photographs, Lee’s debut museum exhibition. Commissioned by Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art and on view through December 2019, the exhibition featured 178 Oklahoma photographs spanning the Meinig and Burnstein galleries in the museum’s satellite location, Philbrook Downtown (now Bob Dylan Center). A selection of Larry Clark’s original Tulsa prints were concurrently presented in the adjacent Smith Gallery. In December 2020, UK publisher Stanley/Barker released IN THE GOLD DUST RUSH, the first book to feature a selection of Lee’s previously unpublished American black-and-white photographs, spanning 2008 to 2020. Preceding the release of ITGDR, in November 2020, at the request of Galveston Historical Foundation, Lee traveled to Galveston, Texas, to make photographs on the island for a special book release to help commemorate the foundation’s 2021 sesquicentennial. The result is Galveston (2021), a 176-page hardcover offering featuring 98 color and black-and-white images. Following the book’s release, GHF held a public signing with Lee in its majestic Bishop’s Palace, a National Historic Landmark and contributing building in the island’s East End Historic District. In December 2023, Lee opened Eagle Rock Camera & Goods with photographer Raymond Molinar. Situated in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, the quaint street-side shop offers new and used analog cameras, film, accessories, and photo books.