A native of Pasadena, California, fine art photographer Jason DeBose has had a camera by his side every day since his 15th birthday. Since the acquisition of his first digital SLR camera in 2005, DeBose has been shooting as many as 80,000 photographs a year of the locales in which he lives, travels and exhibits his artwork. Following his first exhibition in Los Angeles in 2007, DeBose moved to Helsinki, Finland and proceeded to win invitations for his work from more than 40 hotels, restaurants, churches, galleries and museums in seven countries and six U.S. states.

       

       His work can best be distinguished for its sharp compositions, bold colors and lower resolution, which has often been mistaken in exhibition spaces for paintings. This style has been the impetus of arts grants awarded to DeBose for seven exhibition projects since 2009, including They Left 150 Years Ago, a documentary-style exploration of Finnish heritage in North America.

       

       Since 2013, DeBose has been a member of the Finnish Union of Artist Photographers and has been represented for European sales by Art Nou Millenni Gallery in Barcelona since 2016. 
 

        In 2022, he contributed photographic artwork shot in Kyiv and recruited three photographers from Ukraine to submit for the online exhibition Salon in the Sky, which examined the lives of Ukrainians defending their homeland in the opening months of the war. 
 

       In the same year, DeBose was one of six artists chosen to give presentations of their work to the audiences of Relational Art Week, a series of multidisciplinary displays that examine the relationship between art and public life at Helsinki's Myymälä2 Gallery, an event sponsored by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

   The year 2025 will mark eight years since DeBose began to integrate the performance of stand-up comedy into his artistic repertoire. Now having taken the microphone in front of audiences in eight countries, four U.S. states and 16 Finnish cities, he credits the travel entailed in performing with his favorite photographic work of the present day and has integrated this latest work into his social media presence and multimedia comedic performances on stage via the use of high-resolution wall projectors.