In Refiner’s Fire I create a black-and-white self-portrait series exploring the stark, unrelenting reality of mid-life clarity—something far more terrifying than a mid-life crisis. A crisis is chaotic, a frantic grasp for youth, reinvention, or escape. Clarity, however, is merciless. It doesn’t offer distraction or illusion; it strips everything down to the bone. It forces reckoning. Refiner’s Fire draws from the series Divining Masculinity and Psalms, using high-contrast monochrome photography to illuminate the raw, unavoidable truths of aging, mortality, and identity.
Jason Freeman born in Maine, is an American photographer based in Mid-Coast Maine. He uses his camera to capture light and life to interpret his self-exploration. He brings curiosity and his camera with him, probing the nature of internal and external perception (or realities) that drive his journey. He uses the camera to explore his relationship with masculinity, and how the social metaphysics of these expectations shape him. His search for mood and light awaken his subconscious. Where words fail, his camera helps him to understand.
