杰森·伊利奇（Jason Illidge）

摄影师Jason Illidge出生于英国伦敦市中心。他一生热爱艺术，音乐、摄影、文学、绘画、戏剧和摄影均有所涉猎。青少年时期到三十岁出头，作为一名专业音乐人，他常常往返英国和欧洲各地巡回演出和录制唱片。2010年初来到深圳后，他对摄影的热爱从单纯的兴趣发展到发自内心的爱好。他渴望拍摄和记录中国文化，以及中国百姓的生活和变化。

2016年以来，他不仅是一名职业摄影师，而且还成为一名摄影指导和讲师。近年来，他有幸受邀在北京大学举办了一场摄影讲座，用图像和文字来讲述作为伦敦人在华生活了十多年的经历和感悟。他还受邀在上海立达学院为2000多名学生举办了一场开放的摄影讲座。

除了在深圳经营艺术和摄影业务外，他还是一名充满热情和幽默的摄影老师。他教过数百名学生，年龄从10岁到60岁不等，去过北京长城古北水乡，美丽的杭州西湖畔，和中国各地城市；也到过日本，柬埔寨，泰国和越南等国家。

他把对旅行的热爱和传承知识的快乐结合在一起。他开设课程和摄影工作室的目的不仅仅只是分享信息，同时也发人深省和反思，让学生们不仅认识到摄影，并通过摄影意识到周围的人和世界。对于他自己的摄影作品而言，他主要的拍摄对象是那些每天都在我们身边，但时常又不容易被注意到的人们。他坚信，图像中捕捉到的故事和情感就是一切，而且每张图像都有两个主题：镜头前的人和镜头后的人。

他曾担任中国摄影家协会的国际特邀评委，曾三次获得深圳之眼摄影大赛的决赛奖，并创办了华南摄影家小组，将西方和中国的摄影师聚集在一起，分享他们对摄影的热爱。

英文：

Photographer Jason Illidge was born in the heart of London, UK. Throughout his life, he has been passionate about the arts, including music, photography, literature, painting, and theater. During his teenage years and into his early thirties, he was a professional musician, frequently touring and recording across the UK and Europe. After moving to Shenzhen in early 2010, his passion for photography evolved from a mere interest into a profound desire to capture and document Chinese culture and the lives and changes of the Chinese people.

Since 2016, Jason has been not only a professional photographer but also a photography instructor and mentor. In recent years, he has had the honor of being invited to give a photography lecture at the prestigious Peking University, where he shared his experiences and insights from living in China for over a decade as a Londoner, through images and words. He was also invited to give an open photography lecture at Shanghai Lida College to over 2,000 students.

In addition to running his art and photography business in Shenzhen, Jason is a passionate and humorous photography teacher. He has taught hundreds of students ranging from 10 to 60 years old, visiting places such as the Gubei Water Town on the Great Wall near Beijing, the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou, and various cities across China. His travels have also taken him to Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Combining his love for travel with the joy of imparting knowledge is a rare and fortunate blend for him.

Jason's courses and photography workshops aim not just to share information but also to inspire and provoke reflection, helping students recognize photography as a means to understand the people and the world around them. In his own photographic work, he focuses mainly on capturing the everyday people who surround us but are often overlooked. He enjoys both color and black-and-white photography with digital and film cameras. He believes that the stories and emotions captured in an image are everything and that each image has two subjects: the person in front of the lens and the person behind it.

Jason has served as an international guest judge for the China Photographers Association and has been a finalist in the Shenzhen Eye Photography Competition three times. He founded the South China Photographers Group, bringing together Western and Chinese photographers to share their passion for photography.