Jon Frederick is a fine-art photographer whose work lives at the intersection of reverence and restraint—images that don’t shout, but stay. His photographs lean contemplative and cinematic, often exploring memory, place, faith, and the quiet psychology beneath ordinary scenes. While his approach can be minimalist when needed, minimalism is simply one tool in a larger artistic vocabulary—used in service of meaning, not style for style’s sake.

Over his lifetime, Jon’s work has received international recognition and has been featured across multiple platforms, publications, and exhibition spaces. His images have been shown in galleries and stores on nearly every continent, and he has earned numerous awards in competitive photography communities. Jon was a finalist in the prestigious International Photography Awards in 2021 and was featured in the "Emerging Photographers" issue of *Fine Art Photography Quarterly* in 2022.

He is the photographer and co-author of *Immersion*, An Inspirational Christian Photography Collection (ISBN-13: 979-8415460830).

**ARTIST STATEMENT**

I photograph the quiet parts of life; what people walk past, what they forget, what they feel but don’t say out loud. I’m drawn to restraint: shape, shadow, texture, and the small evidence that a place has a soul.

Faith and memory are recurring undercurrents in my work. Not always obvious. Sometimes they show up as reverence. Sometimes as ache. Either way, I want the photograph to hold still long enough for the viewer to meet themselves in it.

I’m not committed to one aesthetic religion. Minimalism, abstraction, documentary realism, and intimate detail all belong in the same bag; if they serve the emotional truth of the image.