I’ve been a photographer for as long as I can remember.

It goes back to when I was just a kid and had my first camera. A Kodak 110—which I’m pretty sure they don’t make anymore. This is probably a good thing because it was a piece of junk whose pictures were grainy and often terrible. However, it was this little camera which allowed me to start experimenting with photography.

I remember taking roll after roll of pictures all around my house of things like hummingbirds, the crystals hanging in my bedroom window as they captured the afternoon sunlight, and humorous events at Boy Scout encampments. Though I took many photos, I wouldn’t show any of them today, even though I still have many of them—in a word…they were horrible!

It was several years later that my grandfather gave me one of his 35mm cameras…and this was the day that photography changed for me.

It has only been over the past eight years that I have started to take photography more seriously and began to photograph the desert areas of southern Utah. I am more than willing to head down to the country I love so much for days—or even weeks—on end to see what images I can capture.

Today I photograph both places and people. There is something magical about capturing an image and then sharing that image with the world.

Photography is life.

- Jason Zimmerman