Jason Thrasher is a commercial photographer with a studio in the Leathers Building in downtown Athens, Georgia. Thrasher’s body of work on the rich and varied Athens music scene, Athens Potluck, is now on permanent installation on the third floor of the new Akins Ford Arena and was previously on view at the Georgia Theatre Gallery in downtown Athens for five years and featured in the solo retrospective, Athens Potluck, at UGA’s Special Collections Library. Published in book form, and awarded Georgia Author of the Year by The Georgia Writers Association, Athens Potluck sold out and is now out of print. His new book, Murmur Trestle, is available from UGA Press. Thrasher’s portraiture has been published in Rolling Stone, Billboard, New York Magazine, New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Garden & Gun, Nylon, USA Today and SPIN, and his photography is featured in the album designs of the Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood, Booker T., Randall Bramblett, Cracker, David Lowery, Blackberry Smoke and Bad Religion— to name just a few. His fine art photography has been exhibited at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, the ICA in London, Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Corcoran Gallery of Fine Art in Washington, DC, the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, and The Mercury Gallery and ATHICA in Athens. Thrasher has been the co-owner of Thrasher Photo + Design with his wife Beth since 2004.
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