Award winning photographer specialising in editorial portraits, fashion, album covers and unit stills, James has worked with many of the most prestigious publishers, film producers, magazines and record companies across the world.

During his career, he has enjoyed photographing some of the world’s most important and influential characters. A number of these portraits are now held in the permanent collections of the The Royal Academy of Arts and The National Portrait Gallery, and have been exhibited there and at The Lowry Gallery, The Association of Photographers, The British Film Institute, The Royal Photographic Society, & The Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival in association with the National Portrait Gallery.

However, the projects which James is perhaps most proud of are his books. An example of these is best selling ‘The Last Few’, a collection of fascinating biographies and evocative portraits of the men who served in Britain’s definitive aerial conflict of World War Two - The Battle of Britain. These images document a crucial part of the nation’s history and have now all been included in The Royal Collection and in The Victoria and Albert Museum's National Art Library.

He also has a passion for historic alternative photographic processes, specialising in handmade Platinum and Palladium prints, along with Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes and 24ct Gold on Vellum photographs. In his dedicated workshop, he also designs and hand-builds bespoke 10x12 inch ultra large format plate cameras for various analogue processes.

James is represented by Saatchi Art

Clients include..

Time Magazine (US). Esquire. The Sunday Times Magazine. Moschino. Le Figaro (FR). MTV. The Telegraph Magazine. GQ. The Independent. The Financial Times. Digital Photography Magazine. The Daily Telegraph. Sport Magazine. The Big Issue. Reader's Digest. The Observer. News International. Design Week. The Guardian Magazine. Times Newspapers. Nikon Cameras, Ilford Photo, Virgin Records. Absolute Records (DE). Columbia Records. Parlophone. E-A-R Music (DE). Edsel Records. Polydor, BBC Pictures. Warner Bros Studios. ITV. Channel 4. Pinewood Studios (unit stills). The Royal Academy of Dance. Virago. Headline Publishing. Douglas House. The BookSeller. Harper Collins. Cicero/Gyldendal (DK). Titan Books. Sphere (Publishing). Harper Perennial. Little Brown Book Group. Simon & Schuster. Hachette. Samsung. American Express. Cadburys. Western Union. Green King. Tabasco. Douwe Egberts. Veetee. Shloer. Yazoo. The Kingfisher Group. Ruddles. Budgens. Sky Sports.

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James is a Photography Lecturer and Masterclass Tutor at the University for the Creative Arts - Canterbury.