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[medium_title title=”As a commercial photographer it is my ambition to ensure your business is being represented to the highest standard.”]
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[medium_title title=”Work created for a select number of clients.”]
[small_title title=”ABOUT ME”]
Photography became a passion of mine at an early age. I was fascinated by the idea that a single moment, the emotions and actions within it, could be captured forever. As a keen cyclist at the time I started photographing my friends riding and the landscapes I saw on my mobile phone.
This led me to my first camera purchase at the age of 16, a secondhand Samsung dSLR from a friend, I photographed everything I could, parked cars, plants in the garden, everything and anything. A few years later I decided to study Business and Marketing at the University of Lincoln, I had realised the photography industry is tough so decided it was a door I’d have to open later on in life.
During my third year of studying I had a placement year at the The Lift Agency, a specialist marketing agency based in Harrogate, there I worked as an account manager, liaising with clients and briefing designers, here I realised the importance of translating a vision into a physical product, I felt fantastic seeing a clients dream come to reality. Here I started my first foray into professional photography, I photographed for websites, packaging and even Mark Cavendish at an event.
I left after my placement and started working for Audi UK photographing their stock cars for their website. It was a task previously left to sales people and the quality varied wildly, I spoke to my managers and set up a plan to take vehicles off site and bring out their true elegance as the constraints of a dealership do not show off car design well. The success of this had been noted by various top level managers and led to an article being published about my work which was distributed to all Audi dealerships.
At the start of 2016 I decided to set up on my own, having undertaken various freelance work while employed at Audi I decided to work for myself and explore my own clients. My passion with cars remains but what I really enjoy is capturing a clients idea, product or service, and making the end result something they could never have expected.
[blockquote author=”Annie Leibovitz – Portrait Photographer ” ]“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.”[/blockquote]
[small_title title=”SELECTED CLIENTS”]
[small_title title=”I am an active person”]
[medium_title title=”I find there is nothing worse than being stuck indoors all day, so name the location, weather, and subject, I will be there.”]
[small_title title=”WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING”]
[blockquote author=”Keith Loveday – AUDI UK” ]“James was both artistic and passionate about both the brand and his photography”[/blockquote]
[small_title title=”Get IN TOUCH”]
[small_title title=”It would be great to have another happy client!”]