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JAMIE JAMES

PHOTOGRAPHER

They/Them

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JAMIE JAMES

They/Them

I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER LIVING ON STOLEN LAND

My work is driven by a deep desire to form meaningful connections and ongoing personal relationships, exploring the ways us humans share memory, make culture, and find identity and belonging.

Over the last thirty years of social documentary practice I have created an extensive visual archive in collaboration with my shared Queer, First Nations and South Sea Islander communities, creating a unique archive of our times, which spans analogue and digital shifts in the industry, and crosses the millennium. I am a white fella with strong ties to the Mindjunbul peoples, Bundjulung Nation in Northern NSW.

Most recently in 2018 and again in 2023, the State Library of NSW’s Indigenous Acquisitions Unit acquired 200 selected images from my archive for their collection.

My work has been exhibited and published internationally, and at home, and I have been selected as a finalist in the Olive Cotton Portrait Award 2023, Australian Life Photographic Prize 2018 and 2023, the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize 2007 and 2015, Moran Photographic Prize 2014 and a highly commended finalist for the Sydney Life Photographic Prize 2009.

I was co-producer, with photographer Roslyn Sharp, of the popular annual multimedia documentary event Cross Projections 2006-2013, invited to the judging panel for Head On International Photo Festival 2011-2015, and 2023.

Currently I am exhibiting at the State Library of NSW as part of the 50th Anniversary NSW Koori Knockout exhibition until August 2023, (touring regionally in 2023-2024) and Pride (R) evolution, until July 2023.

Exhibitions are also showing for Liberate, Customs House, Sydney, until July 2023 and The Party, UNSW Galleries, COFA, School of Art and Design, Paddington, closing April 2023.

Head On International Photo Festival in 2019 (Queerdom), 2021 (Humans being) and for Sydney World Pride in 2023, with exhibitions, artist talks and a book titled “Humans being.” Thirty Years of Queer Performance, Published by Clouds of Magellan Press, Melbourne, Australia.

What I do

Longitudinal social documentary projects
State and Federal Government and Royal Commission image libraries in the health and education sectors, supporting First Nations, CALD, Disabled and LGBTIQ+ communities
Community model sourcing and casting for government campaigns
Theatre, live music and performance
Video for socials and online campaigns
Workshops / teaching for youth at risk through behaviour management schools and juvenile justice
Artist talks and judging panels.

Collections, Acquisitions and Exhibitions

SHOT State Library of NSW until Oct 2024
I AM… an ongoing visibility project in collaboration with trans men and masc non-binary identified community
Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture finalist 2023
Australian Life Photographic Prize, finalist 2023 and 2018, finalist Highly Commended 2009
State Library of NSW  Indigenous Acquisitions Unit  2018, 2020, 2022, 2023
UNSW Galleries COFA Sydney The Party 2023
Head On International Photo Festival Sydney 2019, 2021, 2023
Customs House, Sydney 2010, 2023
National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize, finalist 2007 2015
Chroniques Australiennes, City of Montpellier, France 2006, 2008

Archive

I have an extensive archive that crosses the millennium and covers 30 plus years of collaborative photographic practice. Get in touch to discuss your needs.

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Contact

jamesphotographicservices@gmail.com