ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Cat Woman was photographed on the back streets of Istanbul as part of my project "Undeclared" the forgotten people and places of Istanbul .

AUTHOR
James started photography using a camera made by his mother when she worked for Canadian Kodak. While learning Australian as a boy he started taking pictures of his brothers with kangaroos and never looked back. Despite working & fighting his way through the living industrial archaeology of Northern Ireland ( its factories & bars ) building cars in England ( Land Rover & Aston Martin ) and sleeping in strange countries with his faithful Rolleiflex and sciatica- inducing tripod.

He decided to study photography first in England (HND / BA Hons) and back home to Northern Ireland (MA / MPhil). His other talents include archivist of his long term empire of dirt (photography books and junk) while his unpublished memoirs in the form of poetry and graphic design continue to grow unabated. Recently a grandfather to Amelia he knows the value of staying up late, which he combines with the habit of watching only foreign subtitled movies and talking to strangers about photography. He has never been to Machu Picchu.

Today, James is a celebrated photographer with a wonderful breadth of subject matter and feeling. He has had dozens of shows and won many awards. His work is collected by intellectuals and critics, museum patrons and a few enlightened locals. Through 8 Publications he has published his two recent books, “Spectres of Place: Three Decades of Ulster Interiors”. and “Spectres of Trotsky : The Lost Interiors of an Exile”. His work is represented internationally in some very exotic (and not so exotic) places.

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