Background in Brief:
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Jim is a photographer for the Punta Gorda Symphony, the Southwest Florida Honor Flight and Florida Weekly News. He teaches in the field, with the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association and online with image makers who want to learn photography or cell phone shooting. Austin specialized in studio portraiture in the 1970s and 1980s, studied photo at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Rochester Institute of Technology before teaching photograph at University of Colorado. He is based on the West Coast of Florida.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Austin grew up in Colorado and lived in Kyoto, Japan and Stockholm, Sweden. Austin taught digital photography at Colorado University in the Department of Design and for the past two years has taught iPhonography online for a Provincetown, Cape Cod group. Since 2012, Jim has helped to fund education for youth in the Bahamas. He donates proceeds from books and calendar sales to relief efforts of The World Central Kitchen.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History displayed his print work as part of Nature's Best Competition. His dog Shanti taught him key lessons in how to see, and Jim wrote them into Dogwatch: Vision and Verité Of A Sailing Sighthound. Jim is one of the founders of the Slow Photography Movement and practices long form photography.
Austin's prints were exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, Loveland Art Museum, and National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The podcast Embrace The Grain interviewed him in 2020. Jim has photographed commercial landscape, portrait and art images with medium and large format film cameras, and currently works with Nikon D810, D800 and Nikon Z8 digital cameras.
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Jim is a photographer for the Punta Gorda Symphony, the Southwest Florida Honor Flight and Florida Weekly News. He teaches in the field, with the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association and online with image makers who want to learn photography or cell phone shooting. Austin specialized in studio portraiture in the 1970s and 1980s, studied photo at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Rochester Institute of Technology before teaching photograph at University of Colorado. He is based on the West Coast of Florida.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Austin grew up in Colorado and lived in Kyoto, Japan and Stockholm, Sweden. Austin taught digital photography at Colorado University in the Department of Design and for the past two years has taught iPhonography online for a Provincetown, Cape Cod group. Since 2012, Jim has helped to fund education for youth in the Bahamas. He donates proceeds from books and calendar sales to relief efforts of The World Central Kitchen.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History displayed his print work as part of Nature's Best Competition. His dog Shanti taught him key lessons in how to see, and Jim wrote them into Dogwatch: Vision and Verité Of A Sailing Sighthound. Jim is one of the founders of the Slow Photography Movement and practices long form photography.
Austin's prints were exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, Loveland Art Museum, and National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The podcast Embrace The Grain interviewed him in 2020. Jim has photographed commercial landscape, portrait and art images with medium and large format film cameras, and currently works with Nikon D810, D800 and Nikon Z8 digital cameras.