Background in Brief:
Born in Portland, Oregon, Austin grew up in Colorado and lived in Kyoto, Japan and Stockholm, Sweden. He began his photographic career by specializing in studio portraiture in the 1970s. Jim studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Denver University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Since 2021, Austin has worked as a freelance photographer for Florida Weekly, a West Coast Florida newspaper.
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 Bahamas' youth, as the proceeds from his books and calendar sales are donated to education.
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 shaped them into the book Dogwatch: Vision and Verité Of A Sailing Sighthound. His photographs appear in 5 other books.
Jim's photographs have also been 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. Austin has photographed commercial, portrait, wedding, nature and news assignments, and is one of the founders of the Slow Photography Movement. He calls himself "a photographer."
Born in Portland, Oregon, Austin grew up in Colorado and lived in Kyoto, Japan and Stockholm, Sweden. He began his photographic career by specializing in studio portraiture in the 1970s. Jim studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Denver University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Since 2021, Austin has worked as a freelance photographer for Florida Weekly, a West Coast Florida newspaper.
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 Bahamas' youth, as the proceeds from his books and calendar sales are donated to education.
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 shaped them into the book Dogwatch: Vision and Verité Of A Sailing Sighthound. His photographs appear in 5 other books.
Jim's photographs have also been 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. Austin has photographed commercial, portrait, wedding, nature and news assignments, and is one of the founders of the Slow Photography Movement. He calls himself "a photographer."