JAMES BARTHOLOMEW: BIOGRAPHY

I was born in New York City in 1960, and lived in Boston for five years. Moving between London and the eastern US for my formative years provided me with an independent interpretation of culture that is a godsend to a photographer.

My Dad bought me a Russian Zenith 35mm SLR camera when I was 12, and I’m basically self-taught as a photographer, except for degree studies with Parson’s School of Design in New York in the early 80s. In 1984 I came back to London, and while working as a photographic consultant for a London Agency, discovered Kew Gardens for the first time, and fell in love with it. I published three photography books in my first three years as a photographer, between 1998 and 1991: “The Magic of Kew’, ‘The City of London’, and ‘Inside the Tower’.

For over twenty years, I’ve worked with London Graphic Designers, but In 2004 I started my own Photography School at David Game College, under the brand ‘Image Workshops’. I’ve expanded this to the stage where I have other teachers working at my Photography School, and run a very wide range of successful courses at several London venues and with private clients.

Teaching people photography and inspiring their creativity, while shooting stock and my own projects and commissions, are the best options in a changing world.