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Wednesday 29th August 2012 | Osh
Jim Clarke, 21, a documentary photographer that often crosses over into portraiture and fashion.
Jim at 21 years old has accomplished an impressive amount that could teach an aspiring photographer a thing or two. After studying Photography at Bournemouth’s AUCB, he has gone on to work for remarkable companies including Vice Magazine, Tatler, Sunday Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller Magazine in Vogue House. Not bad for someone who graduated university just a few months ago.
Jim states that his career properly started in Fez, Morocco where he managed to get on an intensive artists workshop deep in the Medina with legendary photographer Anders Peterson. This shaped his unique style of connecting and photographing the weird and unusual artistic subcultures around him. This style Jim adopted caught the attention of Vice magazine which he then went on to intern and shot for their website. The time he spent at Vice included projects such as
After meeting some eccentric, shall we say, characters he was then given a job to work at London Fashion Week as an official photographer and got to shoot big-name-players Naomi Campbell and Kelis.
Jim focused on photographic bookworks at university, and had his own professional book published called ‘Hip-hop Honeys –and my Mother’ which had collections over his professional and private expenses. His snapshot colourful style landed Jim an internship at Sunday Telegraph Picture Desk & Conde Nast Travelling Magazine in Vogue House.
Jim is now about to start at Tatler Magazine but Is aiming towards more picture desk editor at a magazine and to have his photography shown in fine art galleries. His advice for you aspiring photographers? Be open to as much varied work experience and opportunities as possible. And get an iPhone, they make all the difference.
See Jim Clarke’s Photography at www.jimclarkephotography.co.uk
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