Royal Blue Apparel
Spring/Summer ’14For their Spring/Summer 2014 season James Jackson worked closely with members of the creative team at Royal Blue Apparel to continue to develop their brand image and lifestyle photography. These photographs were produced in NYC, NY as both location lifestlye and studio product shots to be used across multiple business lines including wholesale, catalog, and direct to consumer web.
Photography by James Jackson
Royal Blue Apparel
Fall/Winter ’13Royal Blue Apparel chose James Jackson to develop their brand image and execute lifestyle photography for the launch of their direct to consumer web site. Working closely with members of Royal Blue’s creative staff James produced and photographed a location lifestyle and studio product photography shoot in Brooklyn, NY
Photography by James Jackson
Head Candy
Spring Styling Look BookSpring ’13
Spring looks shoot for Head Candy Salon in Chery Hill, NJ
Hair Sytling:
Nicole Jackson
Rachel Kolifrath
Tara Lyons
Photography by: James Jackson
High Contrast
Makeup conceptSummer/Fall ’10
Conceptual makeup beauty shoot
Makeup & Hair: Casey Gouveia
Photography by: James Jackson
Bouldering Little Si
Summer/Fall ’10Location lifestyle and outdoor activity shoot at Little Si mountain near Seattle, Wa.
Photography by: James Jackson
Newsprint Concept
Summer/Fall ’10Conceptual fashion editorial shoot
Makeup & Hair: Casey Gouveia
Photography by: James Jackson
Lazy Sunday
Lingerie looksSpring ’10
Lifestyle fashion shoot
Photography by: James Jackson
Clothing: Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie
Prep Fashion
Spring/Summer ’08Lifestyle fashion shoot for startup clothing line
Stylist/Designer: Delton Harriston
Photography by: James Jackson
Seattle Raft & Kayak
Summer ’07Location lifestyle and outdoor activity shoot
Photography by: James Jackson
Living Sculpture
Beauty in decayThis series explores the concept of objectification. Often equated with misogyny and denounced by feminism, objectification may just be a natural part of life. People are things after all, and we make decisions on how we interact with them at a base level far beyond the control or influence of any "higher social order" we might personally subscribe to. At the same time if we give in to objectification in its purest sense, do we lose sight of the rest of our lives. Would someone who purchased women as objects of art have enough money to live in a comfortable environment or is it more likely that the indulgence would lead to discomfort on other levels?
Photography by: James Jackson
Motion Nudes
Beauty and life are always in motion, even those almost imperceptible movements of heart and mind occur constantly. This series documents the nude form, one of our most common subject matters, in motion. It often shows a contrast between what we’d like to see and what we can concentrate on.
Photography by: James Jackson
Blue Ribbon
A short series centered around a common object, a blue ribbon.
Photography by: James Jackson
Alt Variety July ’12
Alt Variety Magazine - altvariety.com chose James Jackson to illustrate an article on personality Davey Faye Jones.Photography by: James Jackson
OrigiVation April ’09
Origivation magazine chose James Jackson to put together the editorials for their first ever fashion issue. Published April 2009, the issue featured shoots done exclusively for OrigiVation of: Melora Creager, Muhsinah, Ruby Throat, Goodbye Etc., and Rivers Monroe.Photography by: James Jackson
Kramer Jewelry Fall ’08
Kramer Jewelry chose James Jackson to photograph their fall 08 fashion jewelry line. Published in Mainline Magazine to complement an editorial on the jewelers.Photography by: James Jackson
Bauman Rare Books
Bauman Rare Books publishes a quarterly catalog of their rare and unique items. Catalogs produced include photographs of hundreds of items shot in the in house studio in Center City Philadelphia by James and other staff photographers.Landscape photo shows
select imagesThe landscapes chosen for various art shows were produced between the years 2003 and 2005 in the United States within 100 miles of major metropolitan areas. The goal of the pastoral scenes is to remind us that even though we’ve progressed fast and far, there is still simple beauty within reach.
Photography by: James Jackson
Cityscape photo shows
select imagesTo offer a counterpoint to the pastoral landscapes, the Cityscape series were often shown in conjunction. Both series were produced as single run signed prints via archival process on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Both series are also still available for exhibition and sale.
Photography by: James Jackson
Seagull
EgoPo Classic Theatre Company chose James to be the technical director for director Lane Savadove's vision and Thom Weaver's design for this Philadelphia production of Seagull.Photographer: Dave Saffarian
Machinal
EgoPo Classic Theatre Company chose James to be the technical director for Brenna Geffers' vision and Thom Weaver's design for this Philadelphia production of Machinal.Photographer: James Jackson
The Women
EgoPo Classic Theatre Company chose James to be the technical director to travel this production of The Women in their co-production with the Rowan College theatre department.Photographer: James Jackson
Children's Hour
EgoPo Classic Theatre Company chose James to be the technical director to execute designer Markéta Trösterová-Fantová's design in this production of Children's Hour directed by Adrienne Mackey.Photographer: James Jackson
The Words Left Unsaid
Writer Alex Zinzopoulos chose James to deliver his vision and drive as a director for this independent dramatic series. In production, this creative series hopes to delight movie theater audiences in the next year.Director: James Jackson
A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical
Renegade Classic Theatre company chose James to provide lighting on this stylized take on A Prometheus BoundPhotography by: James Jackson
Mistaken Charity
Working with B.Someday Productions and Writer/Director Stan Heleva, James co-designed the lighting and stage managed for this new play based on the work of Mary E. WilkinsPhotography by: James Jackson
Missed Connections
James was chosen as a camera operator for Hater Free Productions’ charachter driven drama by writer/director Alex ZinzopoulosFreedom Club
American Theatre Magazine and New Paradise Laboratories chose James to provide still photos of Freedom Club, a creative endeavor of both New Paradise Laboratories and The Riot GroupPhotography by: James Jackson
Survive!
Operating the lighting for six rooms at the same time, James also provided Swim Pony Productions a few photos at the request of director Adrienne MackeyPhotography by: James Jackson
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Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, James Jackson is a freelance photographer specializing in lifestyle, editorial fashion, beauty, and commercial photography. James also services the west coast via Seattle, Wa. and the North East by way of New York City, NY. Photography as both an art form and a communications tool is more important in the age of digital and wireless than at any other time in history. We now increasingly turn to the instant reception of information allowed by the visual representation of thoughts and ideas rather than trying to communicate those same thoughts through words. Language barriers are easily overcome with images, and during this time of globalization, it is becoming a key issue to communicate through image effectively. It is the skill of photographers that allows this communication to happen and the talent of these artists to transmit a clear message. James Jackson has been communicating his message through photography since 1995 in a professional and artistic manner. Currently, James is expanding his portfolio with lifestyle, editorial fashion, and beauty photography, and is working with major fashion and catalog clients. James’ freelance photography experiences encompass both studio and location shooting. |
Royal Blue Apparel • Salon Head Candy • Touch Me Philly Productions • GDP Productions • B.Someday Productions • Spring International • BellosCogen • Soul Train Magazine • American Theatre Magazine • Berserker Residents • Black Mary Jane • Village Productions • Hater Free Productions • OrigiVation • Leslie Kramer • Lagos • Bauman Rare Books • Magazine Blu • Comcast SportsNet • American Cancer Society • Jack + Jill • J.E. Dougherty • Black Ink Inc • Lincolnmotorsport • NorthernHues • MiNX! Clothing Co • CJ’s Performance • Kimberlyn Parris • Lady J • Lydia Whitman • Monica Faulk • Sabrina West • Yalitza • Julee Will Sin • etc... James’ landscape and creative portfolios continue to grow and images from these portfolios are available for sale by contacting via telephone or email. |
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SINema After Hours (live theatre series) . Producer . Touch Me Philly, Light Thief, & B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . SINema After Hours heats up Films at The Fish's late night with an ongoing series of live hosted Horror and Adult themed films! Courtly Lust – A King Arthur Burlesque . Lighting Designer . GDP Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Join King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, and the other knights of the round table as they attempt to navigate an ancient world of wisdom, honour, and love both courtly and kinky. Films at The Fish . Producer . Light Thief Productions & B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . film series presenting locally sourced, independently produced films at the Walking Fish Theatre in the variety format. Blood Kegger on Monster Party Island . Technical Director . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Written by Max Guerin . Mad scientist, Dr Paulina, and her faithful hunchback sidekick, Clurb create Man/Fish at their lab on Monster Party Island. He escapes at the same time that the popular video series “Drunk Girls Who’ve Signed Releases” arrives to film. Additionally, Dr Paulina double booked the island with the most awesome frat boy kegger of the year. Hi-jinks ensue! ArkHIVE . Technical Director . Whitebox Theatre Productions . Historical Society of Pennsylvania . For a weekend in April, the library at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania was transformed through the imagination of performance artist Sebastienne Mundheim. High Dramma April Show . Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound) . Walking Fish Theatre . Fishtown's most irreverent, energetic sketch comedy troupe. Criminal Genius . Technical Director . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Written By George F. Walker . Rolly and Stevie, a father and son crime team, have recently made a vow to do crime non-violently. Shirley, their boss, wants them to burn down a restaurant. Instead they kidnap Amanda, the chef. Amanda’s father Mike, the crime boss, who hired Shirley in the first place is really mad. Can anybody get out of Room 5 alive? Skindiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Harlot . Lighting Designer . GDP Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Ultimate heart-throb, Skindiana Jones – educator, archeologist, Nazi-hunter – goes on a quest around the seedy, scantily clad underbelly of the world in search of the holiest of treasures. UPdown . Director/Executive Producer/Cinematographer (film) . Light Thief Productions . On Saturn's moon Titan, a city's infrastructure is crumbling. When the government doesn't know how to fix things it chooses to move people. This is one little boy's story of what happened in his UPdown they day the social worker came to move his family. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson . Electrician . Plays & Players . directed by Plays & Players’ Producing Artistic Director Daniel Student. The Early Adventures of Santa Claus - a Yuletide Burlesque . Lighting Designer . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Based on the seldom told story by L. Frank Baum, comes a Santa unlike any you’ve ever met. Burlesque Adventures of Santa Claus – Promo commercial . Director/Cinematographer/Producer (film) . Light Thief Productions & B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Commercial shorts for promotion of upcoming show High Dramma December Show . Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound) . Walking Fish Theatre . Fishtown’s most irreverent, energetic sketch comedy troupe. Puppet Pandemic . Technical Designer (Lights/Sound/Projection) . Puppet Manualfesto, B. Someday Productions & Puppet Slam Network . Walking Fish Theatre . Puppet Manualfesto celebrates short form puppetry and features experimental pieces to encourage artists not generally involved with puppetry as well as seasoned professionals to explore this exciting medium. Problem Child . Lighting Designer . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Written By George F. Walker . Denise and RJ moved into Room 5 at the Suburban Motel from the small town where they were trying to clean up their drug-ravaged lives. A Study In Pink – The Sherlock Holmes Burlesque . Lighting Designer . GDP Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . An evening in the Holmesian tradition of intrigue, allure, and addiction. The Five Minute Follies September Show . Technical Designer (Sound/Lights) . Adrienne Theatre . FiveMinuteFollies.com . Keeping the Spirit of Vaudeville and Variety Alive in Philadelphia 3 Wishes . Lighting Designer . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . A World Premiere By Ari Flamingo . A Philadelphia Fringe Fest production . It’s all about heaving bosoms, delayed gratification, a mysterious janitor and what happens under the dying tulip poplar in the park. Franklin Mint President’s Collection . Board Op/Electrician (film) . Board operator and electrician for television commercial . Sincbox Media Prince Music Theatre Overhire . Electrician . Specialty equipment installation High Dramma July Show . Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound) . Walking Fish Theatre . Fishtown’s most irreverent, energetic sketch comedy troupe. PGMC Legacy Concert . Electrician . Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus . Prince Music Theatre The End Of Civilization . Assistant Director, Lighting Designer, Technical Designer (Sound/Projection) . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Written By George F. Walker . Henry needs a job. Lily, his wife wants to help him find one. But Sandy, the neighbor, has plans to help Lily make some big bucks. Here come Max and Donny, two cops on the case. Why do all the factories that Henry applies to blow up? Featuring Loretta . Assistant Director, Lighting Designer, Technical Designer (Sound/Projection) . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . Written By George F. Walker . Loretta is young, beautiful and in need of a lot of money. Enter Michael, aspiring pornographer who wants to hire her. But Dave wants to protect Loretta, or maybe star in the film with her. Then there’s Sophie, whose ex-KGB father runs the motel. She wants to change Loretta’s mind. What will Lorrie do? Il Postino . Electrician . Center City Opera Theatre . Prince Music Theatre Women of Fire and Blood . Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound/Projection) . Naked Feet Productions & B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . A one-woman powerhouse of a show, one actress plays eleven different characters in this intense, forceful and passionate performance. End Of The World Burlesque . Master Electrician/Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound/Projection/Rigging) . B. Someday Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . A fun filled romp through the end of the world. La Boheme . Electrician . Center City Opera Theatre . Prince Music Theatre High Dramma March Show . Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound) . Walking Fish Theatre . Fishtown’s most irreverent, energetic sketch comedy troupe. We Need Your Support (A PBS Burlesque) . Master Electrician/Technical Designer (Lighting/Sound/Projection) . GDP Productions . Walking Fish Theatre . The time has come again for the annual Public Burlesque System’s Valentine’s Day Spectacular Fund Drive. Money and Enough & Yes to Live and Love . Master Electrician/Sound Designer . Dette Glashouwer . Walking Fish Theatre – Philadelphia . TheatreLab – New York . Double billed one woman show on the economy, life, love, and saying YES! Un Viaje - A Christmas Journey . Master Electrician/Sound Designer . B. Someday Productions Paris Wheels and the Ready Maids . Lighting Designer . White Box Theatre Hella Fresh Fish 3.0 . Stage Manager . B. Someday Productions A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical . Lighting Designer . Renegade Classic Theatre . Adaptation/Direction: Michael Durkin . The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse - A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical riffs on Aeschylus’ classic work by setting it in 1930’s Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl Era. Mistaken Charity . Stage Manager/Lighting Co-Designer . B. Someday Productions . Writer/Director: Stan Heleva . Walking Fish Theatre – the endearing adventures of two elderly, impoverished and handicapped women who are forced from their home by “well-meaning” neighbors and get ticked off! Annihilation Point . Lighting Designer . Berserker Residents . Abrons Arts Center – Sci-fi comedy theater A Christmas Carol . Lighting Designer . Village Productions . Tri County Performing Arts Center – Broadway Musical version Missed Connections . Camera Operator . Hater Free Productions . Director/Writer: Alex Zinzopoulos – A character driven feature film about love and relationships Lynch Quietly . Technical Designer (projection, lighting, cinematography) . Director: Michael LeLand - An interdisciplinary piece blending dance, movement, video, historical text, and fictional characters written by Marc Miller in to an exploration of human nature and group dynamics Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act . Lighting Designer . DysFUNctional Theatre - A play about apartheid era South Africa maintains its relevance by exploring private lives and public morals through askance light and deeply introspective dialogue Survive! . Light board operator . Swim Pony Productions . Director Adrienne Mackey - A never before seen theatrical experience spanning six rooms and over 2000 sq. ft. HONK! . Lighting Designer . Village Productions . Tri County Performing Arts Center - Musical production with a cast of 30 Rip The Runway fashion show . Lighting & Stage Designer . Jo’Ni Modelz Inc - Runway fashion competition & show at Benjamin Franklin High School Three Mothers of Zachary . Lighting Designer . Center Voices . Writer/Director Shareef Hadid Jenkins - Production for the Philadelphia GLBT Artist Festival The Company . Lighting Designer . Sweetbread Studios - 48 hour film festival entry filmed at Studio 5 South. Hugging The Shoulder . Sound Designer & Technician . Represented Theatre Company . Director: Bill Egan - a Philadelphia premier of a new play by Jerrod Bogard produced at Walnut Street Theatre’s Studio 5. Sidewalk Cafe . Sound Designer & Technician . Represented Theatre Company . Director: Darnelle Radford - produced at Walnut Street Theatre’s Studio 5. Pom Pom Saves The Day . Lighting Designer & Technician . Laurel House Domestic Abuse Shelter with Vagabond Acting Troupe and Center Theatre . Director: Aileen McCulloch - Abuse prevention short film A Priest Walks Into a Bar . Technical Designer (Lighting & Sound) . Vagabond Acting Troupe . Direction by: Aileen McCulloch, Summer Steele, Kristen Gleason - Skit satire theater production Rip The Runway fashion show . Lighting & Stage Designer . Jo’Ni Modelz Inc - Runway fashion competition & show at Benjamin Franklin High School Rip The Runway fashion show . Lighting & Stage Designer . Sayer Community School Beacon Program and Jo’Ni Modelz Inc - Runway fashion competition & show at Sayer High School   Gallery Shows: Cafe Loftus CC - April/May ’06 - Figure Study Drizzle - December ’05 - Landscape and Portrait Queue - October ’05 - Landscape and Portrait L’Hexagone - August ’05 - Landscape Cafe Loftus - July ’05 - Landscape and Portrait |
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