Jim Chamberlain - Societies Honorary Fellow
To celebrate Jim's election as an Honorary Fellow of the Societies, Dave
Newman fswpp, a close friend, writes the following tribute. All images are
by Jim Chamberlain.
While
operating a very active wedding and society studio in Boston, doctors
informed Jim of a necessary operation and hip replacement. Jim decided to
use his recovery time to master Photoshop in the late 1980s and change his
direction. Among his friends and professional groups in Boston, and later in
New Jersey, he soon became known as the Photoshop 'Answer Man'…with folks
calling him daily with their questions and issues.
Travelling widely, as a habit, he began to load his files with stunning
travel art. After the second hip replacement and a timely move to sunny
Naples, Florida, with his wife Liz, he began working a well-designed outdoor
art show booth to tantalise the crowds in his new area of Florida. Art shows
and cheese and wine events flourished in his new USA setting. Using his own
Nik Filter concoction and a wide-format inkjet printing system from Epson,
he rapidly became a photo-design and decor artist and a highly recognised
expert in southern Florida. Many of the shows he is part of do not feature
any other photographers since his work is indeed, considered 'Art'. His
8x10-foot size, portable show booth is a marvellous (or better stated,
ingenious) put-together of delightful fresh-air display. His prices are
often double that of his competitors based on the simple business fact that
folks don't appreciate cheap art for their stunning Florida vacation homes.
He works with realtors and decorators providing complete room-to-room works
of photographic art, culminating in thousands of dollars in sales, comprised
mostly of reminiscent-type images of the travels of the wealthy. Venice,
Tuscany, Provence, Paris and London are themes and best sellers for the
pre-framed, wall-size photographs he presents to the clients via booth
viewing, catalogues or websites. He often calls me (his old buddy Dave) to
boast of giant, daily sales numbers. After each show, he returns to his
home, workshop-studio, to print, assemble and freshen up art pieces for his
next showing. During the winter months, he participates in lots of annual
art shows. Few photographers have turned health situations into such a
successful financial outcome. Few photo-artists can boast of such stunning
sales of fine art, travel images.
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