Photo Award of Excellence

James is thrilled to share news of winning the 2024 Canadian Architect Photo Award of Excellence. The prestigeous prize is awarded once a year by Canadian Architect magazine, Canada’s national magazine of record for architecture.

The photogaph shows the interior of École du Zénith designed by Montreal’s Pelletier de Fontenay. Located at the foot of Mount Shefford in Québec, the school is part of an experimental collection curated by Lab-École, an initiative launched in 2019 to review and explore the way primary schools are designed in Quebec.

Rammed Earth House

Tuckey Design Studio has commissioned James to record the completion of its highly anticipated Rammed Earth House - a pioneering new home in Wiltshire using one of the most extensive applications of the rammed earth building method ever undertaken in the UK.

New commission: École du Zénith

Canada’s Pelletier de Fontenay has commissioned James to photograph an innovative new primary school near Montreal.

École du Zénith is the latest in a series of new schools curated by Lab École - an experimental architecture program launched in 2019 to review the way primary schools are designed and built in Quebec.    

new commission: The Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace

James has been commissioned to make a series of new photographs showing The Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. The new photographs are part of an ongoing collaboration to record Britain’s royal palaces on behalf of the curatorial charitable trust Historic Royal Palaces.

Canadian Architect Photo Award of Excellence

James is thrilled to share news of winning a 2023 Canadian Architect Photo Award of Excellence. The award was announced earlier this week by Canadian Architect, the national magazine of record for architects across Canada.
The picture was made at CAPO, a house overlooking the Saint Lawrence River in eastern Quebec, Canada, designed by Montreal's Atelier Carle.

new commission: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has commissioned James to photograph its latest residential project in Canada.

The cube shaped guest house is set on a remote rocky outcrop on Nova Scotia’s beautiful south shore - and forms part of an exciting larger project underway at the site.

New commission: Wilkinson Eyre Architects

The UK’s Wilkinson Eyre Architects has commissioned James to make a new series of images at CIBC Square in Toronto - a major mixed use development with two tall towers and a transport hub located in the heart of the city’s downtown core.

New commission: Jonathan Tuckey Design

James has recently completed a series of new projects in collaboration with Jonathan Tuckey Design.

These include Wool Hall, an exquisite remodelling of the former home and recording studio of artist Van Morrison.

RIBA National Award for Blackbird

Blackbird, a house James has photographed on behalf of British architects Nick Lyons and Hamish Herford, has won a 2023 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) National Award.

The house sits in an area of outstanding natural beauty in the English Cotswolds.

New commission: La Tour de Montréal

James is thrilled to have been asked to photograph a new observation tower situated in the port of Montreal.

The tower embraces the language of the industrial vernacular architecture of Montreal’s old port - steel cranes, loading towers, grain lifts and silos. A cantilevered observation deck at level 12 offers expansive and generous views of the city’s historic quarter and the downtown core.

The photographs have been commissioned by architects Provencher Roy.

New publication: Architectural Review

James is very pleased to have a series of photographs published in the April issue of the UK’s The Architectural Review.

The pictures are from a collaboration with Montreal’s Pelletier de Fontenay and Berlin’s Kuehn Malvezzi to illustrate the new Montreal Insectarium.

Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for photography

James is excited to share news of receiving the 2022/23 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for photography.

The national award is given once a year in Canada, in recognition of outstanding photography of architecture.

The jury commented: “There is an aura of mystery encompassing this image. The scene is very cinematic, with its characters in action and the fog that gently envelops the whole space. Something seems about to happen! The building rises like a character too. And then, the balance between the colours is just perfect.”

2022 US Architecture Masterprize Awards

James is thrilled to share news of receiving three new awards for photography in this year’s international Architecture Masterprize, including the top ‘Best of the Best’ award for his work at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland.

The awards program is based in Los Angeles in the US, and celebrates excellence in photography of architecture from around the world. The awards were given for his work in three main categories - cultural interior, commercial exterior and residential exxterior.