J.A. Lamont, M.Sc., October 2018
Jim Lamont is a photographer and custom photographic printmaker who founded PeregrinePrints in 2003, a company dedicated to working with photographers to make fine art quality prints at affordable prices. He has been teaching intermediate and advanced photographic printmaking with the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) since 2007, and taught a variety of courses with Henry’s from 2004 until 2018. Prints of his images are in private and corporate collections across North America and Australia. Many environmental organizations have used his images and prints in publicity campaigns and as gifts. The Canadian government has purchased dozens of his images as large prints for display in embassies and consulates around the world.
His primary photographic interest for several years has been the rediscovery of the Sublime in the context of global climate change.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Who do you say I am? Solo St. Paul University (scheduled)
2018 In Patagonia Solo* Atrium Gallery
2018 Hurricane 2-person Exposure Gallery
2017 Glacial Flows: Notes for a requiem Solo* Trinity Art Gallery
2017 SPAO at CONTACT Group Arta Gallery (Toronto)
2016 Home Truths Solo Vistek Gallery
2016 Point of View Group Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff)
2015 A Place Apart Solo* RedWall Gallery
2010 Spindrift Summits Solo Trinity Art Gallery
2004 Parables of Sunlight Focus Foyer Gallery
2004 Not for Ambition or Bread Solo Ottawa Press Club Gallery
2004 Small Adventures – II Solo Centrepointe Theatre Gallery
* Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Grant
Interview by Bruce Deachman of the Citizen, Spotlight (March, 2018):
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/spotlight-do-you-have-hope-for-your-children