J.A. Lamont, M.Sc., February 2023
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. The Canadian government has purchased hundreds of his images as large prints for display in embassies and consulates around the world. In 2022 the City of Ottawa purchased two of his prints from his Communion series for their permanent collection. Many environmental organizations have used his images and prints in publicity campaigns and as gifts.
In 2022 one of his photographs won The 2022 Natural Landscape Photograph of the Year, tying for first place with a photograph from Austria. Also in 2022 one of his panoramas received a Silver Award in Epson's International Panorama Contest, with a score of 84%. In 2021 two of his images received scores over 80% in the International Landscape Photographer of the year Awards.
His primary photographic interest for many years has been the rediscovery of the Sublime in the context of global climate change.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023** DAZZLED! Images from Iceland Solo Atrium Gallery
2022 METAMORPHOSIS Group Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery
2020 Cold Smoke Solo Exposure Gallery
2019 Arctic Dreams Solo Green Door Photo Space
2019 Who do you say I am? Solo St. Paul University
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
** re-scheduled several times since 2020 due to COVID; now cancelled
INVITED TALKS
2021 One for the books RA Photo Club (virtual)
2019 Spirituality and Photography: A personal journey St. Paul University
2019 The poetry of tonality: Thoughts on black and white photography RA Photo Club
2019 Slow Photography: Making photographic prints RA Photo Club
2018 In the storm Lanark County Camera Club
2018 Views of Italy World Views, Ottawa
2017 Glacial Flows: Thoughts on glaciers in art Trinity Art Gallery
2015 A Place Apart: Some thoughts on mountains, photography, and art School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO)
PRESS
"Jim Lamont: Portrait of a Photographer" by Matt Payne, OnLandscape, Issue 273 (March 2023) www.onlandscape.co.uk
"AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW THE FRAGILITY OF THE NATURAL WORLD" by Jacopo Prisco, CNN (November 18, 2022)
"OOE ARTIST FEATURE: ACTIVISM THROUGHT ART" by Tanis Browning-Shelp, Mainstreeter (December 2022)
short writeup in Citizen at end of Bruce Deachman's Local News column (Nov.2022): https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/deachman-tornadoes-wildfires-and-survival-oh-my-algonquin-students-offer-life-saving-tips
"OOE ARTIST FEATURE: JIM LAMONT’S PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURE CLIMATE CHANGE, INSPIRE ACTION " by Tanis Browning-Shelp, Mainstreeter (February 2021)
http://www.mainstreeter.ca/?wpfb_dl=112
"Meet Jim Lamont" by Rielly Riggs, Neighbors of Old Ottawa
Interview by Bruce Deachman of the Citizen, Spotlight (March, 2018) http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/spotlight-do-you-have-hope-for-your-children
"Glacier exhibit warns of fading beauty — and rising seas" by CHRISTIAN PAAS-LANG https://cusjc.ca/bootcamp/o-zone/glacier-exhibit-warns-of-fading-beauty-and-rising-seas/
Review of A Place Apart exhibition, by Raymond Aubin in apt613.ca (August, 2015) https://apt613.ca/a-place-apart-a-photo-exhibition-by-jim-lamont/