The Short

Hi I’m Jim Lind, a digital artist and creative problem solver. I’m also the creative director for HOWL, a traveling photo collective. This website serves as a home to my personal and commercial portfolios.

The Long

It's quite easy to latch onto your childhood to help describe the person you've become, and for me it's no different. I grew up in the most entrepreneurial homestead ever. My dad founded two churches, my mom started a life coaching business, my eldest brother launched a web design site and a clothing line, while my middle brother formed a movie production company. So naturally I was taught at a young age to “do what you love and love what you do.” With these words of wisdom I gravitated towards drawing as I was fascinated with what could be created by hand. That fascination never left, as some of my fondest memories involve sketching in my bedroom into the wee hours of the night.

Ultimately, I was drawn into photography through my dad, who would carry around an old 35mm Nikon documenting our family antics with his keen eye and quick trigger finger. As digital photography started to take off in the early 2000's we bought him a whopping two megapixel digital camera for Christmas. Fortunately for me it spent most of its time unused, so I quickly snatched it up and have been enamored with all aspects of image making ever since. This new digital world allowed me to better represent my ideas that I couldn’t quite relate onto paper or find in reality.

After pursuing these interests in college, I graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design, and moved to New York City with my girlfriend (now wife) and a strong desire to hit the ground running. Luckily I was taken in by the studio of Annie Leibovitz where I was quickly exposed to the intriguing world of post production. From there I became involved with her retoucher Pascal Dangin, owner of Box Studios and powerhouse in the retouching industry. In its heyday the studio would churn out one campaign after another for the iconic fashion brands. This allowed me to retouch for seasoned photographers like Steven Klein, Paulo Roversi, and Mario Sorrenti under brands such as Gucci, Dior, and Prada. With a solid understanding of beauty and fashion editing, I left to head up the post production department at Blank, a boutique retouching house that has since merged with another studio. This allowed me to manage a team of retouchers while working directly with the photographers on set and in post. From there I left to pursue the title of creative lead for TaylorJames, a creative post production studio that partnered with commercial photographers like Andy Glass and Platon alongside ad agencies like Publicis, BBDO and Saatchi. Here I honed my style more tightly as I got to work on advertising projects much more in line with my personal style and taste for the dramatic. By 2015, I decided it was time to spread my wings as a creative image maker seeking out projects that continue to challenge and inspire.

Even to this day, I hold strongly to the belief that each person is made up of the stories they tell. For that specific reason, I feel compelled to share my stories with anyone and everyone whenever possible. Whether they are real, somewhat real, or entirely made up, the images explore the realities and fantasies that govern my life. I find they often evoke narratives that are deeply rooted in my most visceral experiences. Other times, they are simply created to visually express my thoughts, much in the same way an author does with a book. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a great picture escapes words and enters into the imagination.

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