A child of the South, I was born into a family of storytellers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I grew up listening to wild tales of life in North and South Carolina.
These stories left deep impressions of lush, imagined places. In some ways my photography is an effort to find the place of those images from another time. I walk, wander, talk to people and take pictures when they present themselves. That’s how I see anew some glimpses of those remembered landscapes. Time, memory and decay are veils that inspire me to look deeper. I enjoy uncovering the abstract and the graphic in the everyday.
BIO: Born in 1954, Jim Newbury studied drawing and painting at the University of South Carolina and later, graphic design, advertising and photography at Ringling School of Art. He had a distinguished career in the advertising industry winning hundreds of awards including a Public Service Announcement for CARE that was inducted into the permanent archive of The Modern Museum of Art in NYC. One of his photos was selected by Elisabeth Biondi and Peter Essick to be included in SlowExposures 2011. Jim has lived and traveled extensively in North and South Carolina, Florida, Texas and Georgia.
