Felicity Huffman
Looking through Jim’s scrapbook of photos is an experience all
on its own. From the moment you first turn the page, you know
that you are in for a ride. With the tagline “Taste It All” on the
first page, one catches the first glimpse of the man behind the
lens; a snapshot of the photographer himself as an artist. The
photographs are seemingly random yet deliberate. There is an
engagement of the senses. When pain is photographed the
photos are so good you can almost feel it. A photo of Jeremy
Irons smoking lingers with the scent of second hand smoke.
You can almost hear the strum of the guitars captured by his lens.
Though extremely humble, Jim notes that, “it’s just an ongoing
documentation of what’s going on in my life.”
Even though he has shot a number of famous faces, and many
while they were on the cusp of making it big, Jim admits he
really only felt he had come into his own when he did a shoot
with Jay-Z. “It was his people who had requested me. And that
has been happening more and more recently, so that’s been a
weird thing.”
There is nothing weird about success, no matter how humble the
photographer or artist. And that is what makes Jim Wright,
“Jim Wright.” And that itself is picture perfect.
Jacinda Barrett