New Release
VANCOUVER 100
Vancouver 100- a photography collection by James M. Wise, explores Canada’s premier Pacific coast city. Pender Street, Coal Harbour, Gastown, Yaletown, Granville Island, and Stanley Park, are just a few of the names that come to mind for those familiar with the city. The modern buildings provide for geometric subsets in photographic composition. The historic neighborhoods anchor the city in time. With previous experience taking and selecting one-hundred color photographs in Denver, Seattle, Lima, Santiago, Peru, and Chile, the work Vancouver 100 delivers a consistent style that both represents the city and the subject, and dismantles it into visual structural elements. For most places in the world, a single picture cannot embody the range of its nature. One-hundred photographs is perhaps the minimum and is still challenging to incorporate the maximum content of the subject area. The pictures selected in Vancouver 100 spans a decade of exploring the city, taking images through the seasons. If pictures are like raindrops then many comprise a storm- and it does rains in Vancouver.
– Vancouver, Canada’s desirable place to be.
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DENVER 100
Denver 100 photography collection represents a passion to illustrate the city’s characteristics while simultaneously giving my own interpretation through selective compositions. It captures numerous subjects throughout the year, taking time to witness the city during different seasons. This project began with wanting to explore Denver after having spent time living in its outskirts along the Front range near Red Rocks. Denver downtown was always something out east on the flat horizon. Taking 100 Denver pictures drove spending a lot of time downtown, walking many of the streets multiple times in the dawn, sunset, nighttime, in the summer heat and near zero temperatures in the winter. Denver 100 defines a clash of modern structures with historic buildings- a narrative of brick and glass. The photographs emphasize geometry, being aware of vanishing points, grids, and curves. This project is the fourth major city I have photographed in the 100 series, which is something that provides different themes and topics that comes with the city’s environment and history. Denver for several years has been a fastest growing city and top destination to move to in the USA, and the pictures in Denver 100 explains why it is the happening spot.
– Denver, the happening spot.
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LIMA 100
A collection of 100 photographs of Lima by James M. Wise, taken during years of extensive travels in Peru, illustrates this complex old city, revealing underappreciated building styles and street scenes that many visitors will not find while making a single trip to Peru’s capital. Colonial balconies of the historic old center that once was protected by a medieval wall, scattered Inca ruins, turn of the nineteenth century European-styled facades in an independent nation, and modern cement and glass apartments densely pack the broad arid coastal plain set upon the high clifftop overlooking the south Pacific. Lima is perhaps one of the more difficult cities in the world to photograph, given its near perpetual gray skies and ongoing security concerns. Cars in the congested traffic are prone to accelerate when coming across a pedestrian, or a photographer, and many in the population will stare at a foreigner taking pictures, sometimes with bad intent. Therefore, photographing the city is an exercise of speed, quick compositions, to move out of the street before being hit or not showing the camera in the crowds for any longer time than necessary. This photo collection brings order to chaos. Lima 100 assembles a broad suite of pictures from one of the more important metropolitan areas of South America, which I term:
– Lima, the old city of transitions.
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SEATTLE 100
Seattle 100 brings together a collection of one-hundred photographs to illustrate this west coast great city. The project emphasizes the city over people, and pays attention to compositions with geometry and contrasts. It gathers a wide suite of classic Seattle locations and structures, while following the photographic style I have used in other 100 series topics, including Peru, Chile, Lima, and Santiago. Compared to other cities that are current projects for additional 100 collections, Seattle was amazingly easy to photograph. This is part due to the spectacular setting of the city with its extensive waterfront and green surrounding forests, but also is because of its well-developed financial center with numerous urban themes that reflects the city being the northwest’s port to the Pacific.
– Seattle, port to the Pacific Northwest.
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PERU 100
Peru 100 is a collection of photographs taken from travelling in the country over nineteen years and represents a very in-depth knowledge of the country and culture. The pictures here include Andean scenery, coastal deserts, the steamy jungle, rain forests, mining settings, Inca ruins, and Colonial towns. This is the fourth topical photographic collection made by James M. Wise, who has 35 years of experience in outdoor photography.
– Peru, the land of endless discovery.
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CHILE 100
Chile 100 has representative pictures of the country, a photograph collection showing the dynamic landscape range of this remarkable country. From snow-capped volcanoes to the Atacama Desert, remote beaches to mines, and fishing villages to glaciers, the essence of Chile is on display. This is the third photography collection completed by James Wise. He first worked on Doors of South America with his wife Yani, and then made a book called Nevada Vision showing 150 pictures from the Silver State. Photography topics in Chile is absolutely rich and varied. These pictures in Chile 100 should inspire most with the desire to travel there and see the incredible landscapes.
– Chile, a geologist playground and wanderer’s dream.
SANTIAGO 100
Santiago 100 photography collection represents many aspects of Chile’s capital city, showing a range of modern building to historic structures. These pictures were taken while living in Santiago for two years, which provided the chance to see the city through the seasons and to understand the rhythms of Chilean society. Santiago is an enjoyable city, standing apart in character from all other South American cities.
– Santiago, metropolitan of the Andes.
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