Geoffrey James was born in Wales and read Modern History at Oxford before moving to Canada. Active as a photographer since 1970, he is the author of nine books and monographs on such diverse subjects as the Italian garden, the asbestos-mining region of Quebec, the Mexican-American border at Tijuana and the changing face of Paris. Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited in major international shows on three continents and is in public collections in North America and Europe. In 2002, he received both the Roloff Beny Book Award for his book Paris and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. He lives in Toronto.
