JIM CHAMBERS Face & Place Sept 13 – Nov 10, 2024
In 1967, Jim Chambers was working as a steel company draughtsman and making photographs in his parents’ basement on Hamilton mountain. He entered and won a Hamilton Spectator photo contest, and subsequently the same photograph (“The Best Man”) won second prize and $4,000 in the National Geographic’ National Snap-shot Contest. He quit his job, bought a colour TV for his parents, new Nikon camera equipment, and sucessfully applied to McMaster University as a mature student. He worked at the Royal Ontario Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario and taught at Humber College. He was a founding member of Toronto Photographers Workshop (TPW), and co-director, with Colleen O’Reilly, of James North Artists Collective.
“Thank you, Jim Chambers. so good to see your work – important work that honours our hood – the life in our beloved Hammer.” M.L “Rich photos, Rich Life!” M.P. “Loved reading your “origin” story at the front. Inspiring and a reminder that small moments can change everything. Keep taking photos and capturing humanity in all its iterations.” L.M.
Regina Haggo’s Spec review, Nov. 10/24 https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/jim-chambers-hasn-t-lost-his-passion-for-photographing-people/article_9ad8993e-c127-5409-b3ab-3fc08f3c2fe8.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
Introductory remarks by Sam Cartmell and Phil Hoffmann.