Hi, I'm James Barcelona, a film photographer.

It's an odd choice to still shoot film in the age of digital, but here are some pros & cons for you:

Cons:

• No instant turn around, but I can guarantee same day for morning assignments.
• No social media previews, but hey, everybody's got a phone, so I can do the previews there.

Pros:

• Those film tones. Check out this hashtag: #LeicaLosers
• Models will feel more comfortable. Keira Knightley says that film photographers 'have the ability to see the person.'
• Less to edit mean more time for you. Lower volume but we aim for higher quality shots.
• Film negatives are an archival format that lasts centuries given the right storage conditions. We still have the earliest photos but many photos from the 1990s on Zip or floppy disks are prohibitively expensive to recover or irrecoverable.

I am also the author of The Betrayers (2018), a free to download, photo book about betrayal and friendship on social media. I also created the zine, Is Anything Real Anymore?, a photographic tone poem and meditation on reality covering different states and cities in the US. It's available from my online store. I am also first photographer to have led and organized over 30+ photowalks for different brands and organizations in a single year (2013). I am also the first photographer to bring a strong Heideggerian approach to photography. In 2013, I was an ArtPadSF exhibitor for a black and white photo of Pier 14 called The Sentinel.

In November of 2014, I hiked around Iceland to focus on landscape photography.

In 2015, I worked on a series of street photographs, The San Franciscans. It is a study of innocence cast adrift in a selfish, self-obsessed society where lives can be thrown away without a backward glance ... and any notions of friendship and loyalty are meaningless.

I created #HiddenPostcardSF an Interactive and In Real Life game where I hide photographs in San Francisco and provide clues on where to find them on Instagram and Snapchat.

I am available for travel, lifestyle, and landscape photography. Inquire for rates.

barce@bracketthis.com