Jim Hall

Jim Hall worked as a lawyer in Regina until retiring in 2015. In 2017 he returned to the University of Regina enrolling in classes over the next four years in photography, film, art history and photojournalism.

 

Jim’s initial interest in photography began in the early 1970s with the purchase of an Olympus OM1 35mm camera, shooting black and white and colour slide film. With work and a family, photography was put on hold until retirement when he purchased a Nikon digital camera and reignited his interest in street and landscape photography. Since then he has also started shooting black and white film again with the Olympus and hopefully with an assortment of other film cameras he has recently acquired. Artistic influences include Susan Sontag, Dorothea Lange, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Margaret Bourke-White.

 

Besides photography Jim’s other passions are travel (recent trips include Romania in 2019 and eastern Europe in 2015), xcountry skiing, motorcycling in Western Canada and the US, and driving his 2012 Mustang 5.0.

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He writes:

The most enjoyable part of the cyanotype course for me was using some of my favourite digital images and creating prints from them. Converting a colour image into a black and white negative and then printing it as a cyanotype presents unique challenges, requiring lots of trial and error to obtain a good print. Personally, I found properly preparing the paper with the light-sensitive chemistry was somewhat difficult. I went through three kinds of brushes before finding one that worked best for me. Unfortunately, the course ended prematurely—I had a number of negatives with which I was looking forward to making prints. Overall, I really enjoyed the course and the delight in seeing a print emerge with beautiful rich blues from the water peroxide bath.