Biog.

Born In Weymouth, Somerset, Growing up in Kent, Smith began his photographic interest as a child. Fnding early inspiration from the redundant Cornish mines and queries that interspersed family holidays, his curiosity was fed by these architectural signals of human history, left behind on our landscape, 

He continued to study photography at Staffordshire University, graduating in 2006. It was during his studies he was inspired by the American  New-Topographic movement and began his own contemporary documentary records of the defunct pottery industry that surrounded the British midlands.

Arriving in Hackney, London the following year, Jamie began his professional life working with young design journals photographing the bubbling local art scene, whilst continuing his documentary work inspired by the industrial landscapes he encountered during his degree work.

These same themes of beauty in the banal and industrial landscape in flux can be seen in  his works documenting the collapse of the motor industry in Detroit, the troubled steel and oil industries of Middlesborough and his series of abandoned Athens Olympics Stadiums. An appreciate for Architecture become more focused in his Brutalist London series, examining how the social upheaval of post-war Europe effected our urban landscape. His critical eye on sustainable development evolved to encompass human environmental impact in his series Europe Last Forest, a study of deforestation in Poland brought on by a new Nationalist government.

His professional career has seen commissions and published work with the New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair and Esquire, whilst exhibiting with the AOP, HOST, Parallel ,V&A and Natural History Museum.

Jamie splits his time between Vienna and London, working on professional and editorial commissions for publications and agencies.

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