James Hoggard is originally from Santa Barbara, California, and spent 10 years in Salt Lake City, Utah. James earned a B.S. in Geology from CSU Chico in 1990 and then studied traditional photography at Truckee Meadows Community College in Truckee California. He has been using a large-format view camera for over 20 years and still uses it for the majority of his fine-art work seen at art festivals. James also uses of digital SLR cameras for art reproduction and product work for artists in the area.

“In my photographs, the landscape itself is the art form. It is my goal to preserve fragments of it in the most appealing manner that I am able. All of the scenes represented by my photographs are real and remain undisturbed. I am a realist in my photography, changing scenes little other than enhancing tones to give greater impact. I try to create each image with a full range of tones from deep black to vibrant white while utilizing the middle tones in such a way to emphasize the luminosity of a scene. It is my hope that this feeling of light will invite the viewer into the scene, to be a part of the image. “