Jamie Maxtone-Graham (b. 1957 Tarrytown, NY) graduated Hampshire College with a BA in Film, Photography and Literature in 1983. Jamie has a professional background of more than 20 years in commercial and narrative cinematography as a guild cinematographer in both New York and Los Angeles with works ranging from independent films, mainstream feature films, episodic television and advertising. He first came to Vietnam in 1990 to shoot the feature documentary From Hollywood To Hanoi and returned a number of times in the decade following on other non-fiction and narrative films - among them the Sundance Film Festival award-winning feature Three Seasons - and for several personal projects as well.
In 2007-08 he became a Fulbright Research Fellow, receiving a grant funding his proposal to photograph contemporary youth culture in Vietnam called State of Youth. The photographic portfolios on this website are a reflection of the work produced since then. He continues to live in Hanoi and has published numerous photography portfolios in, among others, burn Magazine, Trans Asia Photography Review, Culturehall, Invisible Ph t grapher Asia, Photography And Culture, and tiny vices. His photographs have exhibited in festivals, group and solo shows in Hanoi, London, Netherlands, Bangkok and Arles, France. Three bodies of his work were recently published in the online photography journal LANDSCAPE Stories (LS.13): State Of Youth (2007), The Long Bien Picture Show (2010) and The Desiring Garden (2011). He continues shooting commercial and other moving image projects, curating exhibitions, conducting workshops, and has produced an award-winning documentary.
The portfolio called The Long Bien Picture Show was originally part of a larger project Jamie produced and curated in Hanoi funded by The British Council in mid-2010 featuring the work of four photographers and four filmmakers working independently in the same area during the same three month period. A clip of the original outdoor projected exhibition in Hanoi in December can be seen here and the entire exhibition viewed here .
The Long Bien Picture Show was published in the Spring 2011 issue (Issue 2) of the Trans Asia Photography Review - in the Curatorial Projects section and republished on diaCRITICS.
60 Places To Stand was published online at Invisible Ph t grapher Asia in March 2012 and exhibited at Japan Foundation, Hanoi in March-April 2012 in a joint exhibition with Nguyen Trinh Thi called Jo Ha Kyu.
The Desiring Garden was part of the Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2012 in Netherlands – Terra Cognita September-October 2012. Solo exhibitions at Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand November-December 2012 and MANZI Art Space Hanoi, Vietnam March-April 2013. Group exhibition ASEAN at Galerie Le Magasin de jouets, Arles France, July-Sept 2013.
Lying Down was exhibited at Japan Foundation, Hanoi in December, 2013 as part of Skylines With Flying People open studio project and is part of The Pocket Dictionary of Nha San created by Phan Thảo Nguyên, 2014.
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