Born and raised in Hawaii, James learned to love nature and the beauty of working with it. Later as a teenager, he moved to Sweden and began studying photography and 3D design. During that period, he also organized and maintained an online community that developed free user-content for computer games.

           In 2004, he travelled and lived as a monk in India for a year. Afterward, he continued travelling around the world taking iconic photographs and writing a series of poems. In 2005 he found himself back in the United States of America.

           Now based in the historic town of Charlottesville, Virginia, James will soon attend his third year in college and currently works as a freelance photographer. All in all, he loves working with his hands, baking and cooking, writing, and farming. Ultimately, he hopes to return to working with the land, growing his own food, and writing fiction novels.