Photographer James Wales presents his inaugural fine art monograph, Türkiye.
James grew up on Long Island in a humble home with the bare essentials, never traveling more than 30 miles from his home. At nine years old James was given a camera. He shot one roll of film through it, and his father took it away because the family couldn’t afford for James to have such an expensive hobby.
In 1989, after decades of building his professional business career, James flew to Türkiye with two film cameras with the intent of becoming a photojournalist. The experience was his first international trip. Traveling across the country over several weeks, James gathered back pieces of himself that he had lost over years of denying his own creative passion. He discovered communities like him who knew hardship and how little one truly needs to live a vibrant life of color and meaning. He found the butcher and the mother and the priest to each find such pride in their roles in life because their culture wasn’t attached to materiality and commerce. James understood.
Upon his return from Türkiye, his personal and professional life was over as he knew it, and the negatives were forced into storage for thirty years and forgotten, until now.
After tremendous success in business, James Wales is now an artist. Fulfilling his creative aspirations which sparked as a child, James begins his journey with Türkiye.
The Türkiye monograph is wrapped with an organic printed cloth cover consistent with the raw and organic materials James encountered on his vibrant sweep through Türkiye. The cloth’s variances in fibral makeup make every monograph unique.
This publication was released on July 15, 2021.
Türkiye by James Wales *SIGNED*
First Edition of 500
76 Pages
9x12 Inches, Landscape Format
Printed Cloth Covers
Hardbound
Signed by James Wales
Printed offset by Brilliant in Exton, PA
Photographer James Wales presents his inaugural fine art monograph, Türkiye.
James grew up on Long Island in a humble home with the bare essentials, never traveling more than 30 miles from his home. At nine years old James was given a camera. He shot one roll of film through it, and his father took it away because the family couldn’t afford for James to have such an expensive hobby.
In 1989, after decades of building his professional business career, James flew to Türkiye with two film cameras with the intent of becoming a photojournalist. The experience was his first international trip. Traveling across the country over several weeks, James gathered back pieces of himself that he had lost over years of denying his own creative passion. He discovered communities like him who knew hardship and how little one truly needs to live a vibrant life of color and meaning. He found the butcher and the mother and the priest to each find such pride in their roles in life because their culture wasn’t attached to materiality and commerce. James understood.
Upon his return from Türkiye, his personal and professional life was over as he knew it, and the negatives were forced into storage for thirty years and forgotten, until now.
After tremendous success in business, James Wales is now an artist. Fulfilling his creative aspirations which sparked as a child, James begins his journey with Türkiye.
The Türkiye monograph is wrapped with an organic printed cloth cover consistent with the raw and organic materials James encountered on his vibrant sweep through Türkiye. The cloth’s variances in fibral makeup make every monograph unique.
This publication was released on July 15, 2021.
Türkiye by James Wales *SIGNED*
First Edition of 500
76 Pages
9x12 Inches, Landscape Format
Printed Cloth Covers
Hardbound
Signed by James Wales
Printed offset by Brilliant in Exton, PA