James Walsh's fascination with photography started as a tweenager, when he took a young photographer's class at Brooklyn College. His interest took on a much more determined path on a cross-country road trip with a friend in late summer 2007, an experience memorialized in his first series "XCountry." Driving across the varied canvas of West Coast and Midwest America, Walsh developed a style which reflects the basic function of the camera - to capture a moment in time. His early subjects were mostly limited to landscapes, and shadows and reflections of his own image. Many of the images from "XCountry" eventually made it into his first exhibition, a group show as part of the Strange Days Music and Arts Festival in 2008.

Moving away from the come as you are style of nomadic photography, Walsh moved into studio work in November 2008 to produce "Starbabes & Spacewhores," a collaborative effort with painter Paula Digioia. Digioia's influence can be seen in the use of large swaths of vibrant colors. The series grew out of an observation by Digioia that all of the women on the original Star Trek series try to sleep with Captain Kirk, either because they are virtuous examples of their planet's indigenous females or because they have maniacal delusions of taking over the Enterprise on the way to universal domination. Much like the flawed women of our own world, beauty can be seen in all the women of S&S.

Walsh's most recent production was also a collaboration, this time with dancer Brynne Billingsley, a native of New Orleans. "Dance of Flight" captures Billingsley performing her dance "Elbow Tow Blues" in her studio and later on the roof. Walsh's photos capture Billingsley's fluid movements and the feeling that she may take flight at any moment.

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