About
James Chance is an award-winning British freelance photographer and multimedia producer based in Denver, Colorado. His work regularly features in the US and international media.
James is the current recipient of the (first) POYi Emerging Vision Incentive: a $10,000 award through POYi and the Annenberg Foundation to continue a personal body of work over the period of one year. James is continuing his project Living With The Dead: Manila's North Cemetery, which documents a community living in the Philippine capital's Catholic cemetery.
James was a finalist in the current Grand Prix CARE du Reportage Humanitaire and as a result exhibited at the prestigious Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival (France) in September 2009. In the same year James also received a nomination for the Anthropographia Human Rights and Photography Award.
This year James received an Honorable Mention in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2010 and will be exhibiting at the Flash Forward Festival in Toronto. James was also chosen to participate in the Eklivib Institute's Human Rights Photography Award (touring) exhibition and exhibited at the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany. James has another exhibition of work from Living with the Dead at the Nicephore+ festival in Clermont Ferrand, France in October.
In 2007 James co-founded Chance Multimedia with his wife Jessica. Chance Multimedia are currently producing content for major foundations and nonfprofit organizations as well as commercial clients. Recent clients include: Médecins Sans Frontières, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Saatchi and Saatchi S, Alston and Bird, The Colorado Health Foundation and Caring for Colorado.
Chance Multimedia were recipients of the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards in association with the UN, The Open Society Foundation and The Elders.
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