Wind Tunnel - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Growing up in Kent, Smith began his photographic interest on childhood holidays, documenting the abandoned mines and queries on the Cornish coast, finding a deep excitement exploring the relics of the industrial revolution. He continued to study photography at Staffordshire University, graduating in 2006. It was during his studies he was inspired by the American New-Topographic movement and began his own contemporary documentary record of the defunct pottery industry that surrounded the British midlands. Arriving in Hackney, London the following year, Jamie fell in with the bohemian artists and designers frequenting leaky warehouse and illegal parties throughout east London. There he honed a style of environmental portraiture that was at the same time interior documentary, searching out beauty amongst the unpolished talent. These same themes of beauty in the banal and industrial landscape in flux can be seen in his works documenting the collapse of the motor industry in Detroit, the troubled steel and oil industries of Middlesborough and his series of abandoned Athens Olympics Stadiums. An appreciation for Architecture become more focused in his Brutalist London series, examining how the social upheaval of post-war Europe affected our urban landscape. His critical eye on sustainable development evolved to encompass human environmental impact in his series Europe Last Forest, a study of deforestation in Poland brought on by a new Nationalist government. His professional career has seen commissions and published work with the New York Times, Financial Times, Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair and Esquire. Jamie splits his time between Vienna and London, working on professional and editorial commissions for publications and agencies.