North Cape Graphics
8731 Upper De Armoun Road
Anchorage, AK 99516

PHONE (907) 345-2154

E-Mail James Brady

Web Site: www.northcapegraphics.com/

Specializing in Sports, Editorial, Portraiture, Fine Art

James Brady found a love of photography as a teenager. This passion followed him to Alaska where he attended college, pursuing dual majors in art and biological science. His photographic pursuits included portraiture, mountain landscapes and documentary accounts of numerous mountaineering expeditions in the Alaska Range. He is among the few who can claim to have carried a medium format Mamiya RB 67 on an expedition traversing the summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley).

Photography has followed him through a 25-year career as a fisheries biologist, working with the commercial fishing industry throughout Alaska's coastal waters and interior rivers. The beauty and ever changing nature of Alaska's maritime communities and fisheries resources are a focus of much of his work. This interest has led to the pursuit of a personal photographic project centered on Alaska's fishing industry.

"I have always been fascinated with the men and women whose livelihoods are dependent upon the sea. It is a complex triangular relationship that exists between an unpredictable resource, the boats and equipment used to harvest it and the free will, ego, ambition and ingenuity that is unique to every fisherman. In my photography, I try to capture the survivors, those whose personal drive and bond with the marine environment keep them returning to the sea."

James's fine art prints have a distinctive style, ranging from the real to the surreal, and often involve complex digital techniques. They are hand printed on neutral pH watercolor papers using archival pigmented inks.

In 1999, James started North Cape Graphics, a photography and graphic design business located in Anchorage. He provides digital photographic services, including event coverage, environmental portraiture, and special assignments.