JAMES WHITLOW DELANO photographers
After working as a fashion photographer
with masters of photography such as Annie Leibovitz,
Deborah Tuberville, Michel Comte and Greg Gorman, in L.A., James
Whitlow Delano found his way. His boundless work goes from
rainforests of South-East Asia to the ancient silk way in the
far West of China, from Latin America's mountains to Europe and
Africa.
Books:
Empire: Impressions from China, Monograph Book, Five
Continents Editions 2004
I Viaggi di Tiziano Terzani,
Monograph Book, Vallardi Italia May 2008
The Mercy Project / Inochi,
Created & Curated by James Whitlow Delano, Mado-sha, Japan
2010
Inside China: Contributor,
National Geographic Books 2007
Himalaya: Contributor, National
Geographic Books 2006
This Day of Change 1/20 Project:
Contributor, Kodansha Japan 2009
Awards:
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2008
1st Place: Best Published Picture Story (large markets) / Kabul
Drug & Psychiatric Hospital.
Alfred Eisenstadt Award, Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism/Life Magazine 2000
Best Travel Photo Essay (China)
Leica Camera: Oskar Barnack Award
2006
Honorable Mention: Japan Mangaland Series
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism
2009
Honorable Mention: Environmental Picture Story / In the Eye of
Burma's Cyclone Nargis
2008 PDN (Photo District News)
Photography Jury-Selected Annual
Personal Work Category - "Paraditas (Standing Girls), Sex Workers
of Tijuana, Mexico's Zona Norte"
2006 PDN (Photo District News)
Photography Jury-Selected Annual
Personal Work Category - "China: Rich and Poor"
Picture of the Year International
(POYi)
2005 Award of Excellence / Shenzhen, China
2005 PDN (Photo District News)
Photography Jury-Selected Annual
Book Category: "Empire: Impressions from China", (Five Continents
Editions)
Communication Arts Photography
Annual
2005 Award of Excellence: Book Category: "Empire: Impressions from
China", (Five Continents Editions)
2004 PDN (Photo District News)
Photography Jury-Selected Annual
Photo-Journalism: Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, China.
American Photography: Volume
21
2004 Jury-Selected Photography Annual: Editorial Series (Three
Gorges of the Yangtze River, China.)
Picture of the Year International
(POYi)
2004 Award of Excellence / Three Gorges of the Yangtze River,
China.
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism
Awards
2003 Gold Award for Magazine Photo Illustration of a Travel
Article (Cambodia)
American Photography: Volume
18
2002 Jury-Selected Photography Annual: Editorial Series
(China)
Banff Mountain Photography Competition,
Banff Centre for Mtn. Cult. and Nat'l Geographic
Society
2002 Grand Prize Winner (Jambeyang Holy Mountain, Tibet)
Prix du Festival Off 2000
2000 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie: Selected by
Jury (China)
PATA Gold Award
2001 Destination Article - Magazine (Inner Tibet)
2001 PDN (Photo District News)
Photography Jury-Selected Annual
Photo-Journalism & Editorial: Inner Tibet
Communication Arts
2000 Award of Excellence: Editorial Series (French West
Africa)
American Photography: Volume
16
2000 Jury-Selected Photography Annual: Editorial Series (French
West Africa)
Society of Publishers in Asia
Awards
2001 Awards for Editorial Excellence: Best Feature Photography
(Inner Tibet)
Step by Step Magazine Graphic Design
Awards
2000 Best Spread: En Route Magazine / January 2000 (Russia,
Beijing, Paris & Bali)
Communication Arts
1998 Award of Excellence: Editorial Series (China)
Black and White Magazine Portfolio
Contest: 2007
Japan Mangaland / Merit Award
Art Directors Club 86th Annual Awards
(2007)
Photography: Magazine Editorial, Merit: America's Divide
(US/Mexican Border, Newsweek Cover Story)
PX3 / Prix de la Photographie Paris
(2010)
Professional / Photojournalism, Honorable Mention (Not Enough
Water for New York Times Lensblog)
PX3 / Prix de la Photographie Paris
(2009)
Professional / Photojournalism, Honorable Mention (The Trail of
the Olympic Killer/China for Newsweek)
PX3 / Prix de la Photographie Paris
(2007)
Professional / Photojournalism, Honorable Mention (Kabul Drug
& Psychiatric Hospital)
European Newspaper Awards
(2009)
Award of Excellence Photo Essay / (Homeless in Japan for DN
Magasin)
Permanent Museum Collections:
La Triennale di Milano Fine Arts Museum, Milano, Italy: China
photographsMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas, USA: Africa & Philippines photographs
Museo Fotografia Contemporanea,
Milano, Italy: Empire: Impressions from China and Sule Orme
di Tiziano Terzani complete series collections.
Museum of Photographic Arts, Dubois
Library, San Diego, Ca, USA: Empire Impressions from
China.
Noorderlicht Photography Festival,
Groningen, Netherlands: Religion in China and Faces of Islam
Photographs
Daegu Municipal Government, South
Korea: China Photographs
Leica Camera, Solms, Germany: I
Viaggi di Tiziano Terzani in Permanent Leica Book Archive
Museum and Gallery show:
La Triennale di Milano Fine Arts Museum, Palazzo dell'Arte,
Milano, Italy
Empire: Impressions from China, One-Person Show, October -
November 2005
Leica Gallery, Frankfurt,
Germany
Leica/ Oskar Barnack: Japan: Mangaland, 23 February - 24 March
2007
Leica Gallery, Solms,
Germany
Leica/ Oskar Barnack: Japan: Mangaland, 1 January - 31 January
2007
Leica Gallery, Solms,
Germany
"Impressions from China", One-Person Show, December 2001
Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech
Republic
"Impressions from China" One-Person Show, September 2001
Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan,
France
Burma Revisited series screened, September 2008
Taming the Yellow Dragon: China Desertification series screened,
September 2007
China Empire & Three Gorges series screened, September
2003
Rencontres d'Arles, France
Leica/ Oskar Barnack: Japan: Mangaland one-person show, July
2006
Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen,
The Netherlands.
Human Conditions / Pursuit of Happiness (Mexican Migration to US),
6 September - 4 October 2009
Act of Faith: Faces of Islam and Religion in China, 16 September -
28 October 2007
Another Asia: Death Throes of a Great Rainforest, 10 September -
29 October 2006
Palazzo Battioro, San Stae - Venice,
Italy
Empire: Impressions from China, One-Person Show, 27 April - 28 May
2006
Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Japan Mangaland & China: Growing Pains, 25 November - 10
December 2006
China Desertification & Burma: 17 November - 28 November
2007
Spazio Tindiaci, Padova,
Italy
Empire: Impressions from China, One-Person Show, 15 May - 8 June
2006
Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South
Korea.
Shenzhen, China series, 19 October - 29 October 2006.
Wave Gallery, Brescia,
Italy
Empire: Impressions from China, One Person Show, 19 June - 30 July
2007
Yours Gallery, Warsaw,
Poland
Leica/ Oskar Barnack, One Person Show: Japan Mangaland
Corigliano Calabro Fotografia Festival,
Calabria, Italy
Empire: Impressions from China, One Person Show: 6 October 2007 -
6 January 2008
Grazia Neri Galleria, Milano,
Italy
I Viaggi di Tiziano Terzani one-person show, 1 December 2008 - 1
January 2009
M97 Gallery, Shanghai,
China
Empire: Impressions from China one-person show. 17 May - 18 June
2008
McDermott Gallery, Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Burma In the Eye of the Cyclone one-person show, 23 November 2008
- 23 December 2008
Lianzhou International Photo Festival,
Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
Dystopia / Utopia China, December 2008
Rovereto Immagini Photo Festival,
Rovereto, Italy
Sulle Orme di Tiziano Terzani 18 July - 30 August 2009
1st International Biennale of
Photography and Science at Viterbo, Italy
"At the Edges of the World", one-person show, September 2005
10th Photo Gathering, Le Pont
Organization, Aleppo, Syria
Photo Festival one-person show, Dystopia / Utopia: Growing Pains
in China, 1 October - 15 October 2009
Reportage Photo Festival, Paddington,
Sydney, Australia.
Japan Mangaland, 8 October - 26 October 2008
Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin,
Germany
Aus Grabungen (Excavations), 21 March - 26 April 2009
Foreign Correspondents' Club of
Japan, Tokyo, Japan
I Viaggi di Tiziano Terzani Book & Inferno Without Flame:
Burma Cyclone series, 28 March - 1 May 2009
The Center for Fine Art Photography,
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
2009 Documentary Exhibition / In the Eye of Burma's Cyclone Nargis
31 July - 22 August 2009
Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen,
The Netherlands.
China Goes: The rise of a new world power, 26 July - 7 September
2008
FotoFreo, Fremantle,
Australia
Dystopia / Utopia: Growing Pains in China, 4 April - 4 May
2008
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
"Inner Tibet", Show and Benefit for Kham Aid Foundation, One
Person Show; July - September 2000
"Tiger Turning Away, Images of Asia", One Person Show; December -
January 1998
White Room Gallery, Los Angeles,
California.
"Bejalai. A Journey", One-Person Show, April 2005
The Minnesota Center of Photography,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Three Gorges: November 2007 - February 2008
Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento,
California
China: Rivers of Change, January - February 2008
Gallery of Contemporary Photography;
Santa Monica, California.
"Enigmatic" Group Show; December 1992 - January 1993
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Tokyo,
Japan.
UNESCO-Japan Int'l Artist Annual Exhibition; October 1993
Paolo Baldacci Gallery; New York, New
York.
Blind Spot Photography Magazine: The First Four Years; October
1996
Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New
York.
Blind Spot Magazine: Benefit Show & Auction for Action Against
Hunger; January 2000
Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm
Springs, California
Japan Mangaland: May 2007
Gallery Representation:
M97 Gallery, Shanghai,
China;
Forma International Center of Photography: Milano,
Italy;
Wave Gallery: Brescia, Italy.
Representation:
Contrasto, Rome/Milan, Italy Assignment &
Syndication.
Redux Pictures, New York, New
York / Assignment & Syndication
Cosmos Photo, Paris, France,
Assignment & Syndication
Focus Agentur, Hamburg, Germany,
Assignment / Syndication