Jim Lee (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jim Lee (photographer)

Photographer and Film Director

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1945

Place of Birth: London

Profession: photographer, film director, fashion photographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jim Lee (born 20 November 1945) is a London-based photographer and film director.
A fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies, he worked closely with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in London and New York on fashion and advertising shoots.
He switched to film directing in the late seventies, creating hundreds of television commercials as well as working on several full-length feature films.
His earlier photographs form part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with additional photographs in the archives of The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
A book of his life's work entitled Jim Lee / Arrested was launched in May 2012 alongside an exhibition of photographs from the book at Somerset House, London.
Lee's work is regularly exhibited at art galleries around the world, and he continues to collaborate on imaginative campaigns, in addition to developing his own creative projects.
In September 2015, Lee's autobiographical book LIFE IN B&W was released by Quartet at the Groucho Club in London.
In 2016, Lee was a speaker at the Oxford Literary Festival, where he was also interviewed by writer Paul Blezard.
In October 2018, Lee's latest book, The BOX, was published by The Box Book Company.
In 2019, Lee published My BOX, a version of The BOX for children between the ages of 8-15 years.