J. M. Golding is a photographic artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. She chooses plastic, pinhole, and vintage film cameras and cameraless techniques as her primary tools: plastic cameras for the playfulness and spontaneity they promote and their capacity to help create dreamlike images, pinhole cameras for their simplicity and their contemplative quality, vintage film cameras for the subjectivity of the images that are possible, and cameraless techniques for the magic of making images with light alone. J. M.’s photographs have been shown internationally in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions, and she is the recipient of the 2013 Holga Inspire Award, Best of Show at Wanderlust (Dickerman Prints, 2017), the Lúz Gallery Curator’s Choice Award (2009), the First Juror’s Award at the Fantastic Film Show (LightBox Gallery, 2021), a Juror’s Choice Award at the 1st Annual Photography and Digital Art Exhibition (San Francisco Women Artists, 2022), and Honorable Mentions in other juried exhibitions. Her work has also appeared several books, in Diffusion, Shots, F-Stop, Square, Black & White, and Insight magazines, and on the websites Inside the Outside, Don’t Take Pictures, The Holga Darkroom, and The Shot. She is profiled on the websites LensCulture, F-Stop Magazine, All About Photo, and Mother F-Stop. J. M. is the author of the photobooks Returning to the Unimagined and, with Hélène Barrette, Playing With Light / Jeu de Lumière.