J.M. Golding

Bio

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 such as the Holga 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 purity of making images with light alone. J. M.’s photographs have been shown internationally in numerous juried group exhibitions and she is the recipient of the 2013 Holga Inspire Award, Best of Show at Wanderlust (Dickerman Prints, 2017), the Lúz Gallery (Victoria) 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 and 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, Mother F-Stop, and Toycamera.es.

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