James Sedwick

James Sedwick is a Western New York photographer. He was born in Erie, Pa. and is based in South Wales, N.Y. Asked to describe himself as an artist, he writes that he is "contemplative, deliberate, intuitive, [and] introverted. Slow in making images, thoughtful about the physical qualities of the image, preferring not to intellectualize about what I've made. ... I agree with Mamet's words about an image: concision and elegance. I like the sensuality of a photograph." (James Sedwick. "The Artists Among Us II" artist questionnaire. 2013)

James Sedwick (born Erie, Pa., 1946), a graduate of Gannon University and SUNY at Buffalo, retired from the practice of psychotherapy in 2015. He lives in South Wales, N.Y. He has photographed and sculpted since high school and shows his work with the Buffalo Society of Artists and at Meibohm Fine Arts.  In addition, his photographs have appeared in The Sun and Orion magazines, the journals Steam Ticket, LensWork Extended 99, Looking at Images (LensWork Publishing), and have been included in private and public collections. He studied with Andrea Modica, Keith Carter, and Dennis Stock. He prints his images in the darkroom with alternative process chemistry and sculpts in wood and stone. His poetry has appeared in Blueline, Passenger, Gentle Strength Quarterly, Passages North, The Buffalo News, Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (Boaz), Celebrations (July Literary Press), and Hello, Goodbye: Stories, Essays and Poems for the 21st Century (July Literary Press). G.K. Chesterton’s statement informs his work: "The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled but to make settled things strange." (https://www.meibohmfinearts.com/artists/details/1170)