Jim McKinniss says, "I have been traveling to Venice, Italy for the Carnival every year for the last 13 years. My Venice work a major project in my several projects. 

Venice is a city like no other. It has existed for more than 17 centuries during which many poets, writers, artists, travelers and scientists have walked its streets or have been transported on its waters.

A traveler to the city is struck by its unique architecture, the delicious experience of enclosed alleyways leading to who knows where mixed with strange gifts to the senses by the scents of damp rock, salt of the sea, and maybe lichen.

These are the things that continually draw me back to Venice. These are the things that I attempt to capture in my photographs."

Jim McKinniss was born in Los Angeles, CA in1945. Married at 19 he worked full time while studying mathematics He graduated with a Masters degree in 1976. In the following three years he worked on a Ph D and taught math at the University of California. After leaving the academic world he learned to program computers and started a software consulting firm in 1983 from which he retired in 2005.

After retiring McKinniss studied photography and art at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. He uses Photoshop and photo editing apps such as Snapseed for smart phone cameras.

McKinniss has an eclectic interest in making photographs. His projects include Equine which studies horses in Palos Verdes, CA. Other projects include Ten Years of Venice, Home and Man in Black. Recently he has been working with Haiku poet Jim Force to pair photographs with Haiku poetry.

McKinniss was a member of the Los Angeles Art Association and has had his work published in both print and on-line sites domestically and internationally. His work has been published in the Huffington Post, Photographs that Inspire and as a contest winner for 10 years including a portfolio spotlight feature in Black and White Magazine for 6 of those10 years.

His work has appeared in galleries across the country including the San Diego Art Institute, the Hide Gallery in Fremont, CA, the Carol Watson Gallery in Texas, the Griffin Museum in Massachusetts, SE Center for Photography in South Carolina, Collector Works and Duncan Miller Gallery in Santa Monica, CA and the Vermont Photoplace Gallery.

McKinniss is the author of 3 photo books and a contributor to two others.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Black White and More” Juror: Paula Tognararelli

Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon

“The Photographic Nude” Juror: Douglas Beasley


2019

2019 California 101, Redondo Beach, California

14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Nominee

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Portrait exhibition” Juror: Doug Beasley
SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Open Exhibition” Juror: Susan Burnstine

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“The Portrait” Juror: Douglas Beasley

14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards honorable mention in Silhouettes

3rd place in Photographic Society of America Projected Image category

2018

13th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Nominee

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Black, White & Monochrome” group show Juror: Michael Foley

Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

“Fictional Narrative” Juror: Emma Powell

Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

“2018 Open” Juror: Douglass Beasley

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Still Life” group show Juror: Kimberly Witham

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Shades of Black and White” group show Juror: Susan Burnstine

FOCUS Photo LA, Los Angeles, California

“Winter 2017” group show Juror: Jo Ann Callis

10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

“The Nature of Things” group show

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, California

“Black and White and One Color” group show

2018 California 101, Redondo Beach, California group show

2017

Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, California

“Collector Works” group show

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Architectural” group show

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Open” group show

Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

“Portals” Juror: Aline Smithson


2016

SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

“Monochrome” Juror: Del Zogg

“Masks Juror: Aline Smithson

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

“Animalia” Juror: Traer Scott


2015

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

“Stories and Secrets” Juror: Emma Powell and Kristen Hoving

Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA

“Sky” Juror: Paula Tognarelli



GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Member of the Los Angeles Art Association

www.JimMcKinniss.Photography