Jim Catanich
Commercial and Editorial Photographer
Dallas photographer Jim Catanich is a professionally trained photographer who shoots a wide range of commercial and editorial photography. Based in Wylie Texas, he works from a spacious studio just East of Dallas city centre. He also offers high quality location photography across the Dallas and surrounding area.
- "Ever since I first bought a camera in 1964, I have been passionate about photography. Although I made my first commercial sale of photographs to the LA Times soon after buying this camera, it took me another 8 years to commit to a photography career." - Jim Catanich
As a student in high school, Jim Catanich won several photography competitions, including a national seascape photography competition, and regularly shot seascape images for calendars and other markets. He now take great satisfaction in crafting professional photographs of all types of subject, and enjoy the spectrum of challenges that photography provides, from lighting a food still life photograph, arranging a group portrait or deliberating on the ideal viewpoint for a seascape.
Jim Catanich likes nothing more than being in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains wilderness, next to a campfire, listening to the crackling embers at night. For him, this is happiness
- "...being close to the bubbles formed by melting ice, or dew-covered leaves, or that rosy glow of spider webs when dawn first appears." - Jim Catanich
Jim Catanich's romance with photography began more than a half-century ago in the 1960s, when he first strayed from his commercial work into the realm of the shoreline, tidal pool, stream bank, and mountain meadow, Jim Catanich has been a dedicated advocate of the natural world.
- "I continue to explore the concept of moving in close and getting to know living things intimately. I love the life in the eyes" - Jim Catanich.
Much of his work involves photographing business people at their work place where he shoots corporate portrait photographs for covers and features of several business magazines. He shoots extensive product photograph for online web sites. He also shoots stock photography for Getty Images and other Getty businesses, including a popular range of stock shots of Dallas. His clients include online shopping carts, charities, advertising and design agencies, actors, publishing companies and magazines.
- "I now shoot with top-of the range Nikon professional digital equipment. For many jobs, I shoot digital photographs direct to a computer. This gives immediate high resolution viewing of photographs and help guarantee that the images I shoot are those my customers require." - Jim Catanich
For select samples of Jim Catanich photographs, visit his Photography Portfolio.
Editorial Photography Clients
Oceans, Life, Look, Outdoor Photography, Sunset, House Beautiful, Modern Photography, LA Times
Commercial Photography Clients
Royal Viking Line, American Airlines, Del Monte Company, Alcoa Corp., Intel Corp., Castle and Cook, Hewlett Packard Co., Memorex Corp., Spectra Research, TI, Chevron Chemical Co., Georgia Pacific
Environmental Photography
Environmental photography work in England, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Ecuador, Galapagos islands, Alaska, Canada, and the American southwest, west and northwest.
Awards
Life Magazine Photographic Contest, first prize, under 18
Google Profile of Jim Catanich
