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'The Castle' New York Times photographer James Hills documentation about Château de Maillebois
For the last 20 years James Hill has been photographing life at his wife’s ancestral home in France, the Château de Maillebois. Surrounded by a walled park, the property is an island of the past caught in the present. The images, both tender and whimsical, explore the plethora of emotions that come from living in a house bearing so much history and how the family and the local community interact with it. The photographer watches his family in their role as temporary custodians of the castle, attempting to maintain its traditions and carry them into an uncertain future.

James Hill has been a contract photographer for The New York Times since 1995 and his images have won many of photojournalism’s most important prizes including World Press Photo, the Pulitzer Prize and the Visa d’Or. His last book, Somewhere between War and Peace, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2014.

His series of books and exhibitions have been supported by both governmental and commercial agencies. Among recent projects were “Victory Day,” an extensive portrait series of more than 500 Russian WWII veterans published with the support of the Brit­ish Council and “Days of San Isidro,” a study on bull­fighting commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of For­eign Affairs. His latest book, “Somewhere Between War and Peace,” an examination of the emotional and artistic forces dominating a photographer’s career, is published by Kehrer Verlag.

His work has been shown in solo exhibits in both state and commercial galleries worldwide. His photo­graphs are also in the permanent collections of the Pushkin Museum, the Moscow House of Photography, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as institu­tional and private collections.
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IMAGE // James Hill 'The Castle' (KEHRER VERLAG)
IMAGE // James Hill 'The Castle' (KEHRER VERLAG)