Jack  R  White

Personal:

Career:

2003 – To date:

Settled in St Francis Bay and run our own Art Studio.

 I take an assortment of large size photographs for people to display in homes and offices. Our studio also offers the public Ethnic Jewelry, African Artifacts, Original Paintings and Stone & Bronze sculptures.

 We have a sister Art Gallery in Hout Bay, Cape Town, which has been run by our son and his wife since 1996 promoting Fine Art, Large Original Paintings, Bronze and stone Sculptures.

 I accept photographic assignments from weddings, a selection of events and advertising campaigns to promoting a variety of activities. My clientele base extends from Knysna and George to the south of us, to Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown in the north with one regular client in Cape Town.

1998 – 2002:

 Retired from the newspaper world and set up a print broking business. We produced ‘special offer’ inserts for Makro Zimbabwe much like Pick & Pay, Checkers and others pump out almost weekly in South Africa.

This work slotted in superbly with producing high quality annual reports for clients like the Anglo American group of mines, finance houses, insurance companies and other large public enterprises.

My company also found itself producing a variety of out of the ordinary technical publications for several diplomatic embassies.

1979 – 1997:

Returned to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to take up the post of Chief Photographer for largest National Newspaper, a paper that then fell under the mantle of The Argus Group of Newspapers in South Africa until the country gained full political independence at the end of a long and bitter bush war.

 This period of my professional life had by far the worst conditions of employment I have experienced but we did it for the love and excitement of the job.

1970 – 1978:

Visited London where I studied pure and applied photography for six years, before sitting and passing the associate ship level examinations of:

 The Royal Photographic society of Great Britain (ARPS)

The Chartered Institute of Incorporated Photographers (AIIP)

The Society of Industrial Artists and Designers (MSIAD).

At the same time I established a rewarding Industrial and Architectural photographic operation in London. We photographed large residential and industrial estates for advertising and promotional work along with extensive industrial conveyor belt systems for strategic man hour and machine efficiency analysis. And after qualifying, I also lectured pure photography to Diploma level students in Plymouth’s Polytechnic and applied photography to architectural and design students at The Chelsea School of Art and Design in London.

1961 – 1969: 

Joined Kodak. Trained in selling, technically supporting and promoting the company products in all professional photographic fields the company covered.

These included medical, dental, graphic arts, motion picture, office copiers, film & print processing facilities and the huge range of ever popular Kodak cine and still cameras.

1949 – 1960:

Schooling to Cambridge School leaving Certificate (Equivalent to ‘O’ level).  At 13 years old I took my first ‘paid for professional photograph’ at school. Subsequently I took all the school teams, class photographs, plays and many other events for the pupils and school magazine.

Awards Received:

Press Photographer of the Year: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996. Placed 2^nd in: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1995.

World Press Photographers competition: Entered twice (1981 & 1982) and both times selected in the top 100 from 21000 plus photographers.

Once off British Commonwealth Photographer: Placed 3^rd (1982).

Zimbabwe Wild Life photographer of the year: Entered once, won best print award.