Jim Roche
I grew up in Massachusetts and then moved to Brooklyn, NY. Currently I live in British Columbia, Canada. I trained as a painter and printmaker at Clark University and then studied at Pratt Institute in New York. My prints are in corporate and private collections. I now work almost exclusively in photography, and have lived and worked in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 20+ years.
My work focuses on what I call minor landscapes: places shaped by repeated human use, temporary intrusions, and gradual change over time. Pathways, garden edges, woodland clearings, vacant lots, overlooked public spaces that carry traces of memory, attachment, and disappearance. These are the landscapes we actually live with, not the dramatic or the sublime, but the peripheral, the inhabited, the unresolved.
The photographs are not primarily about description. They are about recognition. I think of them as incomplete fragments, images the viewer finishes through memory and association. I am interested in how ordinary acts of use leave traces in the land, and in how beauty functions as a relationship between an image and the person looking at it.
Alongside the photographs, I write essays and notes about photography, landscape, memory, and everyday life.I am a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Other places you can see my work:
https://www.instagram.com/jimrochephotos/
https://jimroche.tumblr.com
https://jimroche.substack.com
The flooded path in the woodlands, early spring 2023.
Available Works
Works are available in limited editions, usually of five images, with artist proofs.
Image sizes depend on the individual work; however, they are generally 60 x 40 inches. (The image size is 60X40, and the paper size would be 66X46.) Occasionally, there are larger prints and pieces of unusual ratios, as well as some smaller images in larger editions. I prefer to sell my works framed, as the final presentation is important; however, arrangements can be made for the purchaser to have them appropriately framed.
Don't hesitate to get in touch with me directly about purchasing a print: jimroche@icloud.com
All photos and essays © Jim Roche 2026. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, internet or otherwise, without the express written permission of the copyright owner. Contact me at jimroche@icloud.com for information on use.