I’m honored once again to be involved with the Banff Centre for Arts.

They’ve invited me to be on the 2020 Mountain Photo Essay Competition jury.

The two other judges and I will award the Grand Prize in June 2020.

The winner and we three judges are invited to attend the Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival in November 2020 and I know I’ll be there.

Deadline to enter the photo competition is May 4, 2020, details here:

https://www.banffcentre.ca/mountain-photo-essay-competition

This years Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival, October 31 - November 8, 2020:

https://www.banffcentre.ca/banff-mountain-film-book-festival

Where it began — and where it was finished.

This is an important one for me. My book was originally inspired by early 20th Century Sierra Nevada climbers. The first photos of the project began here in 1998 and I finished the writing in the Owens Valley nearly two decades later. This area has also been my home away from home for a majority of my life.

I’ll be at the American Alpine Club’s Fall Highball in Bishop, CA, in conjunction with the Bishop Climbers Coalition. My talk/slideshow will be on Sunday, November 3, 6:30pm sharp, at the Inyo Council for the Arts.

I’ll be selling and signing books.

Also, the day before my talk, I’ll be teaching a photography workshop on November 2.

Thanks once again to the fine people at Adidas for your interest and support.

I’ll be speaking about, and showing photos from, The Climbers at the 2019 Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in beautiful Burnsville, NC, at the foot of the highest mountain east of the Rockies, Mount Mitchell.

I’ll also be selling and signing copies of the book.

Saturday September 7, 2019, 2pm to 3pm at the town center.

Schedule: http://cmlitfest.org/2019schedule/

http://cmlitfest.org

Hey Golden State, this is the first California event for ‘The Climbers’. I began this photography project 21 years ago in your state and finished it there 19 years later. I’m happy and excited to be coming back to where it all began and ended. What started as me seeking out a couple of climbers that were active in the Sierra Nevada in the 1920s turned into a two decade long around-the-world project to document climbers that were active during the ‘Golden Age’ of climbing between the 1920s and 1970s. I’ll be showing photos and talking about all of that, plus showing and talking about some of my music/celebrity portraiture. Hope to see you there.

I’ll be talking about my book The Climbers as well as showing photos from it as part of the Sensoria Literary Festival at CPCC in Charlotte, NC. It will take place in Tate Hall on the campus. Q&A and book signing too.

https://sensoria.cpcc.edu/about/

I’ll be doing a slideshow talk about my book The Climbers at the Centro de Fotografía Contemporánea de Bilbao where I currently have 35 prints on exhibit. I’ll also talk about and show some of my music portraits.

When and where: Wednesday, December 12 starting at 8pm in the CFC Bilbao which is located at:

Edificio Ensanche 
 Plaza Ensanche 11
 48009 Bilbao, Spain.

I’ll be signing copies of The Climbers today starting at 1pm. There will be copies for sale.

The signing starts at 1pm and I’ll be in the Mountain Marketplace in the Laszlo Funtek Building at the Banff Centre for Arts, either in Studio 222 or 224.

NASHVILLE!
Sunday, July 22, 2pm

Known more for his portraits of music legends such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and the Rolling Stones, for 20 years Jim Herrington traveled around the world documenting a different kind of legend.

Jim Herrington will present his new photography book The Climbers, the culmination of a two-decade project to track down and document the surviving legendary climbers of the early-to-mid 20th Century ‘Golden Age’ of climbing. These are the men and women from around the world who were vertically active between the 1920s and 1970s and who were at the cutting edge of an activity mostly unknown to the general public of the time.

Jim’s talk and slide show will begin with a brief encapsulation of his 35-year photography career, including his foray into the worlds of music and showbiz. He will move on to the climbers, detailing the stories of the climbers and their era as well as describing his unusual efforts to locate and arrive on the doorstep of these aging legends. The travels and travails he undertook to complete this far-flung project are not without anecdotes of despair, humor and adventure.

What is it like to be 98 years old and to look back at an uncompromising life spent in the “useless” quest of first ascents, usually far from home and hearth? The momentum and vigor of youth is not an ideal recipe for introspection, but one’s final years certainly suffice. Herrington learned as much about himself as he did his subjects during the project – the cost and reward of obsession and how to live in the present.

Herrington will recount what it was like to step into these climber’s homes, their lives, and their history. Seemingly time-traveling from the classic mountaineering literature he devoured as a young boy into the living rooms of these aging legends, this is his rogue’s gallery, a sampling of, and an ode to, an era.

The Climbers, published in October 2017, received both the Grand Prize at the 2017 Banff Film & Book Festival.

On July 19 I'll be doing my talk and slideshow about The Climbers at the Teton County Library in Jackson, WY. 

Q&A after and I’ll be selling and signing books. Come say hello.

I'll be doing a talk and slideshow about my book The Climbers at the International Climbers Festival in Lander, WY.

Thanks to Adidas for sponsoring me.

Today, July 13th, thanks to the kind and benevolent people at Adidas, I’ll be selling and signing copies of The Climbers in the Adidas booth at the ICF Trade Fair in Lander City Park, 2-6pm. Come spill your hot dog on me.

For 40+ years The Light Factory has been the place in Charlotte to see great photography, take workshops and rent darkrooms. I'll be doing a talk and slideshow about my book The Climbers in their gallery space on May 24th starting at 6:30pm. There will be wine.
More info: http://lightfactory.org/jim-herrington/

Sheffield Institute of Arts warmly welcomes Jim as he looks back on a long career of photographing artists, writers, musicians, movie stars. Jim has recently completed an epic 20 year project to document rock stars of a very different type: the climbers who forged the history of climbing and mountaineering from the 1920s to the 1970s. This started out as a personal project and has evolved into an award winning book that stands as a record of the history of a golden era.

We will be asking Jim how he made his start as a photographer. He will be offering his perspective on how the business has changed over the length of his career and what has sustained him creatively throughout his working life.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-institute-of-arts-presents-an-evening-with-jim-herrington-tickets-44218415471

Talk, slideshow, Q&A and book signing at the Alpine Club in London.

"Jim is a renowned photographer who for nearly two decades has been working on a portrait series of early-to-mid 20th Century mountain climbing legends. The result is The Climbers, a collection of sixty black-and-white photographs that document these rugged individualists, including the likes of Royal Robbins, Reinhold Messner, Joe Brown, Yvon Chouinard and Riccardo Cassin. Between the 1920s and 1970s these determined men and women used primitive gear along with their considerable wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. In these images, Herrington has captured their humanity, obsession, intellect, and frailty. The book, published in October 2017, received both the Grand Prize and the Mountaineering History Award at the 2017 Book Festival."

http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/ac2/events/icalrepeat.detail/2018/04/10title=jim-herrington-the-climbers/0/-/-?rp_id=274

I'll be doing a talk and slideshow about my book The Climbers in the Clark Room at the Explorers Club in NYC.

Cocktails at 6pm and I begin talking at 7pm.

Q&A and book signing after.

More info here:

https://explorers.org/events/detail/public_lecture_series_with_jim_herrington

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival has scheduled a double-header at the Centennial Theater in Vancouver.. It starts with my talk and slideshow about The Climbers, followed by a book-signing intermission, then a screening of the well-worth-seeing and award winning documentary Dirtbag about the most prolific North American climber ever, Fred Beckey, who also appears in my book.

Fresh out of bed, I'll feign coherence as I'm interviewed on CTV Morning Live in Vancouver at 7:10am.