Photographer Jim Tampin, Dorset

Jim Tampin

Hi, I'm Jim 👋, a photographer based in Weymouth, Dorset, England, available for photography services across the surrounding areas.

Jim Tampin

Membership Number: 194929

Jim Tampin Photography
Weymouth
Dorset
England
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1955,one month before my 15th Birthday I joined the Wiltshire Gazette, (now the gazette & Herald), as an apprentice photographer.

Then came the Army as a photographer rose to the dizzy hights of Sgt. that's as far as you can go. Then the Hearts & Essex Observer. Joined the BIPP. Also we lost our eldest Son to cancer.

Went to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Chief Photographer Rhodesia Herald, returned UK 1976 freelanced The Times & Sunday Times, just great, stuffed by the big fleet St. strike. Retired 2020 as Chief Photographer of the Dorset Echo.

Fellowship of BIPP 1975. (Press)
President of BIPP 1988/9
Awarded Life Membership 1989
Fellowship of RPS.1998 (Visual Journalism)