Vince Hemingson

Vancouver, BC, CA
Hemingson Photography
About Vince

Vince Hemingson is a photographer, writer/adventurer, world traveler, best-selling author and filmmaker.

Hemingson has been a passionate photographer for over twenty years, and is a graduate of the highly regarded Langara Photography Certificate Program. He has studied and taken Master Classes with the likes of Ralph Gibson, Greg Gorman, Joe McNally, Freeman Patterson and Thom Hogan, among others.

Hemingson is an NPS (Nikon Professional Services) Member and his award-winning work has been featured in VOLO and Blur magazines. An avid printer of his own work, he regularly hangs his photography in collective and solo exhibitions.

His first book of photography, The Tattoo Project: body. art. image. was published in 2012 by Schiffer Books and has been a commercial and critical success. A documentary film of the project is currently in post-production.

Hemingson's next long form photography series, The Nude in the Landscape seeks to create a body of work that frames the human body in the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest; juxtaposing the frailness and inherent fragility of the human form against the scale and grandeur of the landscape, contrasting the textures and tones between these two elements, and examining the relationship between the viewer and the subject. It is slated for publication in 2015.

His 2002 documentary film, The Vanishing Tattoo, which he co-produced, co-wrote and co-hosted, was broadcast on National Geographic International and was seen by an estimated audience of 400 million people, in over one hundred countries around the world.

When Vince makes time to set his cameras down, he is an ardent runner, having completed 35 marathons all over the world, including the Boston Marathon twice. Always seeking new goals, Vince has also run more than two dozen ultra-marathons, once running 50 miles through the West Coast mountains of British Columbia, Canada in combat boots and a kilt to settle a bet and running a personal best of 125 kilometres in one day.