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Jim Clark is an award-winning photographer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated in 1971 from a Halifax Campus Community College photography course as the top student and began his career as a darkroom technician and photographer with Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Ltd.
From 1971-1975 he worked for the Dalhousie University Life Sciences Audiovisual Department as a bio-medical photographer. He pursued freelance work from 1975-1978, while also managing a retail photography department and travelling throughout Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as a representative for Maritime Color Labs.
A year after returning to Wamboldt-Waterfield as a photojournalist in the summer of 1978, Clark became a business partner, acquiring full ownership in 1985 and changing the company's name to Clark Photographic Ltd. after Terry Waterfield's 1990 retirement. In 1998 he formed a partnership with photographer Gary Castle, and Clark Photographic became Digiscan Photographic, reflecting the changes in imaging technology.
Clark continued to work as a photographer in commercial, advertising and special events throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. From 1995-1996 he had a contract with Dalhousie's Medical Computing Media Services (later MED IT), and in 2001 he became the medical photographer and videoconferencing coordinator for Dalhousie, where he worked until 2011.