Discipline: Visual Art

James Billipp

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975
Jim Billipp is a Boston-based DP with 25 years’ experience providing network and corporate clients with beautiful interviews and creative b-roll. Jim’s work has been seen on network news magazine shows, NOVA, National Geographic, and Discovery. His corporate clients include Anheuser-Busch, Teradyne, and Staples. Producers appreciate Jim’s eye for composition, informed by his many years shooting still photography. Jim’s photographs have been published in several National Geographic books and he is an avid climber and outdoorsman; he’s comfortable shooting in the boardroom, on a snowboard, and anywhere in between. He speaks fluent Spanish and travels frequently to South America, where he is producing and shooting a long-term documentary with Arhuaco Indians in Colombia.

Studios

Putnam

James Billipp worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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