The Focus Art Gallery Presents

Irish Portfolio

Photographer

By D. James Galbraith
January 2025

The Focus Gallery is honored to announce a rare glimpse from Michigan photographer, D. James Galbraith, from his beloved Irish portfolio.

From a young, D. James Galbraith was a seeker, a looker of the un-noticed and unwanted. The plain and simple life of common America. His start in photography came after high school while serving in the U.S Air Force as an aerial photographer in Alaska. After his military service, he began his long career as a photojournalist working for The Ann Arbor News, The Brighton Argus and The Livingston County Press. There he developed his creative voice and his photographs took on a deeper depth…

Read More in the Artist Statement

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