Jim Zola has worked in a warehouse, as a security guard, in a bookstore, as a teacher for deaf children, as a toy designer for Fisher-Price, and currently as a children’s librarian. Published in many journals through the years, his publications include a chapbook — ‘The One Hundred Bones of Weather’ (Blue Pitcher Press) — and a full-length poetry collection — ‘What Glorious Possibilities’ (Aldrich Press). He currently lives in Greensboro, NC.

I have always loved the photographic imagine — almost as much as the written word. While a young child, I fantasised that my eyes were cameras and every time I blinked I was capturing the image I was looking at. My photographs started out as very traditional artistic imagines but have grown strange and deep. I like shapes and colours and the merging of images. All of my photographs are taken using my phone.