Name James Sidney | Role Author | |
James Sidney (born 1972) is an author, photographer and filmmaker born in Australia in but was raised in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
Sidney's photography has been featured in Canadian Geographic, Nature Canada, Photo Life, The Globe and Mail, The National Post and others. His first coffee-table book, Images of Our Inheritance, published by Whitecap Books, explored Canada's endangered landscapes through essays and photography. His second book, The Warrior's Path, published by Key Porter Books and Shambhala, is a collection of photographs and interviews with historically significant martial artists.
As a filmmaker, Sidney has produced documentaries for Canadian environmental and governmental agencies. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on O-Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, the recognized "father of Canadian karate."