James Kao
Torrance, CA, United States
Sports and travel photographer James Richard Kao has spent most of his life in Southern California but considers his office the world. He has traveled to all seven continents and early in life excelled at drawing and sketching. He studied landscape architecture at Cornell University and Real Estate Development at USC and has spent much of his professional career as a city and urban planner. In 2008, James picked up digital photography to document his adventure travels and this soon blossomed into an insatiable passion that saw him start a new career as a photographer only five years later. He has won several national awards in the U.S. for his sports and travel work and has been published in Triathlete, Trail Runner and Hana Hou! magazines. Besides photography, James has a passion for outdoor adventure sports, books, music and gelato.
2015 - Samy's Camera Sports Action Contest, 2015 - B&H Explore Creatively Contest , 2015 - PDN Great Outdoors Contest, 2015 - PDN World in Focus Contest, 2015 - PDN Sports + Action Contest, 2016 - PDN Adrenaline Sports + Action Contest
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Sports
