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About Photojournalist John Hills
John Hills was born in Jamaica, educated in England and calls Hawaii and India his home. He started working as a professional photographer in 1974 when Olympus lent him two newly launched OM1 SLRs with an assortment of lenses.
From his Mill Valley, California studio, shooting for ad agencies with Nikons and Hasselblads was bread and butter business but his true passion was multi media; what he called "painting with light". In one assignment for Star Wars producers Meredith and Gary Kurtz, John Hills created a series of visual laser and photography shows The Sounds of Space, staged with a live orchestra conducted by the composer
John Williams.
Twenty years before Photoshop John Hills was fascinated by the concept of "Image 1 + Image 2 = Image 3". These were double exposures and slide sandwiches, a technique he shared with Ernst Haas who became a friend and inspiration. John Hills also studied glamor photography with Peter Gowland, inventor of the 4x4 Gowlandflex and taught photography classes called "The Joy of Seeing".
Living on Maui for 30 years John Hills was editor-in-chief of three magazines, winning numerous awards for journalism and photography. Having worked for Indira Gandhi in the early seventies, India beckoned and eventually became his favorite photographic canvas. With his daughter Angelina Hills following in her father's footsteps as one of Hawaii's top photographers John now travels continuously, specializing in photojournalism and fine art.
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