James McCarthy is an award-winning journalist and photographer who lives in Brunswick, Maine. His photographs have been shown in the juried May Show exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art four times. His work also has been shown in one-person exhibitions in Portland, Brunswick, Bath and Newagen, Maine; as well as in group exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art; the New Organization of Visual Artists in Cleveland; the Center for the Arts at the Chocolate Church in Bath, Maine; the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and Cleveland State University. He was one of 43 photographers selected to pursue documentary photography projects in Cleveland for the acclaimed 144-page book “Images from the Heart: A Bicentennial Celebration of Cleveland and Its People,” which was the official commemorative publication of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission that was published in 1995.