Smith began his photographic interest as a child. Finding early inspiration from the redundant cornish mines and queries that interspersed family holidays, his curiosity was fed by these architectural signals of human history, left behind on our landscape.
He continued to study photography at Staffordshire University. It was during his studies he was inspired by the American New-Topographic Movement and began his own contemporary documentary records of the Defunct Pottery Industry that surrounded the British Midlands.
After arriving in Hackney, London, Jamie began his professional life working with young design journals photographing the bubbling local art scene, whilst continuing his documentary work inspired by the industrial landscapes he encountered during his degree work.
Jamie splits his time between Vienna and London, working on rrofessional and dditorial commissions for publications and agencies.
