Jim Reed's Photography Style

Jim Reid was born in Springfield, Illinois, where he experienced all kinds of bad weather, such as ice wind.

Storm, snowstorm, flood, hurricane ... Later, his mother gave him a camera, which aroused his interest in images. After graduating from film major, he worked in film production, but he found that four-fifths of his work was due to the weather.

Due to the interruption, Reid suddenly realized: "I put the camera in the wrong direction, and the camera should actually point to the sky!" " Since then, he has turned his attention to extreme weather photography.

He is recognized as one of the most outstanding extreme climate photographers in the world. During his professional photography career of nearly 20 years, he tracked as many as 357 storms and experienced 17.

A large hurricane, filmed 60

Several tornado documentaries have been invited as consultants to deal with hurricane special effects in the film The Day After Tomorrow. His works have been published in National Geographic, The New York Times, Time and other famous newspapers and magazines.