Joseph Holmes (photographer)


Joseph E. Holmes is a color, natural light, landscape photographer from California. He is an innovator in the field of inkjet fine art print making, and has developed his own visual calibration software.

Life and work

Joseph Holmes has photographed wild landscapes for over 49 years.
He has patented a visual calibration system, which is part of the ColorBlind Prove it! software he authored for monitor calibration. He designed Ekta Space PS5, J.Holmes to cover the whole gamut of Ektachrome films as a large-gamut alternative to Adobe RGB; it can be usedwith any E6 film. He has also invented and patented the small gamut way of monochrome image printing. It ensures no colors are "clipped", when converted from the input color space, and that the characteristics of film stocks keep their fidelity.
Holmes is a pioneer in the comparatively recent development of using inkjet printers for fine art print making. He has said:
In July 2005, his exhibition, Wild Landscapes, at the Ordover Gallery, California, of "wild" areas of North County demonstrated 35 years spent in development of printing processes.
His publications include many posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two books of landscape photography: Joseph Holmes • Natural Light and Canyons of the Colorado.
His work is available through the Ansel Adams Gallery.

Books by Holmes