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Jim Olive is the creator of Stockyard Photos, a stock and assignment photography company providing exceptional quality images in both digital and print media. Jim is a native Houstonian whose work has been featured in publications and corporate boardrooms throughout the world. For over 40 years, Jim has been on assignment in over 90 countries for such entities as Time-Life, Paris Match, Polaris Images and numerous major corporations including: Aramco/Saudi Arabia, Sunoco, Mundy Companies, Valero, Hercules Offshore, Halliburton, ConocoPhillips, CBRE, CH2MHill/Egypt and the Chinese government among others. In the seventies he was a contributing photographer and member of the prestigious New York stock photo agency, Image Bank. At the end of his five-year contract he went on to become the Director/Photographer of International Development for the Washington D.C. Uniphoto Picture Agency until the mid-eighties. He then founded his own stock photo agency, Stockyard Photos, and operates it to this day.
Living in Houston and capturing its spirit and its people, Jim has created thousands of images assembling a significant collection of Houston & Texas stock photography. Stockyard’s image galleries include high quality stock photos of the oil industry, longhorn cattle, culture, Houston's glittering skyline, the Port and NASA's Johnson Space Center. He has also worked for over 35 years photographing high tech developments at the world renowned Texas Medical Center where he has worked in surgery alongside such gifted surgeons as Dr. Denton Cooley and Dr. Michael DeBakey. His stock photo collection is the ultimate source for images of all things Houston & Texas related and his images are continually featured in publications both locally and internationally. For over twenty years, he has served as photographer for 'The Greater Houston Convention and Visitor's Guide to Houston' along with several years as contributing photographer to the Greater Houston Partnership. He has several photography books on Houston to his credit and has contributed to numerous others.
For the past 6 years Jim has documented mainland China, creating relationships and working with photographer's organizations and individual photographers. Jim has built close ties to the Chinese community, both in China and the US, and sits on the Board of the Houston - Shenzhen Sister City Association. Jim is a member of the Shenzhen Professional Photographer's Association and with Chinese Press credentials, he is the only Westerner honored to be included in this group of World Press Association award winning international photographers. Jim also works with the government sponsored Chinese Photographer's Association at the invitation of the former Consul General of China. His work featuring 'Native Images' a selection of Houston images was displayed in Shenzhen at the request of the Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Department. He recently returned from photographing the Beijing 2008 Olympic venues, most notably the National stadium known as the 'Bird's Nest'. He currently is working with a 200,000 member photo enthusiast website setting up a tutorial on stock photography to create a vehicle for their members to submit images to his company for distribution to major stock photo agencies around the world.
Jim is heavily involved with his community in east Houston and is the on the Executive Board of Directors of the East Downtown Management District. He also serves on the Board of the US-China People's Friendship Association and the Chinatown Community Development Corporation. He also serves as an advisor to the Photography Department at the Houston Art Institute. His concern for the environment is exemplified as a life member of the Galveston Bay Foundation and his own 501(C)3 non-profit Christmas Bay Foundation. He collaborated with noted environmental attorney, Jim Blackburn, to produce and photograph 'The Bays of Texas', a book published by Texas A & M University Press, documenting the environmental concerns and conditions of the entire Texas bay system from Louisiana to Mexico. He was honored to be chosen by the Environmental Protection Agency as one of fifty photographers to document the US environment for Project Documerica and the Library of Congress. His photos appear regularly in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Texas Fish & Game and other outdoor publications. He is an alumnus of Sam Houston State University and a member in good standing of the Beta Beta Beta Biological Fraternity.
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