James Florio is a photographer based in Montana. He focuses on the built environment and the life around it. He works mostly with large format film. He often visits a place many times.
His book Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal was published by MAS Context in 2025. It shows the sculpture Inverted Portal at Tippet Rise Art Center. Over seven winters he climbed the hill to the sculpture 482 times with an 8x10 camera. The book has 36 color plates.
Sticks is a book with the sculptor Patrick Dougherty, published by Radius Books in 2025. It has 244 pages and 98 images.
In 2022 he received the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. He has been an artist in residence at Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana, and at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut.
