Photographer, writer, and multi-media producer James Higgins is the author of the graphic novel Nether World and co-author with Joan Ross of three documentary photography books: Lowell: A Contemporary View, Southeast Asians: A New Beginning in Lowell, and Fractured Identities: Cambodias Children of War. His Ephemera won first prize for experimental films in the VSM Film Festival in Hollywood, Calif. "The Kingdom of Kambuja," a multi-media performance work by Flying Orb, which he co-founded with dancers from the Angkor Dance Troup, received the Massachusetts Cultural Councils Gold Star Award. In the past fifteen years, Flying Orb Productions has created stage productions and related films featuring casts of Southeast Asian actors and dancers. Higgins signature work chronicling the renaissance of the historic textile mill city of Lowell, Massachusetts, and the notable settlement in the city of refugees from the Vietnam War and Khmer Rouge genocide has assured his place as one of the premier photographers of his generation. His photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Addison Gallery of American Art, and other galleries and museums. He lives in Lowell, Massachusetts.
