Comic creator Stephen White pays tribute to Scottish artist Jim Dallas, who produced work in a variety of mediums, including photography, video, music and the written word.
A proud Scot and campaigner, he “loved making things, creating experiments and looking after people.” He was appointed One Stop Shop Coordinator at Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action just last year.
Jim, who acknowledged the late Crawford Cumming as a mentor last year, recently recalled how he was given an Agfa 110 camera one Christmas as a child, just like the James Bond spy camera. “I ended up as a professional photographer and had five sessions with Sean Connery including Freedom of Edinburgh.”
Remembering Jim, by Stephen White
The world lost a very special person: my dear old pal, Jim Dallas.
I worked on my very first published cartoon strips with Jim: “The City Of Dreams”, which appeared in The Big Issue in 1995. Jim wrote four of these stories, and we published them anonymously as the Spacemen.
Below is one of the stories, that shows his unique perspective on the world and his amazing sense of humour.
Jim was also a first-rate photographer (we met when he was photographer for Dundee City Council, and I joined the graphic design team as an illustrator), a demon on the guitar…and would give you a pretty decent game of backgammon, too.
My thoughts are with all his family. Going to miss you loads, buddy.
Stephen White
Jim Dallas, photographer, artist, musician, born 2nd September 1959, died 31st August 2023 | Jim’s website is at photogael.com
“The other times were for the SNP. I spent forty minutes, just me and him in a room. That was incredible privilege. We are both from Fountainbridge and we both done the milk. He called me an anarchist in a hotel lift with Alex Salmond and Mike Russell.”
• Jim’s website is at photogael.com
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