Keith James

Keith is a photographer and writer with a background in science and technology, living in Coronado, California with his life-partner, Marianne. Originally from Wales, he retired recently after a long career in drug discovery at both major pharma and start-up biotech companies. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London, holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cambridge University, and spent two years as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and Fulbright-Hays travel scholar at Stanford University in California and Columbia University in New York. Keith’s most recent role was as Senior Vice-President of Drug Discovery at a San Francisco Bay Area-based biotech company, insitro, applying machine learning to the challenges of discovering new medicines. He enjoys photography in both colour and black and white, and is particularly interested in architecture, travel, music and abstract photography. He shoots primarily with Leica cameras and lenses, as well as third party gear within the L-Mount ecosystem. Keith has recently begun to try his hand at rangefinder photography.