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Jim McHugh (born 1948 in London, England) is an American portrait, and fine art photographer working in Los Angeles, California.

McHugh has exhibited and is included in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Polaroid Collection,  the Walker Center, and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Awarded First prize by The International Photography Awards for Fine Art Photography in 2007, and George Eastman House Best of Show in 2008 for architectural imagery of Los Angeles.

He is known for his large format Polaroid photographs of Los Angeles. In 2010 First exhibited a show titled "Let’s Get Lost: Polaroids From The Coast."at Timothy Yarger Fine Art. Gallerist Timothy Yarger described McHugh's work as evoking "a sense of wandering in L.A. and how easy it is to get lost in anonymity here in both an urban and natural sense."

While pursuing a master's degree at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, he became one of People magazine's original contributing photographers, creating portraits of celebrities such as Clint Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sir Anthony Hopkins. He has worked for many years as a contributing photographer to Architectural Digest, shooting environmental portraits that include Tina Turner, Kelsey Grammer, Wynona Rider, Candice Bergen, Sen. and Mrs. John McCain, and Anjelica Huston. McHugh worked with the Grammy Awards creating "The Grammy Image Project," a series of celebrity images that chronicled the history of music. Some of the musical legends included are Tony Bennett,Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, U2, Sheryl Crow, Sir Elton John, and BB King.

McHugh has published many books on artists, including "California Painters: New Work" and "The Art of Light and Space." His artist's portraits of David Hockney, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, John Baldessari, and Ed Ruscha among others, are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 1984 his first one man show was held at the James Corcoran Gallery. "Artists’ Portraits" was a broad photographic survey of the Los Angeles artist world. A photo David Hockney was the portrait used by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris during their grand reopening in 2000. Another Hockney portrait was acquired by The National Portrait Gallery of London. During 2011 the Yarger gallery exhibited “Los Angeles: 40 Artists - Photographs by Jim McHugh” with the Getty Museum and its "Pacific Standard Time" program, focusing on art in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1985.

Jim McHugh's mother was actress Shirley O'Hara, and his grandfather was legendary composer and songwriter Jimmy McHugh, who penned "I'm in the Mood for Love," "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby!"

Jim McHugh lives in Los Angeles with his wife Johnna & daughter Chloe.