Paul Collins, originally from Toronto, has lived and worked in Paris since 1982. He has shown in Toronto at A Space, YYZ and Mercer Union. He recently released an album of electronic music with the French composer J.J. Palix. He worked as a camera operator and image-maker at the Coach House between 1977 and 1981.

Jim→, the exhibition accompanying the Coach House book co-authored with John Armstrong, has travelled widely in Canada and Europe, most recently to the Montreal Photography Biennial in 2005.