Over the last five years, Jim has also become equally renowned for his evocative photographic studies of the male nude. He had been an amateur photographer since high school. After he moved to Boston from Los Angeles in 1996, he enrolled in the New England School of Photography's evening workshops division in, where he studied black-and-white darkroom techniques with Nick Johnson. It was at that time that he was inspired to begin his project "Black & White Men."

Spada had his first one-man show in August 1998 at the Against the Grain Gallery in the artists' colony of Wellfleet on Cape Cod,  and another at Francesca's Gallery in Boston's South End in December of the same year. His third one-man show hung in the New England School of Photography's prestigious Gallery One in Boston from January 17 through  February 18, 2000.  Twenty images from his project "Edwardian Men" were displayed at the Radiant Light Gallery in Portland, Maine in September and October 2001. They were also exhibited at the Adonis Gallery at 145 Commercial Street in Provincetown throughout the fall of 2003.

"Edwardian Men," a hardcover collection of Jim's images, and "The Romantic Male Nude," a hardcover collection of Jim'sphotographs and images by 41 other international photographers, are now available for purchase on this site.