Hi, I’m Chris
I fell in love with photographs long before I picked up a camera.
As a kid, I spent hours going through my parents’ old black and white photographs. Faces I’d never met. Relatives I knew only through a print. Those photographs were how I learned who my family was. I still have every one of them.
It’s why I love the printed image. A portrait on your wall becomes part of everyday life. Years from now, your children will look at it and see who was there. How young they were. How you held them.
I’m a dad of two, and I’ve photographed my own kids through every stage so far. The baby stage, the toddler stage, the stage where they’d rather not be photographed at all. Each one went faster than I expected. I’m so glad I have those milestone photographs to take me back.
My portrait work won second prize at the Head On Photo Festival. My photography has also been exhibited and recognised in the Bowness Photography Prize, Photometria International Photography Festival, the Centre for Contemporary Photography and the Olive Cotton Awards.
For you, that means I look for personality, not perfection. I pay close attention to light and to the little expressions between people, so your portraits feel like artwork and unmistakably like your family.
I’m easy going, and love working with children of every age and parents who feel nervous in front of a camera. You don’t need to know how to pose. I’ll guide you, with room for your children’s own ideas along the way.
If you’d like to talk it through first, I’d love to hear about your family. There’s no pressure to book.