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College / University: spent one year in college, preparing for a career in Photojournalism, which I never pursued

Program: mostly was involved in Alcohol Research, and exploring the world of Herbal Magic

I am...: working on lots of things, every time I pick up a camera, it's an adventure,
and when IT happens, it's magic

About my artwork: my images are like stepping stones, each only represents where I was at the time, and hopefully in the making of each, I learned, or was able to take another step towards where I was going, which, frankly, is an evolving journey and the destination seems to always getting further away, and I will only know where or what I am looking for when I find it,
but it is a fascinating, difficult, demanding, maddening, frustrating, occasionally totally rewarding journey, and I would not trade it for anything
The creative drive, and the will, determination, practice and pursuit of more and better, is what distinguishes us from the "average", and also is a form of madness, but one that if you are afflicted with, you are indeed fortunate.

Artists I like: Maxfield Parrish, Rembrandt, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa,Ansel Adams,Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Larry Burrows,many Chinese painters, I am very much into representational images, I interned all through high school at a metro newspaper that put out 2 editions a day, I ran the photo lab, and in that setting, the goal was to produce images that got something across, conveyed a story even at a glance, but I find myself more and more pursuing simpler more elemental things....and nuances,
we change and evolve, and hopefully begin to understand the nature of things

Interests: the nature of things, making progress, and having a good time and learning in the process, it's the journey...

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: I have no idea, my main source of exposure to other's work is this site, and the people I know locally who are making things, in a variety of media

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At 5:17pm on 29th November 2008, Adamo Macri said…: Hey, Chris nice meeting you also and thank you for the kind words. Will you be uploading any of your photography? Adamo

At 6:00pm on 30th August 2008, Ekaterina Alexander said…: Hello Chris, I have been away from Art Review and the UK and am now working on a new series combining abstraction and citylandscape, I would very much like to know your opinion and thank you for still being a member of my group, hope you will join me as a friend again, Ekaterina

At 9:20pm on 2nd July 2008, Gasin Trossen said…: Hello Chris. I agree with what you said. Thank you for your encouraging words. Have a wonderful day.

At 4:06pm on 30th June 2008, adriana baltazar said…: Thanks so much I really appreciate your thoughts. and I see a similarity in our work as far as the beauty we seek to capture and thus share. Cheers!

At 3:10am on 17th April 2008, amal chidiac said…: well yeah! i think what you said is true as well :)

At 8:24pm on 14th April 2008, amal chidiac said…: i can't agree more. i guess we gotta find a way to make our surroundings interesting and look at em from another perspective, then that sort of weird feeling that the new places or whatever we're not used to give us might come, the fascination... Good luck and Good day

At 6:34pm on 14th April 2008, amal chidiac said…: what a story!! made me love those kids more!
Tha's so great Ice Cream Man!! :)

At 6:04pm on 14th April 2008, amal chidiac said…: Thanks Chris. really appreciate it. Your photos are awesome the one titled Gentlefolk in particular is tight :)

Cheers