After growing up in Louisville, Ky. then majoring in history at Kenyon College, Chris came to New York and worked for some of the top names in the field of fashion photography including Mike Reinhardt, Bert Stern, and Richard Avedon.
He launched his professional career in Europe - living in Paris and Milan. After 10 years of shooting fashion, Chris decided to move into the world of the inanimate and still life. His approach to stills is greatly influenced by his experience as a fashion photographer: creating a mood, telling a story, manipulating the light to produce compositionally strong, technically solid images that still feel loose and stand apart from the standard "still" fare.
Chris works for nearly all the major fashion publications including Vogue, British Vogue, Teen Vogue, Men's Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, InStyle, and Outside.
In addition to his commercial photography, Chris has started a personal project taking portraits of innocent Iraqis who have been tortured and abused while in the custody of the United States military and its surrogates. This project is part of the Moving Walls 15 Documentary Photography exhibit at the Open Society Institute in New York City. It is also available for viewing at Detaineeproject.org
The rest of Chris' time is spent traveling between his home in Connecticut and his New York studio and trying, sometimes vainly, to keep tabs on his teenage son and daughter. When he does have some free time it often involves jumping on a sailboard or kayak and for a moment anyway, leaving it all behind.