Chris grew up in Toronto, Canada; his father worked for the Kodak company, creating an early and natural connection to photography. Chris went on to study photography at Ryerson and in 1990 he moved to New York to establish himself as a sought after commercial and editorial photographer. He has published three books and has presented highly entertaining lectures about them: Presence: The Invisible Portrait, Uneasy: Portraits 1986-2016 and most recently Gentleman’s Club: Partners of Exotic Dancers. Chris’s work has won placement in the prestigious annual American Photography over forty times and he was the recipient of the Arnold Newman Portrait Prize. Quirky, humorous, ironic, conceptual with a twist of gravitas might be a few words used to describe Chris’s portraiture style.