Christopher James-Turley

Photographic artist working with analogue processes. Nottingham, UK.

Christopher has worked both as a commercial photographer, and a photographic artist since 2006. During his career he has applied the combined use of graphic design and film making with both digital and analogue photography. He currently works from his darkroom/studio in Nottingham, UK.

In 2012, when commissioned to create a small collection of event material, Christopher started to explore the concept of hand-finished graphic pieces. The result was a collection of individual posters, each printed as a one-off on aquarelle rag with elements of the poster removed and remaining artwork offset from a backboard. This concept gave each artwork a depth and movement, capturing light and shadow through the apertures in the piece. The tactility of these pieces instantly became and fascination for Christopher.

Combining this love of the hand-finished along with his obsessive hunger for technical photographic knowledge, naturally Christopher has found himself on a path through the analogue print process with a focus on fine-art pieces.