Chris Parker

Using photographic methods I have developed over my lifetime as a professional photographer, I create Art Photographs. The work you see here in this collection has been manipulated to make abstract art. Photographs of the subject were changed to look more like patterns and shapes with strong, vibrant colours.

"Photography is not like painting," Cartier-Bresson told The Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative, the Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

A freelance photographer, Chris has worked for National Newspapers, The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, and The New York Times. PR companies with clients Vivienne Westwood, Levi Jeans, Jasper Conran, John Galliano, and Bruce Oldfield. Magazines for publishing companies EMAP, The Financial Times, Haymarket Publishing, and Thompson Publishing. With clients in the financial business supplying photography for company reports and brochures.

Lindisfarne College 1976.
Worked in London for Brian Phipps, advertising photographer, apprenticeship1980.
Freelance in 1981.
Work as an artist creating images using digital and traditional photography. Images are for sell through galleries and privately.

Private exhibition, London 1997

The Vault London 1999

The Arc Stockton on Tees 2016

Arts Bank 2017

Palace Arts Gallery 2018