Chris Shaw (photographer)


Chris Shaw is an English documentary photographer.

Career

Shaw studied at West Surrey College of Art & Design from 1986-89.
In his 2006 monograph Life as a Night Porter, Shaw published photographs taken over a ten-year period whilst working as a night porter at certain London hotels, "all the time he kept his camera with him, recording in black and white grainy photographs the many strange events that he witnessed, taking pictures." In 2004 Alexander McQueen and Nick Knight chose the pictures as the winning entry in an Independent on Sunday fashion photography competition.
Shaw works with independent publishers and he has created small editions of several photographic series include: Retrospecting Sandy Hill,Life as a Night Porter, Weeds of Wallasey, horizon icons, Tokyo in HK, The Hunter gets captured by the game.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, journalist John Preston said, "Shaw remains an evasive, almost blurry character who seems to belong in the shadows and who can't bear being stuck in one place for too long."
His working practice is mostly negative based, and heavily worked hand printed archival fibre-based black and white or colour prints. He believes in a physical contact between the materials and the photographer that produces them to form a photograph.His subjects range from night life to Landscape.

Publications

Publications by Shaw

Shaw's work is held in the following permanent collections: