Christopher Michael Howard when in trouble (or in the presence of Hardy Wilson).
Dad at home in San Francisco.
Howie when in Tennessee or New Mexico.
Chris everywhere else.
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Specialty:
Translating the nonverbal tinyness of an individual's human condition into a pictorial form that elicits, for both subject and photographer, connection and understanding. That is, the portrait.
Excelling In:
Candid captures and details at events. You probably won't notice I'm there, but if there's life in the room imma find it. Like a navy seal with a camera. The day-job part of life-behind-lens.
Secretly Capturing:
- Bored women at society events next to alpha males and tech bros yammering on about some bullshit.
- Slivers/chunks/lines/wisps of hard light
- People or things adjacent to neon signs
- Chemex coffee filters, used, unfolded
- Statements in grafitti
- Ambiguous signs
- The post-industrial landscape
Paid Work:
- NY Times
- SF Chronicle
- Dom Perignon
- San Francisco Symphony
- Stanford University
- Apple
- North Face
- Genentech
- Wells Fargo
- Likely Your Company, Publication, Or One Very Similar
Art Work: Drift-y blurry time-bend-y landscapes. Big ones. Seen nowhere yet.
Social Media: Hell no. Hive minds and originality are not compatible. Human relationships require flesh and blood people.
Instagram is the most efficient way to become creatively generic. Facebook turns friends/loved ones into in-groups/out-groups.
My belief system is based on capacity and availability for human connection. Social media corrupts that.
Zuckerberg you have a standing invite to my place for dinner and a chat about all this nonsense. I'm ten houses up on the right. I hope I'm wrong.
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Contact: Text inquiries to 646-287-3628. There's also a box to the right you can type in, but I might not see it for several days. Email is evil.