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Christopher Anderson
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Christopher Anderson. Son #41
“When my first child was born in 2008, I began photographing the experience in a completely organic and naïve way, as any father would. My photographic life began as a photojournalist, some would use the term “war photographer,” and it never occurred to me that these images would have anything to do with my “work.”
These images were, in my mind, completely separate…maybe I didn’t even think of them as photographs. These were just pictures of my family. It wasn’t until about two years into his life that it dawned on me that not only were these photographs part of my work, they were the core of my work. Everything I had done before was just to prepare me for making these pictures now of my immediate experience. Around the same time, my father became ill.
It is fair to say that I was reflecting on obvious themes of the seasonal nature of life, and the joy of new life and the melancholy of its passing. I recognized that what I was experiencing and photographing was at the same time the most universal experience one could have and the most unique. I now understood things about my father’s relationship to me through the relationship I was now forming with my own boy. The title, SON, was as much about me, the son, as it was about my child.”
— Christopher Anderson
Selected Works
Christopher Anderson
Son #1, 2009
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Christopher Anderson
Son #59, 2009
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Christopher Anderson
Son #49, 2009
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Christopher Anderson
Son #24, 2009
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Christopher Anderson
Son #56, 2009
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Christopher Anderson
Son #27, 2009
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Artist
Christopher Anderson
1970 (Canada)
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Christopher Anderson is known for his emotionally charged, artfully drawn images that explore themes of truth and subjectivity. He is one of today’s most influential photographers, whose origins began in war reporting and later transformed into something more intimate, blending the worlds of commercial, art and fashion work, but always with a foundation in documentary.
Anderson was born in Canada and grew up in west Texas. His photographic career began working for local newspapers. In 2000, on assignment for the New York Times Magazine, he boarded a small wooden boat with 44 Haitians trying to sail to America. The boat sank in the Caribbean. The photographs received the Robert Capa Gold Medal and marked the beginning of a ten-year period as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine and National Geographic Magazine. In 2011 he became New York Magazine’s first ever Photographer in Residence; a notable collaboration that would also mark Anderson’s shift into portraiture and fashion, making images of significant figures including Barack Obama, Spike Lee and Debby Harry.
In 2008, after the birth of his first child, Anderson moved further away from journalistic magazine work to subjects more immediate to his personal experience. In 2012, his book, SON, was published, defining a visual direction that has come characterize to his work. Other projects created within this intensely intimate approach include Capitolio, Stump and Approximate JOY.
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Christopher Anderson: The War Photographer Who Turned His Lens to Family
AnOther Magazine (article)
