Christopher James is an internationally known artist and photographer whose photographs, paintings, prints and alternative process works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including solo and group exhibitions in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston. Represented by the Lee Witkin Gallery in New York City for over two decades he has also exhibited at Pace-McGill (NYC), Contrasts Gallery (London), Michelle Chomette (Paris), Hartje Gallery and Photokina (Berlin), Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), Rosa Esman Gallery (New York), Carpenter Center (Harvard) and Lizardi Harp Gallery (Los Angeles). Christopher has published extensively including Aperture, Camera (Switzerland), American Photographer, Solstice (for short fiction), and Interview magazine and in books such as The Antiquarian Avant Garde, á Prova de Aguà: Waterproof, Human Documents, and Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print (China).

All three editions of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes have received international critical acclaim and are universally recognized by artists, curators, historians, and educators as the definitive text in the genre of alternative photography and photographically integrated media. A significantly expanded 900 page / 700 image, 3rd edition, was published in 2016. Christopher, after 13 years as an Associate Professor at Harvard University, is presently a University Professor and former Director of the MFA in Photography and Integrated Media program at Lesley University College of Art and Design. He received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and his masters from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a photographer, printmaker, painter, graphic designer, author and a professional scuba diver.

Christopher offers individually customized alternative process workshops, portfolio reviews, text and exhibition editing and consultations in his Dublin, NH studio or remotely on Zoom. 

 Christopher’s web site is https://www.christopherjames-studio.com