Bio - Sparks Photographers

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Chris grew up in Toronto, Canada; his father worked for the Kodak company, creating an early and natural connection to photography. Chris went on to study photography at Ryerson and in 1990 he moved to New York to establish himself as a sought after commercial and editorial photographer. He has published three books and has presented highly entertaining lectures about them: Presence: The Invisible Portrait, Uneasy: Portraits 1986-2016 and most recently Gentleman’s Club: Partners of Exotic Dancers. Chris’s work has won placement in the prestigious annual American Photography over forty times and he was the recipient of the Arnold Newman Portrait Prize. Quirky, humorous, ironic, conceptual with a twist of gravitas might be a few words used to describe Chris’s portraiture style. Scroll to watch Chris speak about his work and see the highlights of his portfolio.

Select Clients

Coca-Cola, Google, SAP , Hotels.com, Marriott Hotels, Oscar Mayer, Old Spice, Comedy Central, ESPN Sports, Nike, Finlandia, Viagra, Oreo, Pepsi, Diesel, Netflix, Liberty Mutual, Samsung, JetBlue, Microsoft, Xerox, Hitachi, Uber, Vitamin Water, Kia, TD Bank, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Invesco, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Criterion, Exiger, Klick Health, Hill Holliday, MRM, Mother, David & Goliath, BBDO, Droga5, McCann Erickson, Ogilvy & Mather Deutsch, 72 & Sunny, Hello, Arnold, McGarryBowen, J. Walter Thompson, Spot Co., Publicis, Leo Burnett, Weiden + Kennedy, Anomaly, R/GA, Grey, Our Man In Havana, Adam & Eve, Fallon, Kirshenbaum & Bond, MullenLowe,RK Associates, VSA

Awards

2021 Visionary Award, Image Arts at The Creative School [alumni Wall of Fame inductee] Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), graduated 1987. November 24. (Canada) 2007 Arnold Newman Portrait Prize, first recipient.

Chris’s portraits have won placement in the prestigious annual American Photography over 50 times, since 1997.

Books

2021 Gentlemen’s Club: Partners of Exotic Dancers. Monograph. Norman Stuart Publishing, Montclair NJ. 2017 Uneasy: Portraits 1986-2016. Monograph. Norman Stuart Publishing, New York NY. 2012 Presence: The Invisible Portrait. Monograph. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. (Germany)

Chris Buck

I like to invite you as the viewer into a little story but not necessarily tell you how it turns out.