Chris Shaw (photographer)

Chris Shaw (born 1961) is an English documentary photographer.[1][2][3]

An image from Life as a Night Porter (2006)

Career

Shaw studied at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) from 1986-89.[4]

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."[5] 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 (2015morelboks),Life as a Night Porter (Twinpalms–2006), Weeds of Wallasey (superlabo2012), horizon icons(adad publishers) (2015), Tokyo in HK (with Tokyo Rummando, (zenphoto2017), The Hunter gets captured by the game (Zenphoto2019).

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."[2]

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
  • Life as a Night Porter. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2006. ISBN 978-1931885508. Edition of 2000 copies.
  • Before And After Night Porter. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2012. ISBN 9783868283211.
  • Weeds of Wallasey. Kamakura, Japan: Super Labo, 2013. ISBN 978-4-905052-58-6. Edition of 500 copies.
  • Retrospecting Sandy Hill. London: Morel, 2015. ISBN 978-1-907071-58-4. Edition of 500 copies.
  • Horizon Icons. London: ADAD, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9576923-3-6. Edition of 500 copies
  • Sohollondon. London: Morel, 2018. ISBN 978-1-907071-69-0. Edition of 250 copies.
  • Tokyo in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Zen Photo Gallery, 2018. ISBN 978-4-9054-53-69-7. Edition of 500 copies.
  • The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game. Hong Kong: Zen Photo Gallery, 2019. ISBN 978-4-905453-85-7. Edition of 500 copies.
  • Golden Bitch. Paris: Inbetween Gallery / Shaw, 2019. ISBN 979-10-699-4177-9. Edition of 250 copies.

Publications with others
  • Far East Obsession. Hiroshi Onishi, 2015. By Mark Pearson, Shaw and Tokyo Rumando. Edition of 500 copies.

Exhibitions
  • Life as a Night PorterPhoto; Erick Franck; Weinstein Gallery; Danziger Gallery; Threesa Luissoti at Paris Photo, 2013; Landskrona Sweden Fotofestival, 2015;[6][7] Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia. Part of the photo festival in Perm, May 2012.
  • Before and After Night Porter, Tokyo Photo, September 2011. Exhibited as a guest of Tate museum and curator Simon Baker.
  • Life as a Night Porter and Weeds of Wallasey, Moscow House of Photography, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, May–June 2014[8][9]
  • Weeds of Wallasey, Aura Gallery, Beijing; Zen Gallery, Tokyo, October 2012 – June 2014.
  • Chris Shaw and Moriyama: Before and After Night, Tate Britain, London, October 2013 – March 2014. Shaw's Life as a Night Porter, Sandy Hill Estate and 'Weeds of Wallasey as well as photographs by Daidō Moriyama.[10]
  • Weeds of Wallasey, Exposure, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 2015. Shaw with Alex F. Webb, David Fathi, Francesca Seravalle, Marianne Bjørnmyr, Boris Eldagsen, George Miles, Karl Ohiri, and others.[11][12][13]
  • Horizon Icons, Rue Visconti Gallery, Paris, November 2015
  • Night Porter, Agnesb gallery, Paris, February 2016
  • Small Mornings, In between Gallery, Paris, January–February 2018[14]

Collections

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

References
  1. O'Hagan, Sean (29 November 2015). "Chris Shaw: 'Art college was full of rich kids so I used my camera to speak to normal people'". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  2. John Preston Night Moves The Daily Telegraph, 19 November 2006.
  3. Compton, Nick (28 October 2013). "Chris Shaw's 'Night Porter' meets Daido Moriyama's demimonde photography at Tate Britain |". Wallpaper.com. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  4. https://chrisshaw.carbonmade.com/about
  5. "Saatchi Gallery". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  6. "PRESS INFORMATION : WORLD-FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS AT LANDSKRONA FOTOFESTIVAL, AUGUST-15" (PDF). Landskronafoto.org. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  7. "Festival". Landskrona Foto. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  8. "Chris Shaw photography exhibition returns to Russia | News — The Calvert Journal". Calvertjournal.com. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  9. "Photographer Chris Shaw Makes Present Seem Like History | Arts and Ideas". The Moscow Times. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  10. "BP Spotlight: Chris Shaw and Moriyama: Before and After Night Porter". Tate. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  11. "Chris Shaw". Format International Photography Festival. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  12. "Pearson: Exposure". Format International Photography Festival. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. Diane Smyth. "What to see at Format, Britain's biggest photography festival | British Journal of Photography". Bjp-online.com. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  14. "record vol. 33 CHRIS SHAW – Small Mornings". inbetween art gallery. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  15. "Carnegie Museum of Art". Cmoa.org. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  16. "Chris Shaw born 1967". Tate. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  17. "Collection of Iconic Photographs Donated to". Tate. 1 May 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  18. "Life as a night porter / [Chris Shaw]. - Getty Research Institute [Alma]". Primo.getty.edu. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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