I’m a photographer from Liverpool, I live in London. Most of what I make is in response to my everyday life, the people I meet, stories I hear, beauty in the everyday and the natural world.I studied an MA in Geography initially and have an ongoing interest in both natural and human worlds. I developed a specialist interest in my masters thesis on ways we can understand ‘place’. I later studied an MA in Documentary Photography in London. Alongside photography I also write.
I spent five years working with the homeless in a frontline role in London. During this time I combined my interests in the creative and social fields, developing a series of grassroots based educational projects for hard to reach groups under the title ‘The Photographer’s Tent’ – a reference to the early travelling photographers of the 19th Century with their mobile studio tents. I’ve run these projects with the street homeless in New York City, with marginalised young people in Wales, the Arabic community in Liverpool and in various homeless hostels in the UK.
Contact
christianmgpetersen@gmail.com
(UK +0044) 07752281386
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Clients
BBC
The Guardian
The Independent
The Telegraph
Christopher Kane
Jonathan Saunders
Posta
Port Magazine
Awards ;
2018 The Prix de la Photographie, Paris : Honourable mention