Chris Shain is a successful and passionate creative commercial photographer with over 35 years experience making photographs on location for a wide range of clients in the corporate, industrial and architectural industries. He is currently the director of Images for Business
Following tertiary education as an engineer, He began his career working as a photographer’s assistant, including 10 years working alongside the Australian photographic icon David Moore. His photography has since been published widely in Australia and overseas. He has personal work in the Australian Photographers Collection and has been a finalist 3 times in the Head On portrait prize. He has documented major infrastructure projects, produced high quality images for annual reports and capability brochures, as well as architectural photography of domestic housing, significant heritage structures and major public buildings. His heritage and architectural work has been used in a wide range of books and publications that are in major collecting institutions including the Historic Houses Trust, the National Trust and the NSW Supreme Court.
The Head On photo festival in Sydney is a very interesting event, I was unable to go to the event as I was having an extended holiday in Europe. However I did put a print in to AddOn “AddOn is a non-competitive, anonymous, photographic exhibition......
from 2013 – A day trip to Bundanon near Nowra, the riverside property where iconic Australian artist Arthur Boyd lived, worked and was a source of ideas for a lot of his work. I always find it inspiring to visit museums and galleries – well......