Chris Floyd (photographer)

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Chris Floyd
Born1968
OccupationPhotographer

Chris Floyd (born 1968) is a British photographer based in London. [1] [2] He is known chiefly for his celebrity portraiture and reportage, beginning with the Britpop music scene in the 1990s. He also works with fashion [3] and advertising photography and film. In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users.

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Life and work

A portrait by Floyd of the band Bim in 2010. Bim floyd.jpeg
A portrait by Floyd of the band Bim in 2010.

Floyd was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. [2] He started taking photographs when he was 14 and in 1988 completed a BTec Photography course. He moved to London in 1990 and pursued a career in photography. [2] As a young photographer, he took photographs of The Orb, which appeared in the music magazine Select . [4] In 1994, Floyd started working for Loaded as well as The Face and Dazed & Confused magazines. [5] His photography in this period is strongly associated with the era of Britpop. [5]

His work has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , American and British Esquire , Vogue , Vanity Fair , The New Yorker , Harpers Bazaar , GQ , Wallpaper* and Guardian Weekend .[ citation needed ]

He was selected for the National Portrait Gallery, London's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2008 [2] [6] and 2013.[ citation needed ]

In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users, One Hundred and Forty Characters. [2] [7] [8] [9]

Publications

Publications by Floyd

Publications with contributions by Floyd

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Chris Floyd Q&A". The Daily Telegraph. 12 June 2012. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. Desmond, Sally (30 January 2016). "'Sheer nepotism': Brooklyn Beckham Burberry shoot angers photographers". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 January 2019 via www.theguardian.com.
  4. 1 2 "Chris Floyd". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 Abraham, Amelia (18 December 2014). "Shit Pubs, 'Loaded' and the Gallagher Brothers: Chris Floyd Shot the Height of Britpop" . Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  6. "National Portrait Gallery - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  7. "Portraits of my favourite tweeters – in pictures". The Guardian. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  8. Magazine, Wallpaper* (3 October 2011). "Wallpaper* Tweet Life project by Chris Floyd". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  9. Coomes, Phil (2 November 2011). "One Hundred & Forty Characters" . Retrieved 21 January 2019 via www.bbc.co.uk.