Chris Lee, United Kingdom

Chris Lee (born in U.K. December 1986) is a British photographer and filmmaker. With an observant curiosity in different cultures and a deep passion for storytelling, his work spans multiple disciplines inspired by story archetypes, human values and the collective unconscious. It is the nature of photography that provides him with an illusion of truth whereby he can begin to dissect reality, reflect life and create new stories.

Before obtaining a Masters Degree in Photography and Image-Making at Paris College of Art, he attended Central Saint Martins University of the Arts in London 2006 - 2009, studying Visual Communication, and later achieving a Visual Storytelling diploma at Les Gobelins, Paris, 2019. His film work includes ‘The Hedgehog’, an award winning short film and ‘The Piñata King’, a short documentary, both screening at several film festivals around the world. Collectively his original film work to date has over a million views online. In 2013, Chris co-founded 'Tripod City', a street photo collective that travels the world and has self published several photobooks. His street and documentary photography across Mexico, China and Ghana has been featured in ‘The Guardian’, ‘National Geographic and ‘Creative Review’ Photography Annual, as well as many online features including ‘It’s Nice That’, ‘I-D’ and ‘Dazed’.

Moving to a foreign country enabled an immersive, long term project exploring urbanism and city life in depth from the outsider’s perspective. Having written his thesis on ‘Paris des Rêves’, the 1950 photobook by Lithuanian immigrant Izis Bidermanas, his research led him to investigate how the city could be represented today, combining internal and external perspectives to question how we relate with the ever evolving environment that we inhabit.