About me:
Christopher Crawford

I am a fine art photographer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was born here in 1975; and this northeast Indiana city has been my home except for a year and a half spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fort Wayne isn’t the sort of place where you’ll find the monumental landscapes or ancient historical sites to which so many photographers gravitate. When I was young, I beleived that this would be a great damper on my creativity; but, I have found that I simply was not producing work that spoke from my heart.

My work since the late 90's has been a sort of documentation of the people, places, and little details and the thoughts and feelings that have shaped my life. My pieces are small and intimate, rarely larger than 6x9 inches. They are meant to be windows into my world rather than cold, stark graphic images that awe us with their grandeur. Such images are indeed beautiful, but they are often empty and unfeeling. They may express the sense of awe that artist feels about the place, but they do not tell us where he came from or where he is going.

My goal is for the viewer to understand the personal connection that I feel to each of my subjects. Northeast Indiana has always been my home, and my fascination with the landscape here has not abated in more than a decade of exploring and documenting my exploration of Indiana. The Allen County - Fort Wayne area has been such a bountiful source of inspiration that for many years, I did not make a single image outside of Allen County! I have, since then, photographed all over Indiana and across the country.

I still have an extensive list of places to photograph in the Hoosier state, and I have continued to make new discoveries since moving back from Santa Fe.

In 2002, I made the leap from the darkroom to the digital 'lightroom'. Today, all of my printing is done using digital processes. I still shoot film, primarily black and white, which I process myself. I then scan the negatives with my Nikon Medium format film scanner to bring them into the computer for manipulation and final output.

I am a full time professional artist, with a large number of group and individual exhibitions to my credit. I am also a graphic designer and web designer, and my fine art photographs have been used in a number of advertisements, magazine articles, and music CD covers.