A second-generation professional commercial photographer. Twenty-five years of antiques, fine art, architecture and product work — exacting, considered, and made to be published.
Versatile and creative professional commercial photography, built to meet the busy and exacting demands of today's business clients.
For over twenty-five years, Chris Challis has headed a practice serving the antiques and fine art trade, advertising, PR, hospitality and architecture — working on location across the UK and abroad, and never charging travel time within the United Kingdom.
Twelve bodies of work, drawn from tens of thousands of frames shot for dealers, estates, agencies, hoteliers and publishers. A small selection follows — the original archive is available on request.
Chris is a second-generation freelance professional — the practice built on craft, patience and an instinct for the subject in front of the lens.
For over twenty-five years he has run a commercial studio working in corporate, advertising and PR photography across a vast range of trades and professions. The work has established itself particularly within the antiques and fine art business, with commissions running continuously throughout the UK and internationally.
Skill and technique, refined over decades, give clients a choice of considered interpretations of the chosen subject. All work is shot on current professional digital equipment, and each commission is directed closely — every frame meeting the exact standard demanded.
Based a stone's throw from Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire — close to Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands — and on the road anywhere in the UK or worldwide.
A freelance practice able to turn its hand to a wide range of assignment work — drawing on years of staff publishing-house experience across many magazine titles.
Furniture to rare objects d'art. Catalogue, insurance, advertising and book commissions — varied in style and mood to the subject and the client.
Exteriors, high-end estate agency and development. Interior, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom work for designers, estate agents and developers.
Hotels, restaurants, public houses and guest houses. Corporate and PR imagery for the trade throughout the UK.
Brochure, catalogue and advertising product photography for manufacturers and retailers — including small-product and image-manipulation work.
Press release photography, annual reports, magazines and editorial — decades of publishing-house experience on the brief.
Garden, landscape and location views; exhibition and event coverage; aerial and on-location commissions.
LAPADA — the largest association of professional art and antiques dealers in the United Kingdom — counts some 600 members in the UK and over fifty in fourteen other countries. Chris Challis has photographed for LAPADA and their members continuously since 1991, including three desk diaries whose quality set the standard for much of the studio's later fine-art work.
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