Christopher Morris

Christopher Morris is one of the most celebrated photojournalists of the last four decades. A founding member of VII Photo Agency, he was on contract with TIME Magazine from 1990 to 2020, documenting close to 30 foreign conflicts and covering the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama as a member of the White House press pool. His work spans conflict, politics, power, and culture — from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the wars in Yugoslavia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Yemen and Panama, the first Gulf War, to the US invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring in Libya.

Morris is the recipient of numerous major awards including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Olivier Rebbot Award, the Infinity Award for Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography, and a multitude of World Press Photo awards. He has published two books with Steidl: My America was published in 2006 and Americans in 2012. Outside of TIME Magazine, has worked for a varied and long list of global publications worldwide.

In 2009, with TIME Magazine leaving the White House coverage. Morris was approached by the Italian fashion magazine AMICA, for an assignment in New York, after the Editor in Chief was shown a copy of his My America monograph. This led to a four year collaboration, bringing his unique journalistic craft to Milano and Paris, where he was based until 2017, documenting fashion, government leaders and celebrities for European clients.

In 2022 he started a long term grant on the environmental changes in his home state of Florida.

For the past years, he has been organizing his 40-year archives into what he likes to call a “Living Archive”.