PHOTOGRAPHERS

Christopher T. Finch

Christopher T Finch is a Fine Art Practitioner who seeks to challenge and explore the conventions of human perception through imagery.

He was born in Bolton Hospital in 1990 and has lived in Lancashire all his life. Though his studies and photographic practice have taken him all around the country.

Having spent the last five years studying photography at post-secondary level (A-Level – Undergraduate), Christopher has experimented and theoretically studied photography and art. Incidentally, during this period he has won an award for the best photograph in a regional competition, hosted by Manchester Art Gallery. His work was exhibited there as a result of this. He has also shown his work at various local galleries within the Northern Region. These include recent shows at the Cultural Urban Center and the Domino Gallery in Liverpool.

His work combines both the primitive home-made cameras and digital technology, to provide unique avant-garde pieces of work. There is the serendipity of the viewfinder-less camera, alongside the controlled digital manipulation. Through this Christopher strives to make powerful 2D art, in a way that brings people to think about the way we understand and interpret ‘reality’.

Recent work includes a collaboration with the Regional North West BBC Presenters (Gordon Burns, Ranvir Singh, Dianne Oxberry, Tony Livesy and Heather Stone). This was for a project entitled ‘Life Mask Portraiture’, which is driven with the intent of providing an ambiguous (and unique) style of portraiture. Its comment is on how we perceive people in photographs, especially those who we presume as being part of ‘normal’ daily life.

As his inspiration once said (Surrealist Author, Louis Aragon), “Certainty is not reality.” Such theoretical discourses are what drive this artist in his practice of articulating the world around him. He hopes to stimulate a new culture of curiosity towards the world we live in. In so doing, we may gain a greater insight into the social injustices that prevail in contemporary society and further their resolution.

For more information on Christopher T. Finch’s group show Closed: http://www.look2011.co.uk/whats-on/closed-group-show/

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