Christopher Erin was born in San Francisco. He began photographing at the age of three, and hasn’t stopped.Moving to a large format camera in 1987 changed the way he photographed. The slow, cumbersome equipment allowed for a more meditative approach. The broad landscape was his starting point, slowly minimizing his angle of view over the past two decades. In 2013 he moved into ultra large format cameras, 12x20” and 20x24”, making wet collodion plates from scratch, as they did in the 1850’s. Chris sold his creative photographs for nearly 30 years at nationally recognized art festivals. He has won dozens of awards for his work- among them, St. Louis Art Festival, Sausalito, Brookside, Mill Valley, Sun Valley. He was co-owner of Two Visions gallery in California, from 2000-2006. His photographs have been published in many publications, including Black and White Magazine, View Camera Magazine and in two monographs: Qualities of Light (Crean Editions, 2000) and The Essence of Form (Crean Editions 2005). His classic black and white prints are made from 4x5” negatives, developed in pyro, then scanned and are digitally printed. Silver gelatin darkroom prints are also available.