photographer
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Chris Saunders has been a photographer for over 10 years, during which time he has photographed many well known authors, actors, film directors, musicians, comedians and had the resulting work published in numerous publications worldwide. Clients include The Guardian, The Observer, Sony, EMI, Universal Records, Random House Publishing, & Harper Collins Publishing.
"My basic history is I became interested in photography twenty or so years ago after borrowing a friend's SLR to photograph this really cool cat I had at the time. Got the bug straight away, packed in playing in bands, went to college & learnt the basics. Straight afterwards I went to University in Manchester to continue studying photography. The first well known person I shot while a student was the comedian Bill Hicks - I loved his stuff so I went down on the day of the show he was playing in town, hung around for him to turn up & asked him if he'd be up for having his photograph taking. He was. "If you don't ask you don't get" became my motto.
After that shoot I got to know the manager of the big bookstore in Manchester where they'd have lots of well known people doing readings to plug their books & he let me photograph them in his office beforehand (wherever you are - thank you Matthew). I built up my portfolio that way & a couple of shots from this period are on this site. I left university, pretty much gave up photography for a few years (long story), then got back into it properly about 10-11 years ago.
Since then I've photographed Oscar winning actors, guitar legends, & many of my favourite film directors, authors, comedians, & musicians. It's occasionally said by other portrait photographers that they regard their portraits as a document of themselves meeting their subject first & foremost. I feel exactly the same way. Really I'm a glorified autograph hunter and I get the same buzz creating a good photograph of someone whose work I admire as I did when I was a kid & I got Phil Lynott's autograph after waiting for ages outside Sheffield City Hall in the pouring rain."
Enough guff about me. Go back & look at the pics..