Christopher Anderson was born in Canada and grew up in west Texas. He first gained recognition for his pictures in 1999 when he boarded a handmade, wooden boat with Haitian refugees trying to sail to America. The boat, named the Believe In God, sank in the Caribbean. In 2000 the images from that journey would receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal.
Christopher is a member of Magnum Photos. He is the author of four monographs of photography.

Publications

2003 - "Nonfiction" DeMo
2009 - "Capitolio" RM
2012 - "Sete # 12" Images En Manœuvres
2013 - "Son" Heidelberg: Kehrer
2018 - "Approximate Joy" Stanley Barker
2020 - "Pia" Stanley Barker

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003 – Nonfiction, InCamera, New York
2010 – Capitolio, ImageSingulieres, Sete, France
2010 – Capitolio, Milk Gallery, New York
2010 – Moda, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2011 – Son, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia
2012 – Son, Magnum Gallery, Paris

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 - Inviati di Guerra – otto reportages fotografici 1991-2003 - Scavi Scaligeri. Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Verona
2004 - War by VII / Usa – Afghanistan – Iraq - War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik
2004 - War – New York, Kabul, Baghdad - Visual Gallery photokina, Köln
2006 – Off Broadway - PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2008 – Magnum Photos 60 years - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2009 - Magnum Contemporary – Future Icons - Atlas Gallery, London
2009 - Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan - Magnum Print Room, London
2009 - Prix Pictet, Photography Prize 2009 - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2009 - Prix Pictet 2009 Shortlist – Earth - Passage de Retz, Paris
2010 - Earth Tracks - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloninki
2010 - Prix Pictet – Earth - Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2010 - Nominierung Prix Pictet 2009: Earth - Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
2010 - Magnum. Shifting Media. New Role of Photography - C/O Berlin, Berlin
2010 - Prix Pictet - Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milan

Awards

1999 - Kodak Young Photographer of the Year
2000 - Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by The New York Times Magazine
2000 - Robert Capa Gold Medal
2005 - Magazine Photographer of the Year
2008 - Getty Grant
2007 - World Press Photo
2008 - World Press Photo

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