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CULTURES OF THE WORLD Christopher Pillitz has seen the world. His reportage and finely wrought image series have been produced in over seventy countries and are published in the globe’s largest… Read more
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1958 | born in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1978 | arrives in London, UK |
1978-1982 | Hotel Management Degree at London’s Claridge’s and Ritz Hotels as a trainee as well as Basel’s Banhof kitchens |
since 1983 | switches career to embrace photography |
attempts to get an assisting job in a photo studio with no success, thus begins a life of travel and working for a broad range of editorial and commercial clients, including magazines such as: The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, GEO, STERN, TIME, The Smithsonian, LIFE, The New York Times, amongst others, as well as commercial (Corporate and Advertising) clients such as Bulmers, Glenlivet, Alessi, Philip Morris, Poaroid, Cafedirect, Syngenta | |
1990 | project entitled “Brazil Incarnate”, a 5 year photographic study of Brazilian sexuality and body culture |
since 1990 | working for Germany’s GEO magazine, crossing South America (2001-2002), the Philippines, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Tibet, and many others |
2001-2005 | helped create the visual identity of the Avina Foundation which is dedicated to supporting and promoting sustainable development and corporate social responsibility across Latin America |
2006-2008 | working on three large format travel and architectural books in which he journeyed across China and India, completing the trio with an intimate look, both architectural and people based, on the inner workings of the Vatican |
lives in Teddington, UK |
2003 | Photographer of the Year, by the Spanish Magazine and Newspaper editors association, Madrid, Spain |
1996 | Art directors club award, Germany for Brazil Incarnate |
1992/1998 | World Press Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2007 | Brazil Incarnate, Festival International de la Photo de Mer, Vannes, France |
2005 | Brazil Incarnate, Tuscany International Photo Festival, Italy |
2000 | Brazil Incarnate, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France, The AOP Gallery London, UK, Warsaw University, Poland, Grazia Nerri Gallery, Milan, Italy |
1998 | Brazil Incarnate, Terre d'Images, Biarritz, France, and Barcelona, Spain |
1993 | Positive Lives, the response to HIV (global touring exhibition) |
1992 | Creating Reality, National Museum of film and Photography, Bradford |
1990 | Eastern Europe in Revolt. National Museum of film and Photography, Bradford, UK |
Zelda Cheattle gallery, London, UK |
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