Chris Wright is a visual anthropologist holding the position of lecturer at

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

, and professor at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

. Wright originally trained as an artist before becoming Photographic Archivist at the

Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

in 1992. He has published on a number of topics including the relationship between art and anthropology and photography in the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

.Wright, Chris (2014) The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands, Duke University Press

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Chris British anthropologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London