Chris Floyd (born 1968) is a British photographer based in

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. He is known chiefly for his celebrity portraiture and reportage, beginning with the

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music scene in the 1990s. He also works with fashion and advertising photography and film. In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of

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users.

Life and work

Floyd was born in

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, Hertfordshire. He started taking photographs when he was 14 and in 1988 completed a BTec Photography course. He moved to London in 1990 and pursued a career in photography. As a young photographer, he took photographs of

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, which appeared in the music magazine '' Select''. In 1994, Floyd started working for '' Loaded'' as well as ''

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'' and '' Dazed & Confused'' magazines. His photography in this period is strongly associated with the era of

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was selected for the

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in 2008 and 2013. In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of

users, ''One Hundred and Forty Characters''.

Publications

Publications by Floyd

*''The Verve: Photographs By Chris Floyd.'' London: Reel Art, 2017. Edited by Dave Brolan. .

Publications with contributions by Floyd

*''Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained.'' Oxford: Focal, 2014. By Grant Scott. . With contributions from Floyd, Alicia Bruce, Peter Dench,

Niall McDiarmid Niall McDiarmid (born 1967) is a Scottish photographer.Jim Mortram. *''Great Britons of Photography Vol.1: The Dench Dozen.'' Eastbourne, UK: Hungry Eye, 2016. . Edited by Peter Dench. With photographs by and transcripts of interviews between Dench and Floyd, Jocelyn Bain Hogg,

Marcus Bleasdale Marcus Terence Luke Bleasdale (born 1968) is a British photojournalist. His books include ''One Hundred Years of Darkness'' (2003), ''The Rape of a Nation'' (2009) and ''The Unravelling'' (2015). Bleasdale was appointed Companion of the Order o ...

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, Laura Pannack,

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, Tom Stoddart, Homer Sykes, and Anastasia Taylor-Lind. 160 pages. Edition of 500 copies.

Collections

: 14 prints (as of January 2019)

References

External links

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