Chris Cook

Chris Cook is a fine art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York known for documenting the urban landscape in cities across the United States and abroad. Referring to himself as a “native tourist” of New York, Cook’s practice captures life in the city around him. Much of his practice is centered in developing a vast chronicle of the sociopolitical issues his generation faces, by creating photographs that preserve histories, record experiences and capture the human condition. His creative process incorporates experimentation in traditional and new digital printmaking techniques – reflecting historical cycles of repetition and an ever-increasing technological impact on vision and perception. Cook extensively documented scenes from the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, capturing struggle, resilience, and hope on film and digital formats. All 160 of his Black Lives Matter photographs have been acquired by the Valentine Museum of Art.

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