Chris Floyd (photographer)

Chris Floyd (born 1968) is a British photographer based in London.[1][2] He is known chiefly for his celebrity portraiture and reportage, beginning with the Britpop music scene in the 1990s. He also works with fashion[3] and advertising photography and film. In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users.

Life and work
A portrait by Floyd of the band Bim in 2010.

Floyd was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.[2] 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.[2] As a young photographer, he took photographs of The Orb, which appeared in the music magazine Select.[4] In 1994, Floyd started working for Loaded as well as The Face and Dazed & Confused magazines.[5] His photography in this period is strongly associated with the era of Britpop.[5]

His work has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, American and British Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Wallpaper* and Guardian Weekend.

He was selected for the National Portrait Gallery, London's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2008[2][6] and 2013.

In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users, One Hundred and Forty Characters.[2][7][8][9]

Publications

Publications by Floyd
  • The Verve: Photographs By Chris Floyd. London: Reel Art, 2017. Edited by Dave Brolan. ISBN 978-1-909526-53-2.

Publications with contributions by Floyd

Collections

References
  1. Sawa, Interview by Dale Berning (31 January 2018). "Chris Floyd's best photograph: the Verve meet Dorothy, the Tin Man and Scarecrow". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-21 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. "Chris Floyd Q&A". The Daily Telegraph. 12 June 2012. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  3. Desmond, Sally (30 January 2016). "'Sheer nepotism': Brooklyn Beckham Burberry shoot angers photographers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-21 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. "Chris Floyd". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  5. Abraham, Amelia (18 December 2014). "Shit Pubs, 'Loaded' and the Gallagher Brothers: Chris Floyd Shot the Height of Britpop". Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  6. "National Portrait Gallery - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  7. "Portraits of my favourite tweeters – in pictures". The Guardian. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  8. Magazine, Wallpaper* (3 October 2011). "Wallpaper* Tweet Life project by Chris Floyd". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  9. Coomes, Phil (2 November 2011). "One Hundred & Forty Characters". Retrieved 2019-01-21 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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