Lives and works in Pacifica, California
Chris McCaw has been getting his hands wet in the darkroom from the age of 13, and since then he has been unable separate his personal life from his photographic life. In a constant state of production of photographic work from that early age, he continues to be excited about the medium. The early years involved self taught explorations in skateboarding/ zine /punk scenes with a fisheye lens and Tri-X through the mid-late 80’s. After high school he learned everything he could about photography. Finally he fell in love with the simplicity of large format cameras, and in 1992 got his first 4”x5”. The following year he fell in love with the platinum/palladium printing process and even larger cameras. After working the boundaries of analogue photographic mediums with his Sunburn project , Chris continues to rethink traditional use of photographic materials such as his work with instant pack films. Still building his own cameras, he is currently manipulating the mechanics of how cameras record time.