Chris McCaw

Chris McCaw first encountered a darkroom when he was 13 years old, and he has been making photos ever since. What he does is straight photography - a lens, the light, a camera, and something to receive the light. That’s it. Elemental. Elemental is also the perfect description of the primary subject of his work - the movement of the sun across the landscape, often in the most remote places on Earth. Chris has taken his homemade, monumental cameras to the Mojave Desert, the equator, and the Arctic Circle to photograph the cycle of night and day in its variations. The images that result have a reverence to them, a deep sense of respect and awe that these timeless processes and places exist and go on every day without regard for us.