About/Bio
Chris Becher, *1990 Cologne, is a multidisciplinary photographer, writer, mentor and co-founder of the Undisciplining Photography Symposium, living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Cologne, Germany.
His socially conscious and consent-based practice ponders on the potential to convey the ways how identity and self-image are shaped by the relationship of individual lived experience and larger social histories through photographic portraiture, incorporating video, text, archival material, and essayistic writing.
Preceded by a long-term and dialogic process with his protagonists, his practice strives to reintroduce complexity, beauty and intimacy into the representation of individuals and communities, often compartmentalised by media and dominant discourses, and seldomly depicted from a sensitive and poetic angle.
Amsterdam
, the Netherlands, and Cologne, Germany.