Christopher Evans
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Artist Statement:
Christopher Evans (°1972, Burnaby, Canada) is an artist who works mainly in the medium of photography. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, Evans tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By applying abstraction, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. As spatial phenomena become transformed through boundaried and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a tribute to the outposts of our world.
Christopher Evans currently works in Vancouver, Canada.
Publications:
Lomo: Don’t Think, Just Shoot - Booth-Clibborn Editions
Creative Vision: Digital & Traditional Methods for Inspiring Innovative Photography - AVA Publishing
Lomo (le) : l'appareil photo qui ose tout - Vm Editions
Fantastic Plastic Cameras: Tips and Tricks for 40 Toy Cameras - Chronicle Books
toy cameras creative photos - ROTOVISION
Light Leaks Issue 5
Light Leaks Issue 6
Light Leaks Issue 7
Photosho Issue 3 “Water"
Nouveaux Mondes numéro zéro
Dazed & Confused 71, July 2001
120seconds
Photoworld Magazine 6th Issue
Exhibitions:
obscura - Viking Union Gallery - Bellingham, USA - Jan 31 - Feb 18 2000
IMAGE 2000 - ArtCentre of Plano - Plano, USA - Nov 18 2000 - Jan 3 2001
About Toy Cameras - Caffe Al Teatro - Prato, Italy - Jul-Aug 2001
City TTL - Caffe Al Teatro - Prato, Italy - Sep-Oct 2002
Under…….. - Caffe Al Teatro - Prato, Italy - Oct 2003
Toy Camera Show - Union Gallery - Vancouver, Canada - Oct 2004
Landscapes of Vancouver - Yaletown Gallery - Vancouver, Canada - Feb 29 - Mar 14 2008
Project Impossible Canada V1.0 - Photohaus Galley - Vancouver, Canada - Oct 25 - Nov 1 2013
Project Impossible V2.0 Photos from the People - Science World - Vancouver, Canada - Apr 16 - May 10 2015
Project Instant v3.0 - Science World - Vancouver, Canada - Mar 30 - Apr 26 2016
Project Instant v4.0 Retro Gratification - Science World - Vancouver, Canada - Apr 4 - May 7 2017
Compartments - Gam Gallery - Vancouver, Canada - Nov 24, 2017
A partial list of the cameras I own:
Action Sampler
Anniversary Kodak No. 2 Hawk-Eye Model C Box Camera
Bandai Plastic Camera (Thanks Chieko)
Bell Emergency Digital Camera Keychain
CanCam (Thanks Sockeyed and goddess_spiral)
Canonet 28 (Thanks CAZASCO)
Coronet Conway Synchronised Model
Cosmic 35
Destiny's Child Camera (Thanks Hessiebell)
Diana Mini (Thanks Hessiebell)
Doraemon Camera
Fotex (Thanks Hessiebell)
Fujifilm Instax 200 (Thanks Hessiebell)
Goldline Big Finder
Harley-Davidson TD Visa Card Panoramic Promotional Camera
Holga 120WPC (Thanks black_siren)
Holga 35MF (Thanks AC3THX)
Horizont (Thanks lomomichel)
Ilford Sprite 35
Jazz Jelly
Kineticolor® Panorama (Thanks CAZASCO)
Kodak Advantix C700 (Thanks Jamie)
Kodak Colorsnap 35 Model 2
Lomo 135BC
Macy's Hi! Ho! Kermit the Frog Camera
Montanus Montana
Ninoka nk-700
Olympia DL 2000 (Thanks Hessiebell)
Olympus Trip 35 (Thanks Hessiebell)
Orange Bugs Camera
Oyama no Monkichi Camera
Photo Master Super 16 Twin 620
Polaroid I-Zone
Polaroid One-Step
Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha SE (Thanks Jim)
P-Sharan STD-35 Pinhole Camera
P-Sharan Wide 35 Pinhole Camera
Rainbow Hawk-eye No. 2 Model C
Royal RL-22S
Shark Indoor/Outdoor Ready-To-Use Camera 35mm Flash Appareil-Photo Intérieure/Extérieure
Singapore Airlines Nickelodeon Spongebob Squarepants Promotional Camera
Smena 35 (pinholed)
Snap, Crackle and Pop Promotional Camera
Snap Sights! NC953 S (Thanks Hessiebell)
Supersampler (Thanks lomomichel)
Tashika AZ-2900R
Time Magazine Promotional Camera
Tony the Tiger Promotional Camera (Thanks Marlas)
Toucan Sam Cam Promotional Camera
Ultronic w. Kinetic Optical Color Lens
United Colors of Benetton Limited Edition Single Use Camera
Vivitar T100 (Thanks efo)
Wild Planet® Off the Map™ Zoom Cam™
Winner Camera with the Super Lens (Thanks Hessiebell)
Young Photographers Camera Set
Zenit E
Zero 2000 (Thanks Hessiebell)
and
Various homemade pinhole cameras
Lenses I use:
Loreo PC Lens in a Cap
Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro
SMC Pentax-DA 1:2.4 70mm Limited
SMC Pentax-DA 1:3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL II
SMC Pentax-FA 1:1.9 43mm Limited
SMC Pentax-F Zoom 1:4-5.6 70-210mm
- JoinedAugust 2004
- OccupationGentleman
- HometownVancouver
- Current cityVancouver
- CountryCanada
- Websitehttp://christopherevans.ca
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Testimonials
this guy is a hell of a photographer. full stop.
for those who still think they need the best of the line camera to make good shots - take a look here. the true artist can make any tool sing.
It's about time I acknowledge the influence Christopher has had upon my photography since he joined Vandigicam. Not only has he been a huge inspiration for me to experiment with toy and trash cameras, but he's also taught me a fresh way of looking at the world with a camera. Christopher can probably take a picture o… Read more
It's about time I acknowledge the influence Christopher has had upon my photography since he joined Vandigicam. Not only has he been a huge inspiration for me to experiment with toy and trash cameras, but he's also taught me a fresh way of looking at the world with a camera. Christopher can probably take a picture of almost anything with the trashiest of lowtech cameras and make it look beautiful and interesting. He's a very talented artist, and his trash cam work is a testament to the saying that good photography is about the photographer, not the camera.
Read lessThe fact that Christopher Evans can produce the most beautiful photographs using the simplest cameras goes to show that it is the photographer not the camera. His art is wonderful because it is so true, what you see is what you get, and so very often it is greatness.
Christopher Evans' photographs are timeless, unflinching, and vigorously honest. In particular, Christopher's urban photography and expert use of toy cameras imbues me with a deep sense of nostalgia. Christopher Evans' Flickr photostream is a beautiful showcase of his work.
This is a man who is working hard to show you some righteously composed pictures, and what could be wrong with that.