About Chris Case Photography

I am available for assignments throughout the United States. To see more of my work and follow my current projects, visit my field blog.

chris@chriscasephoto.com
512.809.7589 (m)
Based in Golden, Colorado

VISION
I specialize in environmental, conservation, and landscape photography. Based in Colorado, I most often concentrate on themes central to the West--like water, wildlife, and wilderness.

I am driven by the philosophy that the most powerful and compelling journalism is--like the most fascinating art--operating on synchronous and synergistic channels: our aesthetic, intellect, and emotion. Observant and patient, my work reflects a passion for quiet beauty, graphic form, and intelligent simplicity.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Connecticut, I grew up exploring the coastal reserves and dense hardwood forests of southeastern New England. With my family, I climbed Mount Washington and roamed the Green and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire. My formative years would seem to have lead me directly to a life of environmental concern with a passion for conservation issues. But there would be an interesting detour.

From the day I enrolled at Colgate University in the fall of 1995, I felt destined for a career in neuroscience. I had always been an observant, introverted child, and this led to my fascination with the brain, cognition, intelligence, and, ultimately, neuropsychology. Indeed, I had only applied to schools with a neuroscience program, and began work in a neurophysiology lab a month after freshman orientation. I performed brain surgery on rats and mice. The blinders were on.

And they remained on until I elected to take a basic studio art class in my junior year of college--it happened to be the prerequisite to the photography class I hoped to take the following semester. Little did I know that the professor of that photography class would plant a seed that would ultimately lead me to run from neuroscience altogether. But it would be a number of years still.

After graduating, I worked for three years at the National Institute of Mental Health conducting research on patients with schizophrenia, in one of the world's largest multidisciplinary studies of the devastating disease.

After another year of research (in which I worked with the brains of monkeys in a model of Parkinson’s disease), I could take it no longer.

I enrolled in the graduate journalism program at the University of Texas at Austin. I would concentrate in documentary photography.

After receiving my degree, I worked as a freelance daily-assignment photographer in the Denver metro area. I then served as the first creative director for the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum from 2006 to 2008.

Currently, I am also the editor and director of photography and design of Trail & Timberline, the magazine published by the Colorado Mountain Club since 1918. As a photographer and writer, I have worked for newspapers, national magazines, and national conservation organizations.