Chris Howell is a life-long artist and photographer living in Dallas, Texas. His photographic career began in 1988, and has led to work with Agence France Presse, Reuters, for Major League Baseball and the NFL, Feizy Import-Export producing their catalog and magazine ads as staff photographer, and varied freelance event, portrait, photojournalism and landscape commissions, as well as two decades of silver-based fine art image production. He has also captured images for USA Boxing at their national tournaments and Olympic Trials, and worked with musicians such as Marc Ribot, Wynton Marsalis and Eric Mingus. His photos have been published in Architectural Digest, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, HFN and The Met.
Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chris attended the University of New Mexico and Southern Methodist University. He has worked in drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, assembly, storytelling, casting, mosaic, hand-built cameras and most recently, documentary filmmaking. Chris produced and directed his first documentary, Old Man in 2004. Old Man was awarded the Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund Grant in 2005 and played to a capacity house at SXSW in 2006. His second film, Sweet Science, a Cinéma Vérité which chronicles eight years of the lives of four top-ranked boxers and their coach as they quest to qualify for the US Olympic Boxing Team, was an Official Selection at the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, where it sold out two screenings, and the American Black Film Festival in Miami, where it again sold out and was met with stellar reviews. He is currently producing the Direct Cinema short, Bridge, regarding homeless artists and their creation of a mosaic mural on the site of their outreach campus.
He uses a wide variety of gear to produce and manipulate images including: Canon 5D Mark I & II, JVC Broadcast, Nikon, Mamiya, Zeiss-Ikon and Crown Graphic cameras, Apple Macintosh, Avid, Vegas, Lightroom and Photoshop digital ware, Sennheiser and Audio Technica microphones, Nikon, Zeiss, Olympus, and Canon glass, Bogen and Vinten tripods, Novatron and Canon strobes, and an assortment of custom hand-crafted devices.
Chris has experience in, and is available for hire as a location or studio portraitist, an event photographer, a product photographer – studio or location, magazine or catalog – and editorial documentation at home or abroad.
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Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chris attended the University of New Mexico and Southern Methodist University. He has worked in drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, assembly, storytelling, casting, mosaic, hand-built cameras and most recently, documentary filmmaking. Chris produced and directed his first documentary, Old Man in 2004. Old Man was awarded the Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund Grant in 2005 and played to a capacity house at SXSW in 2006. His second film, Sweet Science, a Cinéma Vérité which chronicles eight years of the lives of four top-ranked boxers and their coach as they quest to qualify for the US Olympic Boxing Team, was an Official Selection at the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, where it sold out two screenings, and the American Black Film Festival in Miami, where it again sold out and was met with stellar reviews. He is currently producing the Direct Cinema short, Bridge, regarding homeless artists and their creation of a mosaic mural on the site of their outreach campus.
He uses a wide variety of gear to produce and manipulate images including: Canon 5D Mark I & II, JVC Broadcast, Nikon, Mamiya, Zeiss-Ikon and Crown Graphic cameras, Apple Macintosh, Avid, Vegas, Lightroom and Photoshop digital ware, Sennheiser and Audio Technica microphones, Nikon, Zeiss, Olympus, and Canon glass, Bogen and Vinten tripods, Novatron and Canon strobes, and an assortment of custom hand-crafted devices.
Chris has experience in, and is available for hire as a location or studio portraitist, an event photographer, a product photographer – studio or location, magazine or catalog – and editorial documentation at home or abroad.
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