I am a marketing researcher and photographer. These disciplines complement each other well in that both call for curiosity, patience, the ability to observe and listen and a need for concise interpretative skills. Just as my analytical approach to research has become more holistic over the years, so has my photography evolved from being purely pictorial to being more conceptual. (But there are times I still love wallowing in rich, mindless colors.)

The diversity of my photographic subjects is a reflection of the times in which I grew up. I was educated to be a Renaissance man, a happy generalist with a comfortable knowledge of a wide variety of subjects, languages and concepts. From my family I gained an appreciation of social justice and music. From my wife and daughter I learned about love and happiness. My professional life as a researcher working in the world of advertising exposes me to a wide variety of people, perspectives and circumstances, and requires intellectual honesty, respect for diversity and clarity. From my work and friendship with writers, artists, musicians and scientists, I have learned a lot about the nurturing of creativity and ideas. But I also understand the importance of deadlines.

I began taking photographs seriously in the late 1960s, working exclusively in black-and-white. I chronicled the world around me, which over time expanded through travel, work and other life experiences. I embraced digital capture techniques when they became commercially available, but continued to shoot film regularly until 2002. With the exception of when I use a Mamiya medium format camera, my work today is captured using Nikon digital SLR cameras.

My work has appeared in a variety of places, including consumer magazines, books, private collections, web sites and consumer advertising.

I tell stories based on my photographs here: www.chrisbonney.blogspot.com