Christine Stoddard
Multimedia Storyteller & Filmmaker
Photography
I got my start editingWashington Post photo slideshows in my teens. By then, I'd already had dozens of photo bylines and artist features. Today I am a Puffin Foundation national artist grantee whose photography has appeared in outlets around the world. I'm the author of the critically-acclaimed books Heaven Is a Photograph and Hello, New York: The Living and Dead, and regularly contributed cover photos for The Brooklyn Downtown Star. My photography has been selected for public art projects on-site in New York City, Slovenia, and beyond. I graduated from Columbia Journalism School and hold an MFA from The City College of New York-CUNY.
Photographer's statement: For me, photography is camera play. My photography lives at the intersection of fine art, cinema, and journalism, always with a game in mind. I gravitate toward quiet moments, color pops, and strong texture. And I always ask, "What's the decisive moment?" as a way of answering another question: "What's the next move in this game?" It doesn't have to be a logical move to anyone but myself. I make the rules. In long-term and ongoing projects, I'm interested in ideas about home, identities, and escapism as refuge. I consider surviving the Digital Age and the Anthropocene the same journey.























