Christopher John Ball BA(Hons)MA is a widely exhibited and published, award winning, London based, fine arts photographer, playwright and lecturer. With almost 30 years experience as a photographer - his work is in public and private collections worldwide and he is the co-founder of the ''Association of Erotic Artists'' which can be found at http://www.associationoferoticartists.co.uk *Please Note:This site contains artworks of an erotic nature.
Visit his website at http://www.classicnudes.co.uk
*Please note this site features Fine Art Nudes
or for a wider range of his fine art imagery please visit http://www.cjballphotography.co.uk
He contributes articles on photography for various publications and acts as an external moderator for several photographic courses in London. His images have been showcased in Italian, German, Spanish, Hong Kong SAR, British and mainland Chinese publications and also displayed within the pages of several respected online galleries. He has also been interviewed, and filmed at work, for Television programmes that have been transmitted in Europe, the USA and Great Britain.
Christopher has been selected as a juror for the 2008/09 'Erotic Signature' annual international arts competition.
He currently has work on show at the 'Erotic Heritage Museum' in Las Vegas, USA.
"...sensual nudes that pay homage to the female form in a manner that is both graceful and elegant. Very rarely do we come across a portfolio that strikes us so deeply..." - The New Nude Magazine
"His work is of the highest quality." - Jade: The International Erotic Art & Literature Magazine
"The effort of creating just this quality of light and shadow is a tribute to the torturously exquisite attention Ball bequeaths his models. What we are allowed and enabled to envision is Ball’s true art, the ultimate seduction, the torture." - Stevie Burns Voracitybeat
In addition to his teaching and photographic work; Chris also works in film and theatre. ''Throwing Stones'' was co-written by Christopher John Ball and Dean Sipling. It was first performed at The South London Theatre in July 2005. There followed a successful month long run at The Greenwich Playhouse in September 2005. It is set to be staged again in 2009 and published later this year.
“Throwing Stones has just opened at the Greenwich Playhouse and it enters the dark and perverse world of child pornography in a studied and highly creative way. Indeed, it comes close to being a totally absorbing evaluation of what some might believe is true art while others might cringe in horror at the sight of what they see is an indecent image ... Anton Krause’s direction is impeccable; Helen Chadney, Christopher Vian-Smith, Shaun Stone and Geraldine Garner generate performances which are outstanding while Laura Murphy exudes sex from every pore.†- Roy Atterbury – Bexley Times
“Mid-life male photographer meets young, nubile female student-cum-artistic muse - so far its old hat. But photographer turned playwright Christopher John Ball and co-writer Dean Sipling, whose background is film and television, bring the pairing into a thoroughly contemporary world of intercepted emails, sinister insinuation and sharp retorts. Their ‘guilty until proved innocent’ plot ... is thoroughly watchable and believable - perhaps as a result of Ball’s professional insights and DS Dom Lucas’ services as police advisor to the production.†- Barbara Lewis – The Stage
"This is fringe theatre at its best, experimental, vaguely existential" - Clifford Thurlow - The New Nude Magazine.
"The writers... bravely tackle this controversial subject to produce a challenging and thought-provoking modern drama." - Bromley Times
Chris also acts as a fine art/photography advisor and exhibition curator and has experience in facilitating and advising on art based/lifestyle TV programming - in particular fine art photography and erotic arts.
