CHR!S SM!TH >> photo guy

I won BEST MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHER at The Coast's
Best of Music awards show this year!
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The fine folks at IndieCan (from Ontario) and I sat down for a chat during the Halifax Pop Explosion and did a fun interview. It's online now if you wanna give it a listen.
www.indiecan.com
The interview with me is near the end.
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Halifax Pop Explosion Photos!!!!
Here's an article on me and my recent exhibition at the Halifax Pop Explosion:
Daily News
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Brand Spankin' New
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Skateboard Auction
The Halifax Skateboard Coalition hosted a
skateboard art auction on Fri. June 22
at Argyle Fine Art Gallery (1869 Upper Water St.)
and I was one of the featured artists. All of the
funds raised went to running the new Halifax Skatepark!!
Here's a look at the deck I did.
It's quite a departure from the photos of
hairy sweaty band dudes I'm generally known for!
Thanks to:
• Miss C of Pink Velvet Burlesque for posing
• Brian Larter of Aperture Studios for donating studio time
• Jamie Morrison of Maritime Digital Colour for donating the
printing service and mounting it to the board
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Press
Infomonkey did an article on little o'le me. Read it here
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International Ad Campaign:
Ok, it's time to let you guys in on a little secret. As I've mentioned already, I went to Dallas in ..o do a shoot with a band named Greyskull. The part that I couldn't tell you is that the shoot was for an international ad campaign by Nokia. So, right now, my pics are making their way across Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries south of the equator.
Here's their new CD I designed and shot the pics for.
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When The Angels Make Contact
I shot stills for Matt's new video
"When The Angels Make Contact".
If you get a copy of the CD you'll see
plenty of my photos in the artwork.
Here's the site
... and here's the video.
I actually make a short cameo in it.
I'm the dude in the back of the big ass
truck that Sam Roberts is driving.
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Mistress Molotov
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Live Favourites
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You've all seen those photos where the band lines up in front of a brick wall. Then the singer looks thoughtfully in the distance as though he is pondering whether or not he left the iron on. Yeah, I didn't shoot those!
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Some of the fine folks crazy enough to work with me are:
The Novaks - CD design, CD & press photos
Matt Mays and El Torpedo - CD & press photos
Joel Plaskett - Live & press photos & New Years poster design
Wintersleep - Press photos
Dunane Andrews - CD & press photos
Patrick Boyle - CD & web design, CD & press photos
Two Hours Traffic - Press photos
Mardeen - Press photos
Bucket Truck - CD photos
Pogey - CD & live photos
Jill Porter - Press photos
Jolene & Sharlene Keats - Press photos
Junofest 2006 - Ads, banners, t-shirts, posters, postcards, etc.
EXCLAIM - Pop Explosion photos
The Coast - Pearl Jam, Slayer photos & more
Music Nova Scotia - Photos for website, brochures, posters, etc
MusicNL - Website design
Musicstop - Tradeshow photos
Oxfam - Concert for Asia photos
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CD Art - I did all the photos and design for these
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To date I have had photos published in:
- American Photo
- Billboard
- Exclaim
- Chart
- Gasoline Magazine
- The Coast
- Halifax Magazine
- HFX
- The Independent
- The Newfoundland Herald
- The Evening Telegram
- Current
- The Gazzette
- and many more I'll never see