Chris Cook

Artist Statement

For the past six years, I have called myself a “native tourist”. I’m a Brooklyn native who has the confidence of a local and an eye of a tourist. I create photographs to reveal adventures discovered through daily explorations of the inner workings of the city. Referencing a lineage of street photographers, I capture images in my daily routine, later discovering the narratives represented when I process the photographs either digitally or in the darkroom. My eyes are always anticipating a ‘decisive moment’ in each photograph as I capture images of people and how they uniquely inhabit the urban environment they share. These pictures are portraits of people I both know and do not know, action shots of my subjects in motion; sometimes performing for the camera and still lives/cityscapes.