Chris Anthony’s world is a wonderful collection of object symbols, set design, and character development. His photographs are an intersection of Renaissance set and costume design, melted with a process that employs both antique photographic equipment and technology through post-production. His work is lush and painterly guided by deep hues of color, muted and apart in time. He creates an image that is akin to filmwork in its narrative, both cinematic and containing all the elements of a story left open-ended. His characters linger in a loosely draped studio space, a century gone by, waiting, wandering, lost in thought, casting challenge to unravel the mystery of the objects that accompany.

In addition to doing work on everything from My Chemical Romance to the PlayStation 3 ad campaign, Chris Anthony takes phenomenally Victorian-style photographs in which pale, trembling consumptives are barely separable from their ethereal, ghostly counterparts, existing in gray salons filled with scultpures and knick-knacks that seem to have found their way there from being worshipped deep in the savage jungle as the totems of cruel gods. Chris has developed a style of image making which has consistently taken the notion of a photographic document as a mere starting point for an ever deepening exploration into the human subconscious. He has transformed a technical vocabulary and drafted a dark poem infused with all of the struggles and turmoil of our modern lives.

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lived there and in the United States until moving to Florence, Italy for art history studies. I returned to Stockholm for film studies and after a few years of apprenticeship I began directing various projects until returning to my first love, still photography.