Christopher Morris (photographer)

Christopher Morris (born California 1958) is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs.

Life and work

Most of Morris' work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he photographed were the US invasion of Iraq, the drug war in Colombia, the Persian Gulf war, the wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Chechnya − more than 18 foreign conflicts. He documented the presidency of George W. Bush for Time, and is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency.

In recent years, Morris has worked on his monograph, My America which was published in 2006. My America was produced while on assignment for TIME magazine covering U.S. President George W. Bush. Morris describes My America as his personal journey into a Republican America. Through portraits and landscapes, Morris hopes that the viewer "sees what he saw and feels what he felt - a nation that has wrapped its eyes so tightly in red, white, and blue that it has gone blind."

On February 29, 2016, Morris was involved in an altercation with a Secret Service agent while photographing a Black Lives Matter protest at a campaign rally at Radford University in Virginia. Morris cursed at the Secret Service agent moments prior to the physical confrontation. The agent grabbing the photographer's neck with both hands and threw him into a table and onto the ground. Morris kicked at the agent while lying on the ground.[1] Morris grabbed at the agent's neck which Morris stated was to demonstrate the choke hold he had just experienced. The Secret Service launched an investigation into the incident, a spokesman said, and would "provide further details as warranted once additional facts surrounding the situation are known."[2]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "TIME Responds to Confrontation With Secret Service at Trump Event". TIME. Archived from the original on 29 Feb 2016. Retrieved 29 Feb 2016.
  2. ↑ Acosta, Jim; Holmes, Kristen; Manchester, Julia; Diamond, Jeremy. "Photographer: Secret Service agent choked me at a Trump rally". CNN.com. Retrieved 29 Feb 2016.

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