ABOUT

"I don’t take a picture, I Capture a Moment"
"The Decisive Moment"
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, Magnum Photos.

"Photography is not like painting," Cartier-Bresson told The Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

To take good quality, composed photographs takes an expert eye and years of experience.

Chris Parker LBIPP has the talent. "He really captured the atmosphere of the day" Rebecca Pedlow (Platform Tees Valley). Starting as a personal assistant to advertising photographer Brian Phipps, in London back in the early 80's and later to Clive Barda, Performing Arts photographer, Chris has full experience in the field for supplying images to Press Relations, Performing Arts, and Commercial companies.

As a freelance Chris has worked for National Newspapers The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The New York Times. PR companies with clients Vivienne Westwood, Levi Jeans, Jasper Conran, John Galliano, Bruce Oldfield. Magazines for publishing companies EMAP, The Financial Times, Haymarket Publishing, Thompson Publishing. With clients in the financial business supplying photography for company reports and brochures.

Now based in the North East of England and fully digital, Chris established YARM STUDIO in 2008, based in the Tees Valley, supplying studio portraiture and wedding photography.

Chris is always capturing images and has a personal folio IMAGERY a collection of work taken through out the Planet.