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Chris Burkard (born March 12, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California) is an American self-taught photographer and artist, based in California Central Coast region. Burkard’s work is layered by landscape, lifestyle, surf, outdoor and travel subjects. Burkard takes a photojournalistic approach to conceptualize large-scale editorial projects that extend across multiple mediums, formulated for digital and print content platforms. The use of natural lighting techniques is prevalent throughout Burkard’s work as well as capturing humanizing moments in both cultural and natural landscapes. Contrasting the idea of surfing as a sun-drenched, bleach-blonde experience, Burkard gravitates toward and leads assignments using photojournalism documentation to colder oceanic regions of the North Atlantic and elsewhere in order to demonstrate the ability of the surfer to survive in extreme conditions. Burkard has led trips to some of the coldest regions of the globe. Burkard’s travels seek out adventure and perfect waves in some of the coldest harshest conditions known to man, including over 7 trips in Iceland, Norway and other parts of Europe. == Education == After completing high school in 2004 at the age of 19, Burkard enrolled in classes at Cuesta Junior College. He became exposed to photography as an art form and the idea of composition quickly captured his attention. Growing up near the ocean and participating in water sports: body surfing, bodyboarding and surfing, Burkard sought to use photography as a mode of expression in order to highlight the movement of water and document his friends. Burkard purchased his first camera from a Goodwill auction for $65, and after shooting and developing an entire role of slide film he realized the camera didn’t work. He then borrowed a camera from his girlfriend’s mom, and began shooting regularly, experimenting with different lighting and contexts. Raised on the cusp of photography’s mainstream transformation from film to digital in the mid-2000s, Burkard is self-taught in both. In 2006, Burkard shadowed large format landscape photographer Michael Fatali, whose images of the American Southwest desert are published frequently. Later that year, Burkard interned under current ''Transworld Surfing'' photo editor, Pete Taras. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Burkard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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