Christopher Houghton is an award-winning filmmaker and nationally acclaimed Adelaide Hills photographic artist. His work captures a view of the Australian landscape we rarely see. With multiple solo and groups exhibition under his belt, Christopher's photographs are represented in private and corporate collection across Australia and the UK.
"As a child, my parents traded their modest house for a caravan, and for years we travelled through the Australian interior. At every opportunity, I left our blue and white tin box to explore the bush. As I learnt the craft of photography, I was less drawn to what I could see and more to what I felt. For me, photography has never been about 'shooting' pictures. It's about expressing the presence of relationship within nature. Becoming intimate with these places over long periods of time is to be a part of a very subtle evolution. I find that I now embrace familial bends in the riverbed, ancient rock and trees like old friends."
Found in remote regions across Australia, Christopher's photographs are meditations on place; a collaboration of rock, wood, earth, air and time. Schooled in traditional practice with a camera hand-crafted by a student of Ansel Adams, Christopher engages a self-devised practice of slow photography. Using analogue film and an old wooden camera, each negative is processed by hand and printed with the best archival inks available on cotton rag or sustainably produced hemp. All photographs come in limited editions and are available in a wide range of sizes.