Biography

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Chris Ledger was born in London in 1953 and came to professional Photography by way of a Fine Art degree in Painting, graduating in Leicester in 1975. The concentration on photography didn't really begin until 2006 however when he became a convert to digital imaging seeing it as a bridge between the spontaneity of photography and a slower, more considered approach previously only available to painters.

With this in mind he specialized in minutely detailed, metre+ panoramic landscape and cityscape images which, from the word go, pushed current technology hard as large 40-shot "stitched" images evolved into still larger, minutely detailed 100+ shot ones. These, he increasingly found, allowed compositional decision-making throughout a protracted period of post production; repeatedly re-working the image - often over several months - until (and if...) he felt it to be complete. (This is explained more fully in the above menu choice: "ABOUT the Panoramas").

In tandem with this he continued with his fascination with "SingleShot" images (ie NON stitched ones); particularly monotone seascapes (as can be seen in the "Single Shot Seascapes" collection).

Awards
Recognition came quickly from the UK's Professional Photographer Magazine when they named him their Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year (Jan 2008). He also frequently had multiple images featured in Take-a-View's Landscape Photographer of the Year awards and his limited edition images quickly become widely collected, both privately and corporately

Exhibitions
From 2006 to 2015 Chris exhibited regularly in both London (from the Barbican to the National Theatre and Art Fairs) and his then home county of Sussex. (Fuller details can be found on the above Exhibitions page). More recently though he has elected not to show his work publicly - but is currently (2020) considering doing so again.