Christopher Smith
“My life, like everyone’s life, has been a series of choices, some good, some not so good. These photographs are a broad selection of images that mark my progress as a human, and a photographer, since moving to Singapore in 2010. I left the United States angry and broken with a one way ticket in hand. I was determined to rebuild, and to find happiness and beauty again.
I have now reached my 58th year on this planet. Along the way I have shaped a career that, at many times, has found me right in the middle of the action, as I work as a creative director, a business leader, a film producer. I have always considered myself to be what one might casually call a participant.
But in looking at my photographs, which I started taking in 2010, when I moved to Asia at age 46, I realize that while I have been at the center of so many things, my motivations have actually been that of an active observer. I look for moments, and sound bites, and bits of off hand wisdom that might guide both my work, but also the work of those around me. When I moved to Singapore, I transitioned from a doer to a guider, if that makes sense. And with that there came a change in my way of working, and observing the people and things around me.
Christopher Smith is an American designer, photographer, film producer. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife Geraldine.