Chris Floyd (born 1968) is a British photographer based in London.[1][2] He is known chiefly for his celebrity portraiture and reportage, beginning with the Britpop music scene in the 1990s. He also works with fashion[3] and advertising photography and film. In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users.
Floyd was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.[2] He started taking photographs when he was 14 and in 1988 completed a BTec Photography course. He moved to London in 1990 and pursued a career in photography.[2] As a young photographer, he took photographs of The Orb, which appeared in the music magazine Select.[4] In 1994, Floyd started working for Loaded as well as The Face and Dazed & Confused magazines.[5] His photography in this period is strongly associated with the era of Britpop.[5]
His work has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, American and British Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Wallpaper* and Guardian Weekend.[citation needed]
He was selected for the National Portrait Gallery, London's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2008[2][6] and 2013.[citation needed]
In 2011, he exhibited his series of 140 portraits of Twitter users, One Hundred and Forty Characters.[2][7][8][9]
