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Chris Tait first picked up a camera of his own to chronicle three months of exploring Canada coast-to-coast, sleeping on park benches and bus seats, and living on dollars a day.
Since then he's found a passion for wedding, portrait, fashion and editorial photography. Most of his kit has been carefully selected to be easily carried to wherever his clients want him to be in case you were wondering, which you weren't.
Chris now works peddling the tools of his trade at The Camera Store, where, apart from sometimes feeling a bit like a diabetic kid in a candy shop, he rejoices in wonderful glass and mechanical things on a daily basis.
Recently, Chris made the splendid mistake of investing in a Hasselblad 500C/M for personal projects and has since been dwelling in its Swedish boxiness (See also: Volvo, Ikea, latter-day Anita Ekberg), petting its shiny head, feeding it plenty of Delta and Provia, and letting it sleep at the foot of the bed.
Chris, along with friend and super-multi-talented Calgary artist Sarah Radomsky, put on his first gallery show in March 2009, entitled BARE. They hope to follow up with another sometime in 2011 or early 2012.
Chris has (most of) a BA in English Literature, enjoys slightly impossible things and is strangely comfortable referring to himself in the third person.
Photos of christait (22)
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Contacts (154)
Groups (33)
- Shots in the Dark 2,568 photos, 352 members
- The Street Photograph (Black and White Street Photography) 16,698 photos, 823 members
- Street Photography 125,363 photos, 17,605 members
- Permablitz Permaparty, Hillhurst edition 20 photos, 4 members
- Lee Friedlander Evolution 1,163 photos, 56 members
- OpenFile Calgary 143 photos, 45 members
- Art of Geek 27 photos, 7 members
- The Impossible Project: The Re-Invention of Instant Film 2,571 photos, 153 members
- Impossible Project / Polaroid supporters!!!!!!!! 5,921 photos, 349 members
- The Impossible Project Film Manipulation 420 photos, 386 members
- Motion Notion 6 photos, 6 members
- Winter In Canada 2,544 photos, 199 members
- Sled Island Photo Crew redux 29 photos, 10 members
- The Gauntlet 172 photos, 13 members
- My Favourite Person 45 photos, 35 members
- anti-portrait 2,301 photos, 261 members
- Abstract Self Portrait 3,321 photos, 588 members
- Self-Portraits : Strobist Style 315 photos, 59 members
- Dαяk Portraits 1,508 photos, 212 members
- FashionPhotographyBlog.com 78,688 photos, 15,301 members
- "Women Portraits" 62,693 photos, 3,239 members
- Portrait of a Lady 9,665 photos, 902 members
- Celebrating women 31,873 photos, 1,780 members
- woman portrait 13,670 photos, 1,151 members
- City Landmarks 3,855 photos, 155 members
- Concert Photography Score Me! (Comment 5, Post 1) 7,062 photos, 2,905 members
- Strobist.com 526,399 photos, 103,900 members
- A Lifetime of Self-Portraits 14,808 photos, 1,534 members
- Calgary Strobist 2,030 photos, 332 members
- Calgary 66,578 photos, 1,876 members
- University of Calgary 1,839 photos, 103 members
- Snowboard and Ski Culture 7,775 photos, 974 members
- For the love of bubblegum 282 photos, 269 members
Testimonials (1)
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Chris Beauchamp says:
"Chris has been a photography mentor for myself and nearly everyone else I know who shoots at all seriously. Looking at his photos, it's not hard to see why. He has an inherent gift for lighting and composition, and his results still inspire me to shoot better.
I've worked with Chris in an editor relationship, and he was always willing to try to get my vague concepts. More than anything though, Chris always walks away with the shot, and it's usually better than the original concept ever was."24th September, 2008
- Name:
- Chris Tait
- Joined:
- December 2007
- Currently:
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- I am:
- Male
- Occupation:
- Freelance Photographer, Camera Salesman
- Website:
- christait{dot}ca






















