Biography
Chris Floyd was born in Hertfordshire in 1968 and grew up in a succession
of Home Counties. He became interested in photography in his mid-teens.
Moved to London on the day of the poll tax riots in 1990 and began to
pursue a career as a photographer. In 2000 he moved to New York and
stayed there for 6 years. In that time he worked in 38 states, met his
wife who gave birth to their first child in 2004 and learned to hate
having to write his biography in the third person. His work has been
published in The New Yorker, GQ, Guardian Weekend, The Face, and The
New York Times Magazine.
Statement
"I wasn't born in Surrey but I was made in Surrey. In the same
way that Elvis was made in Memphis. It's the place that stamped itself
on me whether I wished it to or not. I love it and I loathe it. But
being a born nostalgic, where the past is always better than any future
on offer, I mostly love it now. I love it's civility, it's decency,
it's emotional constipation. Nobody in Surrey would dream of burdening
you with a need for a solution to a personal problem. It's a county
of Hugh Grants. When people ask me where I'm from I say "Surrey. God's
County." I leave it to the questioner to decide how that answer is intended
or received. Surrey is where I discovered photography, where I bought
my first record, where I lost my virginity, where I first got drunk
and where London and the future was never more than 20 miles and never
less than 20 light years away. It was my home for 9 of my 41 years,
less than a quarter of my life and diminishing by the day, but when
I think of it I think of Tania Wild in a navy blue v-neck tank top and
a half return to Guildford for 55p."