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Chris Bickford is a freelance photographer and writer currently based in North Carolina. His photography work is represented by National Geographic Creative. He is the creative director of Doppelgänger Pictures and a contributing photographer for National Geographic Traveler, Milepost Magazine, and the New York Times.

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Legends of the Sandbar

A Tribute to the Surfing Community of the Outer Banks

Postcards from Paradise

Based on a National Geographic Traveler Assignment

Street Symphony

Death, Rebirth, and Ritual
in New Orleans

Ayiti: Life Amid the Rubble

Based on assignment work in post-earthquake Haiti.

Scenes from a Venetian Carnival

The World’s oldest Bacchanal

Project Anima

An imaginative exploration of female archetypes

The Capitalism of Disaster

Collected from a series of New York Times assignments.

So You Wanna Be a Rock’n’Roll Star

Portraits of Contemporary Musicians

On Cayman Time

Based on a National Geographic Traveler Assignment

The Stones of Connemara

A Journey into the Wild Heart of Western Ireland

Let’s Do This!

I’ve Shot over 200 weddings. Let me shoot yours.

A Sojourn in Paris

A Tale of Love, Loss, and a Passion for Twilight

Travelogue

Lost in VeniceFebruary 18, 2017 - 8:09 am
Ah, Venice…that ancient warren of crumbling churches, oily canals, a thousand and one mask shops, and lord knows how many bridges. A city with no directional logic whatsoever. Deja Vu takes you round in circles again and again, farther and farther from your destination. You think you are going north, when in fact you are […]
Custom Carnival Portraits in Venice, ItalyNovember 30, 2016 - 12:56 am
This coming February, during Carnival season, I will be offering custom portraits in Venice, Italy. I have arranged to work with Atelier Tiepolo, the organizers of Venice Carnival in Costume® 2017, to set up private portrait packages for couples and groups, for studio-quality mementos of your masquerade adventure. Through both directed and non-directed/photojournalistic shooting, I […]
Getting the Shot #1: Thibault LaunchingFebruary 15, 2016 - 11:12 pm
In response to the feedback I got from a couple of recent Instagram posts, I’ve decided to start a little series called “Getting the Shot”. Seems everybody — myself included — loves to hear a “how I got this shot” story, especially if it involves breaking and entering, hanging from a tree, drawing blood — […]
Snow Day…February 12, 2016 - 5:31 pm
It’s snowing on the Outer Banks. Schools have let out early, kids are out making snowmen, toboggans and snowboards are coming out to ride the dunes. And everybody’s whipping out their cameras. Social media is blowing up with snow shots. There’s something about snow on the beach that makes for really striking and evocative photographs. […]
Don’t Stop de CarnivalFebruary 5, 2016 - 8:26 pm
This year, I’m spending Carnival at home. Other priorities will keep me from the mayhem on the streets of Rio, New Orleans, Venice, Lafayette, Port-of-Spain, or wherever else I might have been planning to go; so instead I’ll be posting some shots from the ghosts of Carnivals past as I tend to random bits of […]