Chris Marsh Background and Experience

About Me

I have been incredibly lucky to have made a full time career out of taking
photographs, something I enjoy enormously and have been doing for almost as
long as I can remember. Below is an outline of my background and you can see
in the gallery just some of the fascinating jobs that have come my way over the
years. I have also tucked in there one picture not by me, but of me - looking
rather nervous on the Ivory Coast rally in the early 1980's. Enjoy!

Born in Frithville (a small village in the south of Lincolnshire) in 1956.

I started to take photographs when I was about 10. Even in those early days I
was never happy to take "snaps", unusual viewpoints and subjects always had
more appeal. My first commission was a shot of the school football team

At 16 I left school to start a foundation course at Lincoln College of Art followed
by a 3 year graphic design and communication course. Much of my time during
these years was spent in the photographic department.

Within weeks of leaving college I had my first full time employment at Lincoln
Photographic. This was mainly darkroom work but it gave me a good insight
into the real world of commercial photography.

Early in 1978, at the age of 21, I had an introduction through a photographic
careers agency to Colin Taylor Productions (at the time one of the country's
leading motorsport picture agencies) and I moved to Kent.

Over the following years I did hundreds of commissions as a freelance for CTP
and travelled very widely. Work included regular coverage of World Rally
Championship events as well as numerous assignments here in the UK, often
for major motor industry clients.