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Chris is a Master Photographer*, Master Artist* and Certified Professional Photographer (CPP), as well as an Associate and Photographic Fellow of Maryland Professional Photographers Association (MDPPA). He has participated in photographic competition at the state, district, and IPC levels every year since 2013. He is an active member of Professional Photographers of America, Maryland Professional Photographers Association, and the American Society of Photographers, and teaches professional photographers around the country.

In 2020 he earned his Master Artist* degree with a majority of his degree-earning competition merits in the artist restoration category. He is a regular presenter at local and state workshops on photographic restoration and product photography, as well as other topics.

Chris’s photographic restorations were awarded 1st place in the 2019 Southeast District Photographic Competition, and two were named among the top ten restorations in the International Photographic Competition, earning him finalist designations for 2020 Grand Imaging Awards in the Artist Restoration category. His work was also named a finalist in the Grand Imaging Awards each year from 2019-2022, and he received the Grand Imaging Award for Artist Restoration in 2021.

*Photographers earn Master Photographer and Master Artist degrees through participation in the International Photographic Competition, where 5-member panels of expert, trained jurors judge entries against 12 criteria of photographic excellence and award a “merit” to works that they determine to be “of exhibition quality” or better. To earn a degree, a photographer or artist must accumulate 13 merits in competition, along with 12 merits through education or service to the industry.