Warm Greetings!

Hello, and welcome to my website! I’m Chris Allan (she/her/hers), and I’m a photojournalist, stock, and fine art photographer who lives in Auburn, California.

My vision is to bear witness to this amazing, horrifying and always changing world or ours and to push myself to find different ways of seeing.

There's I love nothing better than getting out into Auburn and the area to see what's happening!  I'm a contributor to the local paper, and use some of my images for editorial and stock photography for the three agencies (Shutterstock, Adobe and Alamy).

Over the years, I’ve also been fortunate to travel all over the world.  Those images area also in my stock portfolios, and some of them have also appeared in numerous publications, from The Sun Magazine, to the Humane Society, to Rotarian Magazine.

I'm also a proud member of the queer community and I'm so excited that gay pride events have slowly started to resume.  I've written and photographed for Outword (our regional's LGBTIQ+ paper) for many years, with highlights being my cover photos of Jason Brown and Adam Rippon from the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships and coverage of President Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg when they were in the area.

When I'm not out and about, I also create fine art images.  They are usually based on my local or wider travels.  Through them, I work to bring new perspectives to those images by emphasizing the use of macro and other abstraction, reflections, collages, interval image compilations, and in-camera multiple exposures.  I also think it is important to ponder difficult realities, such as the plights of animals in captivity, self-reveal the fluidities of gender, and speak my mind on politics.

My fine art images have also appeared (and sold) in art galleries and centers across the state. I’ve received a number of awards, and I sell images privately and commercially. If you are interested in purchasing copies of any of the images you see on the site, please use the contact form.

Equipment-wise, these days I shoot Nikon D780 and D750 for their great portability and all-round performance.  My Tamron 2.8 24-70mm and Nikon 2.8 70 - 200mm are my go-to event lenses, while a series of primes (14/20/35/50/90 - macro) fill out my fine art lens stable.  I am also still learning my way around my iPhone 11 Pro Max camera.

You are welcome to access my stock images at Shutterstock and Alamy for licensed usage for commercial and editorial uses including websites, books, magazines, brochures and advertising.

To learn more about me and my work, please see my Bio page.  📷