Chris Shaw

Chris Shaw (born 1961) is an English documentary photographer.

Career Shaw studied at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) from 1986–89.

Shaw works with independent publishers and he has created small editions of several photographic series including: Retrospecting Sandy Hill (2015), Life as a Night Porter (2006), Weeds of Wallasey (2012), horizon icons (2015), Tokyo in HK (with Tokyo Rummando, 2017), and The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game (2019).

In his 2006 monograph Life as a Night Porter, Shaw published photographs taken over a ten-year period whilst working as a night porter at certain London hotels, "all the time he kept his camera with him, recording in black and white grainy photographs the many strange events that he witnessed, taking pictures." In 2004 Alexander McQueen and Nick Knight chose the pictures as the winning entry in an Independent on Sunday fashion photography competition.

In The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game "we are amid the vibrant nightlife of a Thai holiday resort".

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, journalist John Preston said, "Shaw remains an evasive, almost blurry character who seems to belong in the shadows and who can't bear being stuck in one place for too long." Chris Shaw and Moriyama: Before and After Night, Tate Britain, London, 2013/14. Shaw's Life as a Night Porter, Sandy Hill Estate and Weeds of Wallasey as well as photographs by Daidō Moriyama. Weeds of Wallasey, Exposure, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 2015. Shaw with Alex F. Webb, David Fathi, Francesca Seravalle, Marianne Bjørnmyr, Boris Eldagsen, George Miles, Karl Ohiri, and others. Night Porter, agnès b. gallery, Paris, 2016 .The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game Pattaya photographs November 2019 Vu Gallerie.paris.France. .Tufnell Park Hilton..photographs London photo-zen photo gallerie May 2023

Collections Shaw's work is held in the following permanent collections: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Tate, London: 72 prints (as of June 2018) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Archive of Modern Conflict, London Wilson centre, Hampstead, London FRAC, for NANTES, France