Christian Walker

Christian Walker (1953, Springfield, Massachusetts – 2003) was an American photographer and critic primarily active in Boston and Atlanta from the mid 1970s until the mid 1990s.

Art career Walker's work explored multiple topics and themes, including the intersections of race, sexuality, drug use, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Walker first became active in the arts scene in Boston after moving there in 1974. He then moved to Atlanta; Around this time, Walker also began using non-traditional techniques, such as double exposure, and materials, such as paint, in his photographs.

In 1985, he began his Miscegenation Series (which would continue until 1988), in which he explored interracial relationships through 15 sepia-tone, close up photographs. Walker would also go on to write an essay, The Miscegenated Gaze, in which he called on white artists to "embrace and celebrate the concept of non-white subjectivity". In another project looking at Southern racial divides, Walker's Another Country series (whose name was inspired by James Baldwin's novel of the same name) juxtaposed images from the National Archives, rephotographed with "the black line of the 35mm negative as a dividing line". and the Studio Museum in Harlem.