Christopher Boffoli

Christopher Boffoli (born in 1969 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a fine art photographer, photojournalist, independent filmmaker, and journalist based in Seattle. He is best known for his "Big Appetites" photographs series, in which tiny, detailed human figures pose in real food environments. His photos have been published in dozens of countries around the world, and are displayed in galleries and private collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Career While in college, Boffoli started his own commercial photography company in Charleston, South Carolina, and later worked for 12 years as a philanthropic fundraiser for universities such as Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics. After recovering from a fall during a climbing expedition of Mount Rainier in which he suffered a broken leg and nerve and tendon damage, he decided that a career in academia was not as fulfilling as "doing creative things" and focused his energy on the arts. Boffoli purchases the miniature figures from Europe, and occasionally re-paints or cuts them physically or alters them digitally.

By 2011, Boffoli's photographs were featured in a variety of international media, including Oprah.com, the Toronto Star, and the Huffington Post. In 2012, his photographs were featured in many more publications worldwide, Der Spiegel, The Washington Post Lifestyle blog, the Village Voice blog, Bon Appétit s online blog, and MSNBC's First Look program. In 2012 Boffoli sued Twitter for copyright infringement and for ignoring Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests to take his photos down from Twitter servers. After a suit was filed in federal court,

Boffoli was a James Beard Award finalist in 2012 in the humor category, for images which accompanied an article about his work in The Kitchn. One of Boffoli's photos was the cover image of the Spring 2013 issue of Lucky Peach, the quarterly journal of food writing,

Boffoli is also an avid traveler and photojournalist. His travels are well documented in photographs