Christian Mackie
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Christian Mackie

Photographer in United Kingdom, He/They

Find me everywhere online via @mackiec or through my website mackiec.xyz

2 months ago

I am primarily a documentary and editorial photographer drawn to travelling, and discovering the uniqueness of people as they exist within their lived spaces. My work draws heavy influence from the world of street photography, capturing real life scenes without a veneer, and inviting the audience to examine their relationship to the work as a voyeur.

Additionally, I dabble in development and design practices, primarily working in HTML/CSS/JS. I like to mix tactile and digital experiences that provide moments of surprise.

Projects

2024

An experimental online gallery that mimics the experience of sequencing physical 4x6 prints on a tabletop. The series is comprised of 37 images.

Viewers can 'discard' images by throwing them offscreen, choose to pile their favourites, or sequence their own unique set.

Developed using html, css, and javascript, the project is a lightweight application blending art and technology for a new interactive approach to exploring a set of images on a webpage.

Images featured are all analog frames captured in Japan throughout Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, using a Leica M6 with 35mm Kodak Portra and Cinestill films.

mackiec.xyz/japan-4x6-proj…

2023

This project is an attempt to understand what I have seen since moving as an expat to the United Kingdom. I have seen vignettes of detestable greyness, and then vibrant beauty - often within the same hour. How can one place be so different, all the time?

The 40 images featured within are circumstantial juxtapositions, with each new page providing a kindred narrative to the other. A couple walks their dog up an incline overlooking the sea, while people busily walk down a sun-patched incline in the city. Friends ride fake horses in a field next to a parking lot, while a girl swims her real one at the beach.

We all must find what we like.

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A5 [210mm x 148mm]
44 Pages
Paper: 170 GSM - Uncoated
Cover: 350 GSM - Recycled Silk
Digital Printed
Stapled

2023

Across 5 years of travel throughout the UK and the EU, a familiar scene of people finding their way around began to catch my attention as a meaningful part of a single day's journey. We can be so hesitant to ask for help, especially if it reveals us to be vulnerable in any way. To admit that one is lost is a doubling-down on admitting our helplessness.

In these 33 images, we see couples finding their way through the world together, individuals identifying their place in the world, and strangers being asked for their directional advice.

All of it shines a light on our blind spots and helps us to understand the path forward, however winding it might be.


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A5 [210mm x 148mm]
36 Pages
Paper: 170 GSM - Uncoated
Cover: 350 GSM - Recycled Silk
Digital Printed
Stapled

Work Experience

2014 — Now
London

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