Chris McCaw

Chris McCaw is an American photographer known for his large-format, long-exposure sunburn photographs, in which the sun's path literally burns through silver gelatin paper, leaving scorched traces across the image. Working with homemade cameras and expired photographic paper used as film, McCaw captures the sun's trajectory over hours or even days, creating unique, one-of-a-kind works that exist at the intersection of photography, time, and natural phenomena. His Sunburned series has garnered significant critical attention for its meditation on light, time, and the physicality of the photographic process.