Christie Fluder

Initially a poet experimenting with the visual arts, Christie Fluder began creating film work, finding his filmmaking take shape in college. These studies led to further pursuit in producing and a career as a Writer/Producer/Director. In photography, Christie examines contrast and dichotomy. Eschewing artistic conventions, he captures features of real life as they occur — whether beautiful or horrifying. Since beginning to show his photography in 2019, Christie has been selected for over 50 international juried group exhibitions. Of Christie’s first solo exhibition, “Ad Amnesia: Identity and recall in the modern age," Curator Daniel Shay of the National Gallery of Art commented that Christie’s photography “Captures the poetry of life in the hive.” Christie is based out of New York City.

Society exists in a tempest of media, resulting in a kind of blindness. We live in an era when many overlook the beauty, irony, depth, frivolity, agony, and sincerity of everyday life. Unable to identify these things in others, we may soon lose the ability to see them in ourselves.

The life of a memory is fluid. It changes as we grow; our memories become stories. Some memories come from dreams. It is perhaps in the recesses of our reflections that we are most challenged to fight a regressive impulse and examine honestly the worth of our actions and thoughts.

In my photography, I am looking to trigger memories, dreams, thoughts and reflections: creating a conversation around the stories those tell and bringing the subconscious forward. Taking photographs enables a communicable examination and interrogation of the human condition (conscious or otherwise), which has become a principal driver in my work.