Chris Joyce was an advertising photographer who has almost disappeared from history. He died young, in his early fifties, before the internet was very active. Websearches often lead to a dead page, including the site his daughter helped set up in 2014. There’s just a tantalising bit of text from the site visible in the searches:
‘Christopher Joyce, photographer 1943 - 1994. Christopher Joyce was a leading British photographer who made his name not only as a highly respected commercial London based photographer, but also as an imaginative and versatile artist. The quality of his work put him amongst the elite photographers who were hired, not because they took photographs that simply complied...’
I came across his work when he spent a short spell writing for Practical Photography, and I remember one thing that he wrote, about landscape photography. He suggested loading ultrafast film (1,000 ASA or higher) and going out with a 70-210 lens – and no tripod.
Where does that leave us? Very, very short on information, that’s where. He was involved in setting up the Lighthouse Darkroom in London, and there was an exhibition in Brighton involving his work. But he published no books, and because he died at almost the same time that the internet was born, his entire web profile is posthumous. It’s a long time since I’ve had such an unsuccessful time searching the web!
I’m sure there will be professional yearbooks that include his work, copies of old trade journals and so on – but there will be precious few of these around. I gave up searching after finding that my copy of the BJP Annual 1970 doesn’t have an alphabetical list of contributors…
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