Contact

Email: 
info@krisaskey.com

Other:
instagram.com/krisaskey
threads.net/@krisaskey

Bio

Kris Askey is a photographer based in Worcestershire UK who has a passion for photographing people & the places they are in. His natural approach to photography explores themes of identity, passion, intimacy & vulnerability to show who people are, where they’re from & what they do.

Using a blend of documentary & portraiture practices, Kris aims to showcase an authentic & ‘lived experience’ throughout his work. Having been a photographer for over 13 years, he experiments with both digital & analogue practices whenever possible and has worked on commissions for a range of clients including the NHS, Coca Cola, Apple, Disney, Coop, UKTV, PUMA & others.

Clientele

Apple, Disney, NHS, Coca Cola, COOP, Costa Coffee, Puma, GymShark, UKTV Play, Selfridges, The REP Birmingham, B’ham Children’s Hospital, B’ham Women’s Hospital, West Midlands Ambulance Service, Bauer Media, Free Radio.

features/links

Street Photography Int'l Awards - Finalist (2020)
‘Split-Second City’ - Kings Heath, B’ham (2017)
‘Stars of Steelhouse Lane’ - Victoria Sq, B’ham (2016)
’Unfiltered Lives’ - University of B’ham (2021)

ILFORD Photo Interview - Kris Askey (2021)
EMULSIVE Interview - Kris Askey (2021)
B’ham Now, Before Then - I Choose Bham (2019)
B'ham Living Magazine (2018)
JPEGmini - ‘Facing The Unknown’ (2017)
Fused Magazine (2017)
‘The Great Commute’ - I Choose B'ham (2016)

Group Exhibits

UKTV Play Exhibition
Covent Garden, London (2022)
Invisible Britain: This Separated Isle
Impressions Gallery, Bradford (2022)
Invisible Britain: This Separated Isle
FFoto Gallery, Cardiff (2022)
Street Photography International Awards
London (2020)
‘B’ham Now, Before Then’
The Lansdowne, B’ham (2019)
RBSA Photographic Prize
Jewellery Quarter, B’ham (2019)
Project B’ham - A Sense Of Place
Medicine Gallery, B’ham (2018)
RBSA Photographic Prize
Jewellery Quarter, B’ham (2017)
'Best of Birmingham'
Museum of Jewellery Quarter, B’ham (2017)
Assoc. Architects/RIBA ‘Westside/Eastside’
Mailbox, B’ham (2017)
Project B’ham / Kris Askey
The Old Crown. B’ham (2017)
‘FRAME16’
Millennium Point, B’ham (2016)

Talks/W’shops

Great Barr Photographic Society, West Bromwich (2020)
University of Birmingham Photo Society, B’ham (2019)
B’ham Photography Festival (Panel), B’ham (2018)
Great Barr Photographic Society, West Bromwich (2018)
Stourbridge Photographic Society, Stourbridge (2018)
Apple Photowalk, Apple Store, B’ham (2017) 
IGers B’ham, B’ham & Midland Institute, B’ham (2017)
Park View Gallery, Kings Heath, B’ham (2017)
Solihull Photographic Society, Solihull (2017)
King Edward VI College, Nuneaton (2016)