Photographer Chris
Gibbs was born in Manchester, England in 1966. He studied electrical
engineering at Leigh College before switching to photography and graduating in
1984. After completing a commercial photography apprenticeship, he
volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was accepted into the Joint Service
School of Photography.
His tour of duty
ended a few weeks after the Gulf War began. And, although Gibbs never saw
combat, he credits his military training with teaching him how to “get the job
done.” As a civilian, he worked in advertising, moved to Seal Beach,
California with his wife Sharon, and in 1996 followed the lure of adventure and
migrated, via a VW van, to Alaska, where he lived through summer 2013.
In early April, a
few of Gibbs’s photographs were featured on The Online Photographer, and
Dog Art Today reader Nicholas Von Staden sent me the link. I
clicked through to Gibbs’s website and got lost in his “Dog
Musher Series,” a three-year collaboration documenting
58-year-old Allen Lau’s quest to qualify for the
Iditarod. BY MOIRA McLAUGHLIN, June 06, 2013
All images © Chris
Gibbs
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