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Hey There, I’m Chris

Chris Gampat
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12/28/2009
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Last Updated on 08/24/2016 by Mark Beckenbach

Self Portrait in Black

Hey there, thanks for coming to the blog as it is under serious construction still (I’m open to ideas.) As my first posting I’ll write up a little bit about what I am and what I do. Hit the jump for more.

I’m a photographer, videographer, blogger, musician, gamer, modern day adventurer, poet; you might as well just call me a Modern Day Bard.

At my time of writing this, I work for Blind Photographers, 2D-X, and Photography Bay.

I shoot

Events (Maria Sharapova unveiling her Diamond Powershot Collection)

Maria Sharapova and her Canon Powershot Diamond Collection

Concerts (The Blip Festival)

The Crowd Loves Failotron at the Blip Festival

Photojournalism (The Recession in NYC)

The Recession in New York City

Street (Halloween Parade 09)

Red Riding Hood as Marilyn Monroe

Headshots (Shannon)

Shanon and her eyes

Portraits (My friend Matt)

Matt with Mike's Flash

NYC (View from the top of the Rock)

The Empire State Building

Celebrities (Gerard Butler)

Gerard Butler on the set of "The Bounty" Compilation

I love video games, mostly PC games but I’m not particularly picky and see the strengths in all platforms. I’ve been a tech journalist for a couple years now: working for Geek.com, PCMag.com amongst others.

I used to intern at Magnum Photos and have been published in the NYTimes amongst others.

I’m looking forward to developing a great relationship with you all.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.