Christopher Bucklow was born in Flixton, Greater Manchester (UK) in 1957 and completed his degree in art history in 1978. Between 1978 and 1995, he worked as a curator in the Prints & Drawings Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. His best-known works include the spectacular, ongoing photographic series “Guests” and “Tetrarchs” (1993 – today), which make him one of the most important protagonists of pinhole camera photography in the UK. His oeuvre has been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions and can be found in prominent museum collections worldwide, among them institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.