Chris Smith is a magazine writer, photographer, editor, and college teacher who has worked in the Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus, and the US. He has written for the likes of The American Prospect, Afar, California, and Mother Jones.com, and he is a contributing writer at San Francisco. He did his undergrad at UNC Chapel Hill, got a Master's in Journalism at UC Berkeley, and now teaches journalism and geopolitics at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. A Detroiter by upbringing and a San Franciscan by choice, he is a surfer, metal fan, and cat person. He is available for assignments worldwide. His Twitter feed is right here. Flickr? Here.

EXHIBITIONS/ WORK ON DISPLAY

-4xAfrica (2011)
Images from urban Africa
Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

-Selections 2005: Emerging Artists from San Francisco and Paris (2005)
LIMN Gallery, San Francisco

-Shisa Nyama/ Township Life in South Africa (2003)
Exhibition at Reverie Cafe, San Francisco

-Den (2002)
Work shown at Mission District home-design store

-Cairo: A Day Like Any Other (2001)
Exhibition at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

A selection of matted 16 x 20 images is available at Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.