Chris Noble is one of the most widely published, broadly experienced, location photographers working today. With a career spanning more than two decades, Noble has photographed everything from mountaineering expeditions in the Himalaya for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC to multi-million-dollar ad campaigns for clients including The North Face, Nike, and Japan’s Mild Seven Cigarettes.

AMERICAN PHOTO Magazine wrote that "the secret to Noble’s success is that there is no dividing line between adventure and his photography." POWDER Magazine said, "Chris’ work is the epitome of what adventure is all about."

No photographer has been more adept at combining athleticism with aesthetics. Noble uses his mastery of outdoor skills such as climbing, skiing, river running, and scuba diving; in conjunction with his background in visual fine arts, to bring an enthusiast’s passion and an artist’s sensibility to the subjects he photographs.

Recently, he has been pursuing a new body of work: producing fine art images which explore the spiritual dimension of remote landscape, ancient culture and traditional peoples.

Using all the tools and techniques of modern image making, Noble creates timeless, soul-filled images of those fragments of the primeval world that have escaped the ravages of industrialization, and which remain refuges of beauty, serenity, spirit and renewal.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Beginning his career as a photojournalist, Noble’s writing and images have appeared editorially in publications worldwide, including features in OUTSIDE, GEO, POWDER, and SIERRA. His short fiction was included in the 1984 edition of ASCENT, an anthology of mountaineering literature published by the Sierra Club. In 1996 Noble photographed the attempts of an American team to climb the North Wall of Thelay Sagar in India’s Garwal Himalaya for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine. He has participated in and photographed over a dozen expeditions for The North Face, and served on that company’s research and development team for many years. Working in total darkness within the world’s largest cave system, the Mulu Caves of Borneo, home to giant spiders and 12 million bats, Noble shot for Editions Millet of France, for the book, "Malaysia: Heart of Southeast Asia. His photographs have been featured as four separate covers for OUTSIDE, and his work has been included in both editions of "Exposure," book anthologies of the finest of OUTSIDE’s photography. Noble has been profiled in OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER, POWDER, BACKPACKER, ALASKA AIRLINES and AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER Magazines. He has been a featured speaker at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C., and at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Banff in Alberta, Canada. "Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing," a volume of his black and white landscape photography with text by Brooke Williams of the Escalante Region of Southern Utah was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2006.