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Levi Christiansen is a photographer based in Tucson, Arizona, working in a documentary practice rooted in analog photography. His work examines memory, identity, and the contradictions embedded in contemporary American life through found moments observed in everyday environments. He is drawn to places where personal history, ideology, and social ritual intersect, creating images that move between clarity and ambiguity.
After studying photography at Brooks Institute of Photography, Christiansen moved to New York, where he worked in commercial and editorial photography, assisting photographers including Bruce Weber, Jonas Fredwall Karlsson, and Graciela Iturbide. After more than a decade in the industry, he returned to the Southwest to focus on long-form personal projects grounded in sustained observation and the physical process of film.
His recent work includes American Context, an ongoing series exploring instability, fragmentation, and national identity through contextless scenes of contemporary life, and Stay at Home, a body of work examining domestic space, parenthood, masculinity, and shifting identity through the experience of becoming a stay-at-home father. His work has been exhibited nationally and published in group photography projects including Color of Noise (Ephemere, 2026).
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My practice uses analog photography to engage with the tension between perception and experience. I work with found moments—scenes that are unposed yet charged—allowing the ordinary to reveal complexity and contradiction. I am drawn to contrasts: intimacy and instability, clarity and uncertainty, the familiar and the uncanny. These photographs explore how narratives unfold in everyday life, reflecting the instability of truth and the subtle forces that shape how we inhabit the world. The work is both observational and interpretive, creating a space to notice the unexpected rhythms, textures, and tensions that structure experience.
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2024 Center for Fine Art Photography: Center Forward Group Show (Honorable Mention)
2024 Decode Gallery: Southwest Group Show
2019 Julia Martin Gallery: Bevy Group Show
2017 Eric Fischl Gallery: Vanguard Award Group Show (Runner-up)
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