I met Chris last year at a book signing for 'In Flagrante' in NY. He was pivotal in my own decision to pursue photography. I found a postcard of one of his photographs [a skinhead grinding his head in to his hands and knees] as a teenager and never forgot it. For a Pakistani boy in London to empathize with a photograph of a skinhead is perhaps the highest compliment he could get, and I told him so, and we both laughed. He also told me that that photo had been swiped for so many music bootleg album covers that he had lost count. Bright, understated and whipsmart - I think his work is only getting better the older he gets.