Kris Hollington is a documentary and architectural photographer whose work explores lived space, infrastructure, and the quiet social life of buildings and landscapes.
After a career as a journalist and bestselling non-fiction author, Kris came to photography in his forties, bringing with him a deep engagement with narrative, systems, and observation developed through years of investigative work. This background continues to inform a photographic practice rooted in sustained looking rather than spectacle.
His first major photographic project, Back to Normal — a long-term documentation of life in London during the COVID-19 pandemic — was supported by an Arts Council England grant and published as a photobook in 2021. The project was acquired by public collections and marked his full transition to photography as his primary medium.
Kris has since developed a body of work focused on the relationship between people, architecture, and the structures that organise everyday life. Ongoing projects include Between the City and the Sea, a long-term study of the River Thames east of London, examining the estuary as a working landscape shaped by infrastructure, regulation, and everyday use.
He works regularly with architects and cultural institutions, including a commissioned body of work for Allies and Morrison, documenting their projects through a people-centred, documentary approach to architectural photography. He is also currently developing Whitechapel Market, a major photographic project documenting one of London’s most historic street markets at a moment of profound change, culminating in a public exhibition at Tower Hamlets Town Hall.
Kris lives and works in London. His work is concerned with places shaped by use, negotiation, and time — and with how large systems register quietly in everyday space.