Christina Jansen

  • About
    About

    Christina Jansen was born in Amsterdam to a Liverpudlian writer mother and a Dutch photojournalist father, and from a young age she knew she wanted to be an artist. When she was eleven, she left Holland with her mother and brother to live in Devon, where she had to learn English fast. 

     

    After A Levels, she did a foundation course in art, specialising in silkscreen printing, then she studied art and drama at Crewe & Alsager College in Stoke-on Trent.

     

    There she explored photo silkscreen, photo etching and photography in more depth, and gained a BA Hons. Her first job was photographing all the pre-1950s buildings in Stoke-on Trent for Hanley City Museum. 

     

    Christina moved to London and began taking photographic portraits. Over the years her subjects have included Muhammad Ali, Zandra Rhodes, Robert Plant, Van Morrison, Bob Hoskins, Brian Cox, Jon Snow, Joan Bakewell and Andrew Marr, as well as many top music artists and bands. 

     

    Christina’s  work has taken her around the world including Shooting all of Northern Europe for the RAC Eurotunnel book ‘Weekends across the Channel’, she has travelled around America, Canada, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Malta, and most recently she photographed John Otway in The Caribbean where she got to fly over a live volcano in a helicopter . 

     

    Christina Jansen won an award from The British Journal of Photography for ‘Canvas and Camera’ taking a portrait. She has also received commissions to photograph fashion, travel, album covers, production stills for TV commercials and films, corporate events, weddings, food and interiors, but portraits are her first love.

  • She likes experimenting with creative artworks for exhibitions. As well as her Canon camera, she uses a 1950s Olympus Pen...

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    She likes experimenting with creative artworks for exhibitions. As well as her Canon camera, she uses a 1950s Olympus Pen S that she inherited from her father to produce black and white images that look as if they were taken sixty or seventy years ago.

     

    She has exhibited this work under the title “Timeless”. In 2012, she curated an exhibition of Muhammad Ali photos at the London Olympics, to celebrate his 70th birthday showing her own photos of the legendary boxer amongst 70 images of him by photographers and artists from around the world, including Chris Gollon and Terry O’Neill.

     

    Christina has worked with many galleries in London and internationally, and the exhibitions she has contributed to In London included themes “Kiss”, “Passion”, “Muse”, “Model or Mistress”, “Masks”, and “Celebrating Muhammad Ali”.

     

    Christina was a presenter on BBC2’s Photo Show, she taught black-and white photography at Syracuse University, London, and she has taken photographs for several illustrated books including The Joy of Sex and Pregnancy and Childcare, The  History of Rock’N’Roll Guitar ..and many others. 

     

     

    From 2008 until his untimely death in 2017, Christina was Chris Gollon’s press photographer, taking photos of the artist and his exhibition private views for publications and for IAP Fine Art, and Chris returned the compliment by painting her portrait.