Chris Donovan is a documentary photographer, artist, and educator based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a PhD candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University and works on long-term photographic projects which address issues of class and environmental justice primarily in the Canadian Maritimes and the American Midwest. He is the founding director of a new photography festival based in New Brunswick called Photo E(a)st. 

Donovan is the author of The Cloud Factory published by GOST Books in 2025 and Stay Solid or Move West published by Boreal Collective Press in 2021. His work has been exhibited at galleries across Canada and beyond including The Image Centre in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada, and regularly appears in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Globe and Mail.

His work has been recognized by a World Press Photo Award, the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, the Environmental Vision Award from POYi, and the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award.


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Atlantic Canada & elsewhere

1-506-650-3394

chrisdonovan33@gmail.com

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