Christy Lee Rogers

Christy Lee Rogers is an American underwater fine art photographer and experimental filmmaker born in Hawaii. She uses water as a creative tool to create baroque images, using the refraction of light created between water and air.

"My purpose behind the artwork is to question and find understanding in the craziness, tragedy, vulnerability, beauty and power of mankind." CLR

Christy Lee Rogers is a visual artist from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her artwork being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. Boisterous in color and complexity, Rogers applies her cunning technique to a barrage of bodies submerged in water during the night, and creates her effects using the refraction of light. Through a fragile process of experimentation, she builds elaborate scenes of coalesced colors and entangled bodies that exalt the human character as one of vigor and warmth, while also capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the tragic experience that is the human condition. 

Rogers' works have been exhibited globally from Paris, London, Italy, Mexico City to Shanghai, Sao Paulo, South Africa, Los Angeles and more, and are held in private and public collections throughout the world. She has been featured in International Magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar Art China, Elle Decoration, Global Times, The Independent, Casa Vogue, Photo Technique, Photo Korea and others. Rogers' "Reckless Unbound" is currently housed at Longleat House in the UK; the stately home, which is the seat of the Marquesses of Bath and also home to Renaissance gems of the Italian masters, like Titan's "Rest on the Flight into Egypt." She is a two-time finalist for the Contemporary Talents Award from the Fondation François Schneider in France, and has been commissioned by Apple to create underwater images with the iPhone 11Pro, as well as being featured in one of their behind-the-scenes process films. Rogers' art has been featured on several album covers, including "Orchesography" for the 80's band Wang Chung, and her images were selected for the 2013-2014 performance season of the Angers-Nantes Opera in France. In 2019 she won Open Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards.

2020

Finalist, COCA Center of Contemporary Artists 2020, Rome, Barcelona, "Muses".

2019

Open Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards 2018, The World Photography Organization "Harmony"

Honorable Mention, Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2019, Fine Art "Muses"

Silver Award, Moscow International Foto Awards 2019, Portfolio Fine Art "Muses"

Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition 2018, Video & Film, Professional Category, "A Conversation with Angels"

Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition 2018, Video & Film, Professional Category, "Color High"

1st Place Open Motion Category, Sony World Photography Awards 2018, The World Photography Organization "Harmony"

Silver Award, Tokyo International Foto Awards 2018, Professional, Portfolio Fine Art Category "Muses"

Gold Medal, Trierenberg Super Circuit 2019, Panorama "Creation

Silver Award, One Eyeland Photography Awards 2018, Fine Art, Other Category "Muses"

2018

2nd Prize in Fine Art, Chromatic Photography Awards 2018, Professional Category, "Muses" 2018

Visual Art Award, La Cultura Es Femenina 2018 "Muses", Laboratorio de Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura Urbanismo y Cultura (Laboratory of Research and Innovation in Architecture, Urbanism and Culture), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Finalist - Contemporary Talents 2017, Fondation François Schneider, France 

2015

Finalist - Contemporary Talents 2014, Fondation François Schneider, France 

2014

Medal of Honor from the Mayor of the City of Angers, France

Artist Award, Artlightenment, Art & Film Festival, USA

Film Award - Best Poetic Expression, "Elan: Flags", Artlightenment, Art & Film Festival, US

2013

Selected Artist for 2013/2014 Angers-Nantes Opera Performance Season, France

Nominee in fine Art - 6th Annual Photography Masters Cup, Los Angeles, CA

Film Award - Best Artistic Expression, "Of Smoke and Gold", Artlightenment, Art & Film Festival, USA

2012

Finalist - Emergent Artist Award, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Featured - Empty Kingdom - Top 100 Artists of 2011

2011

Finalist - The One Life International Photography Competition

Featured - 500 Photographers by Pieter Wisse

Por: Galeria Gabriel Wickbold