Chris Moran is a visual storyteller whose work traces the space between action and process. Raised in the suburbs just outside New York City, he developed an early appetite for art, fashion, and music through frequent immersions in the city’s cultural landscape
 

A move to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is where he began using the camera as a tool for both observation and participation, documenting the rhythm of mountain life and the culture surrounding professional snowboarding. His work from this period found its way into publications and collaborations with leading brands, capturing athletes in moments that felt both expansive and deeply human
 

Since returning to New York in 2016, Moran has shifted his focus toward commercial photography and moving image. Based in Brooklyn, he works within the realm of large-scale, hand-painted outdoor advertising, where his perspective centers not on the finished mural alone, but on the layered, often unseen process behind it. His images and films explore the physicality of creation, scale, labor, and the fleeting moments that exist just outside the public eye
 

Moran currently serves full-time as Director of Video Production at Colossal Media, where he continues to expand his practice through motion, documenting the intersection of craft, environment, and storytelling with a distinct and observant lens