Chris Rainier is considered one of the leading documentary photographers working today. His mysterious images of
sacred places and indigenous peoples of the planet have been seen in the leading publications of the day including: Time, Life, National Geographic publications, Outside, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Men’s Journal, Islands, The New Yorker, German and French Geo, and the publications of the International Red Cross, The United Nations, and Amnesty International.

Rainier, a Canadian citizen is a photographer for the National Geographic Society and specializes in documenting indigenous cultures for the Societies Cultures Initiative. His life’s Mission is to help empower Indigenous peoples, – helping them to use photography and technology to the enhance their culture & lives.

Chris is a National Geographic Fellow, is a Co-Director of the Enduring Voices Language Preservation Project, a Co-Director of the National Geographic Society Cultures Ethnosphere Program, and Director of the Society’s All Roads Photography Program. Rainier is a contributing Editor for National Geographic Traveler, as well a Contributing Photographer for National Geographic Adventure Magazine, regularly completing stories on Culture. Rainier is a Photographic Correspondent – at -large for National Public Radios ( NPR) Day to Day Show with Alex Chadwick His photographs and books have been widely exhibited and collected
around the world.

He has numerous received awards for his photography including: Five Picture of the Year Awards for his continued documentation of vanishing tribes, A Communication Arts award for his last book on New Guinea, Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea, and an International Golden Light Award in 1994 for his first book: Keepers of the Spirit. Chris was included in American PHOTO Magazine’s 100 most influential people working in Photography today list. Rainier has traveled to all seven continents, and has been apart of an expedition to the North Pole and seven expeditions to Antarctica. He has worked as a war photographer for Time Magazine and numerous other media outlets covering conflicts in: Sarajevo/Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Rwanda, the war in Iraq, the Middle East, and most recently covering the Tsunami disaster in Banda Aceh, Indonesia He is a member of the Explorers Club in New York City, and in 2002 won their prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for Adventure story telling.