Hailing from Exit 4 of the New Jersey Turnpike, Chris Rexon keeps her South Jersey and Philadelphia roots close to her heart and vision. Taking a photo class at PCA (UArts) in the summer of '72 started a lifelong path to camera craftsmanship and fine art imaging.
Armed with a photojournalism degree from Syracuse’s Newhouse School, Chris worked for the Smithsonian covering Washington's bicentennial events, settled in DC and taught photography at the National Cathedral School. It was during this time that her work expanded to include fine art, event, portrait and editorial assignments.

And her vision and inspirations? Well, you can circle back to Exit 4 and the visual DNA that came from a family of artists: a grandfather who painted geometric Hex signs on Pennsylvania barns incorporating cyclic symmetry and a mother who used mixed media to give form to ethereal landscapes. Given that mix and crossover of two divergent sides of the brain, it is no wonder that Chris feels equally at home with classic black & white film and rock solid composition as well as digital, filtered and manipulated blasts of color or muted blurs of nature.

Chris agrees: “I know the ongoing dialogue within: the sun soaked field and a nightmarish industrial landscape. The shaft of light that locks a bird in flight as well as life's fluidity. All are ever present and drive me to preserve their story, emphasizing pattern, line, simplicity, complexity and irony."

Recently, Rexon Photo has expanded to include a new location in Lewes, Delaware; a coastal oasis on the Delmarva Peninsula. Along with trips back "home" to New England, to continue research on a forthcoming book on Edward Steichen, Chris plans to continue teaching and outfit a van with ladder and platform to shoot from above. Honk if you see her gathering images and studying what the road reveals.