Bio

In 1971, Kris Snibbe was born in Manhattan, New York.

In 1986, during a High School course taught by Jack Savage in Carmel, CA., he began a long-term project photographing skateboarding and its culture.

In 1993, he graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Photojournalism.

In 1997, he studied photography with Jack Lueders-Booth at Harvard University.

In 2005, he studied and practiced photography with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb during workshops in Boston and Provincetown .

In March of 2007, the Harvard University Extension School awarded him a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Studio Arts and Film, with honors. His thesis about Alex Webb's photojournalism won The Dean's Prize for Outstanding A.L.M. Thesis in the Humanities at the Harvard University Extension School.

He has worked as a staff photographer for the Harvard University News Office since 1994, photographing the academic community, social issues, science, and the arts at Harvard University.

His photography projects have revolved around sociopolitical aspects of Buddhism in Tibet, China, India, and the Boston area. He has also photographed in France, Mexico City and San Francisco.