Wife During Quarantine

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/People
• Photographer
  Chris Sorensen, United States
• Date of Photograph
  Various from 4/27/20 to 5/23/21
• Website
  https://www.chris-sorensen.com
• Instagram
  @_chris_sorensen

When covid hit, I had little desire to shoot for weeks, having lost what I enjoy most, making portraits of different people. Then I realized I hadn't lost anything. I had all the people I needed in my quarantine partner, my wife. And together we started creating in our little New York apartment. Initially it wasn’t Wife During Quarantine or a defined project, it was just doing something, anything, other than thinking about the pandemic. But it quickly became a collaboration working together to see what we could create alone in our apartment with what we had at home.

Chris Sorensen is a New York editorial and fine art portraitist who escaped the corporate world and was lucky to find photography where I can make art that helps keep me sane these days. The pandemic project I made with my amazing wife - entitled Wife During Quarantine appropriately enough - is now a book available here. Clients have included American Way, Hemispheres, ESPN the Magazine, MONEY, Wine Spectator, Popular Mechanics, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Washington Post Magazine, and InStyle.

Awards International Photography Awards: Advertising Photographer of the Year (2026), 1st place Self-Promotion (2026), 1st & 2nd Place Editorial Portrait (2023), 3rd place Fine Art portrait (2021)

American Photographic Artists APA Awards: 1st Place Celebrity Portrait (2026), 2nd Place Conceptual Portrait (2024), 3rd place Celebrity Portrait (2021)

Selected for American Photography (AP30, AP32, AP35, AP36, AP37, AP38, AP39, AP41, AP42)

Chosen for Communication Arts Photo Annual ('14, '16, '18, '22-Best In Show, '24, '26)

PDN Faces: Grand Prize winner (2013), Celebrity Portrait Series winner (2016)

Critical Mass: Finalist (2023)