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Christopher Payne is an American photographer who specializes in industrial and architectural photography.
Payne is the author of Making Steinway: An American Workplace,[1] North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City,[2] Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals[3] that includes a foreword by Oliver Sacks,[4][5] and New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway.[6]
Originally trained as an architect, Payne has exhibited his photographs in the United States,[7] the United Kingdom[8] and the Netherlands.[9] He received his BA from Columbia University in 1990 and MArch from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.[10][11]
Payne was the recipient of the 2010 Ken Book Award,[12] and the 2015 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50.[13]
While making road trips to visit abandoned asylums and quarantine hospitals, Payne enjoys eating at Burger King restaurants.
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