If you ask C. J. about his influences, he won’t mention the famous ones first. Sure there’s Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photographs still evoke an intimacy with strangers from decades past; the well-traveled Joey Lawrence, an emerging master of the digital lens; and Joe Buissink, wedding photographer to the good and the great. But before all of these comes Greg Fox, his father and his greatest influence.

C.J. has been shooting photography since he was 9 years old, and though he still misses photo excursions to the mountains near his boyhood home in Salt Lake City, he has come to enjoy portrait photography. “My favorite photographs simply express the daily lives of people. There is something very rewarding in capturing someone’s characteristic look, smile, or laugh in a photograph.”

As all good portrait photographers know, you have to be able to put people at ease if you hope to capture their personality. C.J. is as good with people as he is with his camera, as the pictures on this site quietly evidence.   

C.J.’s photographic aspirations are mostly humble. He would like to shoot a wedding at a Mall, or in Australia, and he would like to photograph climbers on Mt. Everest. Of course, by humble, I mean probably not going to happen. But you never know. People still get married in Australia and climb mountains. He might get two out of three.