2 Cities 48 Hours

Benton Harbor ~ St. Joseph - A Photo Essay Project - August 27 & 28, 2004

 

Christopher E. Schneiter


© Christopher Schneiter

Chris Schneiter has over 35 years of photographic experience, 22 of it being commercial. After many years of working in many studios doing work for clients such as Kelloggs, Meijer, Upjohn, and many ad agencies, He decided to start his own studio in 1999, and has since done work for the likes of Walmart, Meijer, Knape & Vogt, Old Orchard Fruit Juices, Bissell, Amway, and many others. In 2003, he and two other commercial photographers formed Green Frog Photo in Grand Rapids (www.greenfrogphoto.com), further expanding their photographic scope.

Being a specialist in high volume product photography, Chris has Photographed Digitally since 1992, when he was an in-house photographer for Meijer Inc.. He now shoots totally digitally, and has developed a great deal of expertise in the areas of color management and image processing.

A 1978 graduate in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Schneiter began as a technically oriented Photo Fine Artist, teaching photography for several years, ran a gallery specializing in photography and worked in museums. In 1982, Chris joined fellow 2/48 photographer Gary Cialdella in producing “The Lake Michigan Shoreline Project”, an archival photo documentary project with an exhibition still available for circulation.

To Schneiter, the 2/48 project represented a re-entry into non-profit photography and a welcome respite from the day to day grind of commercialism, as well as a wonderful reunion with a group of photographers he hadn’t seen in many years.

http://www.greenfrogphoto.com