Chris Wright is a visual anthropologist holding the position of lecturer at

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a Member institutions of the University of London, constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The G ...

, and professor at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

. Wright originally trained as an artist before becoming Photographic Archivist at the

Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

in 1992. He has published on a number of topics including the relationship between art and anthropology and photography in the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

.Wright, Chris (2014) The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands, Duke University Press

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Chris British anthropologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London