Kris Emmerson was born on the first of January 1965. After leaving school he studied photography at Brunel University, and then spent several years travelling around Europe, North Africa, Asia, South-East Asia and Australia, finally living in a small village in the Indian Himalayas. He has worked as a freelance photographer, darkroom technician, paste-up artist and graphic designer, and is currently employed as a technician on the Fine Art degree course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, where he is also studying. Over the last few years Kris has been exhibiting work in the Galleria d'Art Zero in Barcelona, Spain, and last year participated in the '1st International Salon of Contemporary Artists' in Lisbon, Portugal.