Chris Rainier, Photographer July 31, 2008

Chris Rainier is considered to be one of the world's leading documentary photographers. Rainier's elegant black and white photographs reflect humanity's efforts to forge identity, beauty, storytelling and sacred beliefs. His images span from the savannahs of Africa to the barrios of Los Angeles connecting the indigenous forms of tattooing, scarification, piercing and other forms of body-altering art.