Christopher W Sims CV

International Premio Arte Laguna · 2015 Organized by the Italian Cultural Association MoCA, with support from the Italian Head of State, and the patronage of, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, and the European Institute of Design (IED).

Short List

Other Athens Photo Festival · 2012

“100 Under 100: Superstar of Southern Art”

Other Oxford American · 2012

Short List

Other Forward Thinking Museum · 2011

Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer

Other Baum Foundation / SF Camerawork. 2010 · 2010 Jury: Bruce Hainley, contributing editor, Artforum, Los Angeles; Erin O’Toole, assistant curator, department of photography, SFMOMA; Tina Takemoto, artist and professor, California College of the Arts; Jack von Euw, curator of The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, UC–Berkeley; and Chuck Mobley, curator, San Francisco Camerawork.

Critical Mass Book Award Finalist

Other Photolucida · 2009

Selected

Other Review Santa Fe · 2009

Best Photography of the Year

University PDN Photography Annual · 2008

Best Photography of the Year

Other PDN Photography Annual · 2007

Flash Forward Honorable Mention

Other Magenta Foundation · 2007

Critical Mass Top 50

Other Photolucida · 2006

Best Photography of the Year

Other PDN Photography Annual · 2003

Judge’s Award

Other Julie Saul, Julie Saul Gallery. American Society of Media Photographers–New York · 2003

Benenson Award

University Institute of the Arts, Duke University · 1995

Julie Harper Day Prize in Documentary Studies

University Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University · 1995

Research Award

University Center for International Studies at Duke University · 1992

In the News

Published May 23, 2024

Reuben-Cooke Fellows’ Projects Tell Stories of Social Justice

Published May 14, 2024

Christopher Sims Named to Lead Center for Documentary Studies

Published January 18, 2024

“Tradição do Pelznickel vira case de estudo internacional.”

Published May 23, 2023

It All Connects to Climate

Published April 11, 2023

“Art as Activation and Policy as Action.”

Published February 4, 2022

“Interview with Patrick Stawski and Caitlin Kelly: Witness to Guantanamo Exhibit”

Published September 30, 2021

“‘The Pretend Villages,’ de Chris Sims: los Poblados Falsos que Recrean Aldeas de Irak y Afganistán dentro de los EEUU son Reales.”

Published September 29, 2021

Five New Faculty Join the Sanford School

Published September 23, 2021

Photographer Documents U.S. Military’s Fake Middle East Villages.”

Published September 14, 2021

Pretend Villages, Real Military Training

Published September 14, 2021

“Pretend Villages, Real Military Training.”

Published September 1, 2021

“Inside Military ‘Training Villages.’”

Published June 6, 2021

“Inside the U.S. Military’s Uncanny ‘Theater of War.’”

Published May 18, 2021

“Simular a guerra num Afeganistão e Iraque de faz- de-conta.”

Published April 20, 2021

“Auf einen Tee mit dem Warlord.”

Published March 8, 2021

“’The Pretend Villages’: Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg.”

Published January 1, 2021

“Kehrer Verlag at Photo London 2021.”

Published January 1, 2021

Interview: Christopher Sims.

Published January 1, 2021

“Featured: Christopher Sims.”

Published February 6, 2019

"Local photographer participates in regional project"

Published September 7, 2017

"By and By: Theater of War"

Published August 23, 2017

“These Simulated War-Zone Villages Train U.S. Soldiers for Deployment”

Published July 15, 2014

"Review: On 'Remote Sites of War'"

Published April 14, 2014

"Sims Returns to JRTC, Fort Polk to Update ‘Theater of War’"

Published June 6, 2012

"Actors of War"

Published March 4, 2010

“Christopher Sims’ Hearts and Minds”

Published August 15, 2009

“Exhibits Bring Reality In — And Out — of Focus”

Published May 23, 2009

“Guantanamo"

Published March 12, 2009

“Photographer Christopher Sims Goes Inside Guantanamo Bay”

Published February 13, 2009

“Freed from Horror, ‘Guantanamo’ Lets Imagination Roam”

Published February 12, 2009

“War on Terror: Inside/Out"