Christopher Lee is an outsider artist and photographer living in the northwest United States. He was born in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is a multi-medium artist and designer. His studio, Studio XIII, is in Tumtum, Washington.
He received his first camera in 1978. It was a gift from Tom Nuesca, a family friend, musician and photographer. Lee names Dorothea Lange and Danny Lyon among the photographers he admires. He considers himself a street photographer. His favorite time to shoot is at night.
In 2025 he published the book Monochrome on the 200th Anniversary of Photography Volume I. It is a collection of black and white street and night photographs. The book has no text except his introduction.
