Who is Chris Bray?
Chris grew up sailing around the world then leading world-first expeditions across the arctic before becoming an award-winning Australian Geographic photographer, Lowepro ambassador and Canon’s Australian ambassador for five years. Chris’s work has appeared in National Geographic and Discovery Channel along with Australian Geographic, TIME Magazine etc. He’s also an accomplished writer, with feature articles published around the world and even a successful book '
The 1000 Hour Day' (now an award-winning documentary 'The Crossing'), sits on the advisory committee for
The Australian Geographic Society and is founder and CEO of
Conservation United, crowd-funding the world’s critical conservation projects. Chris is also an International Fellow of '
The Explorers Club' and has been chairman of their Australia and New Zealand chapter.
Chris is also a keen high-latitude sailors, sailing the first ever junk-rig boat through the Northwest Passage over the arctic with his then wife Jess, on their little 29-foot wooden sailboat '
Teleport'. Australian Geographic Society's 'Young Adventurer of the Year' in 2004 for a Tasmanian wilderness hike, Chris has also been awarded their 'Spirit of Adventure' medal in 2009.
Chris still leads many of our tours and his passion for wildlife, photography and wild places continues to drive our growth.
Read more about our whole Chris Bray Photography team on our '
About' page.