Christopher Wray-McCann was born in Detroit and attended high school at The Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan. It was there at the age of 16 that he began studying photography. After graduating, he went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to continue studying photography, majoring in photojournalism. In the early years of his career, Christopher did a great deal of work within the music industry photographing many album covers, making music videos, and spending months at a time imbedded with numerous bands photographing their lives as they toured the world. At the same time, the commercial aspect of his practice continued to grow in the realm of photojournalism for magazines such as Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Popular Mechanics, Esquire and GQ. As well as working for magazines, Christopher shoots commercial advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. A brief list is as follows:

Apple | AT&T | Budweiser | Caterpillar | Ford | JetBlue | Levi’s | Marlboro | Miller I Nokia | Oakley | Rayban | Seagram’s | Sony

Christopher has done a number of pro-bono campaigns, including one for Doctor's Without Borders. Christopher has won several awards for his advertising work including an Addy in 2002. A collection of his rock and roll photographs titled “Midnight Miles” was published by Simon and Schuster in
2006.

Presently Christopher lives in Hollywood, CA.