Chris Marquardt, owner of media production company Top Floor Productions, has been in photography for 22 years, with his main focus on digital photography since 1999. He is the host and producer of some of the world’s most renowned shows on photography with his flagship show being Tips from the Top Floor. This show received the PodcastAward in the Education category in 2005 and 2006 and it is also part of 2007 “Best of iTunes”. His photography show Happy Shooting which he produces together with Boris Nienke, is among the most popular podcasts in Germany. In 2006 he kicked off the Photocast Network together with John Arnold of Photowalkthrough fame. This network now includes over 15 photography-related audio and video shows from all over the world and in all sorts of languages, including English, Spanish, German and French. Chris also has a regular appearance being the photography expert on Leo Laporte’s US-wide syndicated “Tech Guy” radio show, which is broadcast via XM Satellite radio and via many terrestrial frequencies and can be heard by millions of people every weekend. He took over the entire TWiT Live studio for a day in 2009 to invite photographers for Photo Day.
Chris holds photography workshops across Europe and in the United States in both, English and German. He owns a photo and video production studio in Tübingen, Germany.
Chris lives in the historic medieval city of Tübingen in southern Germany.
You can find out more about Chris at chrismarquardt.com