Originally from Ventura, California. Chandler resides in Columbia Missouri as a current MFA candidate at the University of Missouri. He focuses on the close relation to life and feeling in his images. To him, the barrier between personal life and artwork is blurred. Heavily inspired by German expressionism, the Japanese Provoke era of photography, early color photography from artists like Nobuyoshi Araki, and William Eggleston, as well as personal documentary projects of photographers of the likes of Jacob Au Sobol and Peggy Noland. 

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Chandler looks to employ love, lust, humor, chaos, and all things provoking into his imagery.