Christopher "CJ" Skelly is a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. He is a United States Marine Corps veteran who served for 4 years as an infantry Section leader of a combined anti-armor team. While originally from South Florida, he and his wife now split their time between North Carolina and New York City.
CJ has a passion for connecting with people from diverse backgrounds. At a young age, he discovered photography as the medium through which he could best express this passion. This led him to spend summers doing aid work in Africa, Peru, and the Caribbean. Since leaving the military, his focus has been on humanitarian issues in Eastern Europe and long-form projects exploring traditional laborers around the world. When he isn't traveling abroad, he wanders the streets of New York or the countryside of North Carolina, connecting to people via street or documentary photography
He has found that the art of storytelling can connect an ever-fractured world, and that is his goal: to show and tell the truth, the truth that we are all humans fighting for the same right to live, love, and be seen. His goal is simple.
To document the world as it is.