CJ is an award winning photojournalist based for 30 plus years in Boston, and his images have been seen in Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, US Weekly, People, Time, US News & World Report, Life, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, Trends, Smithsonian, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Paris Match, Outside Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines around the world. Twice in recent years, he has had his images selected for Life Magazine's Year in Pictures, a review of news images from the past year of events of the world. His photographs have also received awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association, the oldest photographers association in the United States.

CJ began his photojournalism career working for local papers in Connecticut, and then began to freelance for major publications and wire services, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The USA Today, The Associated Press, Reuters News Pictures and Agence France Presse. For more than two decades at the European Pressphoto Agency, CJ shot photos and video, covering major sporting events including The Masters, multiple Olympic Games, World Cup Soccer tournaments, America's Cup regattas, Super Bowls, World Series and NBA Finals, along with national news events including the United States Presidential Campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Nikki Haley, hurricane disasters in southern United States, and the tragedies at Sandy Hook, the Boston Marathon and Lewiston, Maine. Additionally he has photographed and written stories on longer term projects about PFAS pollution on Maine Dairy Farms, Oyster farming on Prince Edward Island, MotorSport Culture in New Jersey, Broad Leaf Tobacco production, and Cranberry Harvesting in Massachusetts.

CJ graduated from the University of Connecticut's School of Fine Arts where he studied photography and graphic design and spent many long days into the night working alongside school mates in the newsroom of the independent student-run newspaper, The Daily Campus, one of the oldest student papers in the United States.

CJ is available for portraiture, documentary and commissioned photography. His fine art images are available on fine papers printed with archival inks or traditional RA4 process on metallic paper. Traditional format images are available in 6x9, 12x18 or 20x30 inch prints. Square format images are available in 9x9, 12x12 or 20x20 inch prints.

Please send an email to contact@cjgunther.com regarding reproduction rights and uses of images made by CJ Gunther.