Chris Heim attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and has made a career in commercial and editorial photography. He is based in Brooklyn, and is available for editorial and commercial work internationally. His clients include Graza, Bulleit Bourbon, Vimeo, Book of the Month and Mattel. His editorial and portrait work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Fader, and The Sunday Times.

He had three solo fine art shows in 2024 — his landscape work and his portraits from the Angola Prison Rodeo.