Christian Patterson (born 1972)[1] is an American photographer known for his Sound Affects and Redheaded Peckerwood series which have received solo exhibitions and been published as books.

Also in 2005, Patterson began working on his second project, Redheaded Peckerwood, which is loosely inspired by the late 1950s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate across Nebraska.

Photographs are the heart of this work, but they are complemented and informed by documents and objects[vague] that belonged to the killers and their victims.

Like Redheaded Peckerwood, this new work mixes large-format colour landscapes, black-and-white snapshots, appropriated and manipulated archival images, and studio still lifes.

Gong Co (2024) is about a closed Chinese grocery store in the Mississippi Delta whose shelves remained stocked with decades-old products.