In Summer 2010 Issam Kourbaj, Christ's Artist in Residence, ran the 'Intimate Distances' photography project with Hannah Newton (m. 2009) and Sophie Skarbek (m. 2008) resulting in a collaboration between alumni, students and staff, with twelve literary responses to the images. The images were based upon the Camera Obscura principle with an exterior view of College projected onto an internal space and photographed. These poems and images can now be viewed in the library entrance.