Craig Cowling
Craig Cowling is a British fashion, portrait & music photographer whose work has appeared in many magazines around the world. He is considered one of the "pioneers" of the photo-blogging generation, with his "1095 project".
Early life
Born in 1982 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, a small ex-mining town, Craig attended Hall Cross School as a teenager. Craig went on to study photography at the towns art college. It was there where he studied under his tutor, Richard Browning, an ex-assistant to David Bailey (photographer). He later went on to study his degree in Fashion Photography at the London College of Fashion under the tutelage of noted fashion photographer Mark Lebon and Adrian Wilson, while assisting British Fashion photographer and TV personality Perou.
Professional career
After graduating from London College of Fashion, Craig took up his first job at the New York based magazine, Nerve, where he was employed to write articles chronicling his [...] life. The job lasted less than a year, with Craig quitting the post and taking up a job at British lads magazine "Front". Through contacts there, Craig landed a job as staff photographer at Vice Magazine in the UK, where he enjoyed two and a half good years and earning his nickname, which he still uses today "Naughty James"
His highly stylized editorial work has appeared in i-D, Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar and he has collaborated with i-D, Vice Magazine in the UK, Belgium and Germany as well as many other publications such as WAD (France), PIG (Italy), NEON (Germany), Bigshot, BPM (both USA). He has also exhibited in galleries from the Bread and Butter fashion trade fair in Berlin to the Mcloud Gallery in Seattle, USA. He's followed Klaxons and White Lies (band) on their first tour keeping a record, mostly in black-and-white photographs, to capture the raw energy of their gigs and all the usual back stage antics. With large corporate clients such as Coca Cola and Sony already to his name all at the slender age of twenty seven he is one of London's most highly sought after, most up-and-coming stars of the fashion photography scene.