Craig Morey began his love of photography at a young age. He was inspired by magazine images and used to spend hours clipping images from them and annoying his family by taking tons of pictures on vacation. In 1974, Morey moved to California, where he and a group of other young photographers founded San Francisco Camerawork, the first nonprofit center for photography on the West Coast. Camerawork Gallery was (and continues to be) devoted to showing the newest and most innovative work in contemporary photography. Morey served as Executive Director of SF Camerawork from its founding until 1981. In 1981, Morey left San Francisco Camerawork to pursue a free-lance photography career. His clients since then have included hundreds of magazines, such as Architectural Digest, Newsweek, Penthouse, Cupido, and the Journal of Erotica. While working on assignment for Penthouse, Morey began creating a series of striking black & white nudes which appeared in numerous publications in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. A hardcover monograph of selections from this Penthouse project, Studio Nudes, was published in the fall of 1992. A second book of images, titled Body/Expression/Silence, was released in Japan in 1994, and another Japanese monograph, Linea, was published in 1996. Morey's newest collection, Twentieth Century Studio Nudes, has recently been released. He is very methodical in his work. After selecting a model he actually draws up sketches and goes over the plan with the model before he actually gets to the photography. And sometimes depending on the shoot and the model, the sketches and plan get thrown out the window. Currently Craig Morey lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His bondage photography will be featured in a new documentary, "Mondo Bondo" being released in August 2006. |
