Craig Morey was born in 1952 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in the Midwestern U.S. He attended Indiana University and studied with the noted Bauhaus artist, Henry Holmes Smith. 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 US 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.During the same period, Morey's personal work with abstract and whimsical black & white nudes garnered numerous exhibitions and awards, including a Special Jury Prize at the International Triennial of Photography in Friebourg, Switzerland, and First Prize at the California State Exposition. He was also named one of five worldwide "Discoveries" by the editors of Time-Life' Books.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, San Francisco Focus, California Magazine, Interview, Newsweek, Penthouse, Playboy, Cupido, and the Journal of Erotica. He has also worked for corporate clients, including Apple Computer, The Gap, Bechtel Corp., Levi Strauss, Avon, Neutrogena and Wells Fargo Bank.Beginning in 1988, 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 by Korinsha Press of Kyoto, in 1996. Morey's most recent collection, Twentieth Century Studio Nudes, was released in 2001, in German, French and English by Glaspalast Edition of Augsburg Germany.A great deal of Morey's work in the late 90's moved toward a very stylized and iconic bondage theme, and his work from that period is often included in major publications of fetish and rope photo artistry. The legendary "fetish diva" and rigger, Midori, chose Morey to photograph her first book, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, and they have continued to collaborate on various projects, including a documentary film by noted director Tony Cane-Honeysett, entitled Mondo Bondo, released in 2007.Morey's fine art prints of his black & white work are sought by art collectors in the US and Europe, and his photographs are often included in major collections of erotica and fine art nude photography published in print or on the web. At present his monographs from the 90s are out of print, and only available from sources such as Amazon, Ebay, or from the photographer himself. Craig Morey is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but also travels extensively to Europe and the UK. For further information, contact by email: chm@moreystudio.com, or http://www.moreystudio.com