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David Corio was born in London, England, in 1960. He began his professional career in 1978 taking photographs for New Musical Express, followed by The Face, Time Out, and Black Echoes, covering a wide range of music and portraiture. After a stint as a music writer at City Limits, he worked as a freelance photographer for the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Q, Theatre Royal Stratford, and Greensleeves Records, among others.David has photographs in the National Portrait Gallery, London in their permanent collection and has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I.C.A., The Hayward Gallery, The Photographer’s Gallery, Rock Archive Galleries and the Special Photographers Gallery in London; the Morrison Hotel Gallery, the Brownwyn Keenan Gallery and the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York; the Tropen Museum in Amsterdam, Number One Gallery in Dublin and in Osaka, Japan, Italy and Hong Kong.David has lived and worked in London and New York City, and his work has been published in the New York Times, The Times, the Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Q and Mojo. He has also worked for the School of Visual Arts, the Swedish Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers, Greensleeves Records,VP Records, Heartbeat Records, Universal Music Group, EMI and Island Records.A comprehensive collection of David's photographs of black musicians was published in The Black Chord (Universe, 1999, text by Vivien Goldman). Megaliths, a 14-year project photographing the prehistoric standing stones of England and Wales, with text by Lai Ngan Corio, was published by Jonathan Cape/Random House in 2003. The Couture Accessory (text by Caroline Rennolds Milbank, styling by Lai Ngan Corio) a book of haute couture accessories was published by Abrams in 2002.Specialties: Music, portraits, travel.

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  David Corio Photography

  Sep 1978 - Present - London/New York