About

  • June 17, 2007 – 9:48 pm
Craig Holmes, who has taken all of the images in the Crowded Gallery, is a UK based commercial and editorial photographer who is regularly commissioned to work on a variety of fine art, advertising, corportate and editorial projects - both in the UK and abroad.At the age of 36, Craig has worked in four continents, won two Newspaper Society Awards, produced eight photo books, and exhibited in the UK, the last of which was hosted by the BBC and opened by their Creative Director, Alan Yentob.

Previously represented by galleries in both London and Birmingham, his prints hang in homes and boardrooms throughout the UK, the US, and Europe.

A collection of his black and white photographs are now being made available for sale, at up to 22″x17″ inches, printed on museum quality archival paper, in signed limited editions of 50.  Please visit www.crowded.co.uk to browse and purchase.

Books & Exhibitions

Birmingham: Shaping the City, 2008. Modern architecture of Birmingham. Hardback 214 pages. ISBN 978 1 85946 245 4

A New Birmingham, 2007. A photographic book casting a positive light on the recent development of Birmingham. Hardback 140 pages.

A Taste of Birmingham, Volume III, 2006. Hardback 200 pages. ISBN 0-9543388-5-5.

Fame by Frame, A Visual History of BBC Pebble Mill, 2005. As BBC Birmingham moved from the icon that was ‘Pebble Mill’, Craig documents the building and people that made it one of the best known broadcasting centres in Britain. Hardback 190 pages.

New Years Day Exhibition, March 2005, various locations. Group exhibition of photographs taken by members of the British Press Photographers Association, taken on New Years Day 2005.

Five Thousand Days, Press Photographers in a Changing World, 2004. Contributing images in a collection which details, ‘a unique fifteen year journey through the eyes of the finest image-makers of the period’. Hardback 0715319043.

A Taste of Birmingham, Volume II, 2004. Winner of a 2005 Newspaper Society Award. Hardback 0954338847.

Working Women Exhibition, Sept. 2004. Collection of black and white portraits of women who work in the city of Birmingham, opened by Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director, held in The Mailbox, Birmingham.

A Taste of the Shires, 2003. Hardback, 190 pages.

A Taste of Birmingham, 2002. Winner of Newspaper Society Award. Hardback, ISBN 0954338804.
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