Jessica Craig-Martin

Jessica Craig-Martin
Born1963 (age 62–63)
United States
OccupationPhotographer
FatherMichael Craig-Martin
Websitejessicacraigmartin.com

Jessica Craig-Martin (born 1963) is an American writer and photographer known for her images of high-society events, parties, charity galas, and exclusive social scenes. Her photographs often appear in contexts critiquing the "dark side" of the glamour world.

Career

Craig-Martin has been a photographer of social events since the 1990s. In 1997, she was offered a contract by Anna Wintour.

She frequently contributes photography to major publications like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. Her style subverts traditional society photography by favoring harsh realism, cropped compositions, oblique angles, and avoiding clear facial identification of subjects to highlight themes of desire, disappointment, glamour's underbelly, and the absurdities of wealth and status.

Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in collections including the Whitney Museum (New York), the New Museum (New York), and the Guggenheim Museum (New York).

She is the daughter of the artist Michael Craig-Martin.

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

Publications

Her first monograph, Jessica Craig-Martin: Privilege, features photographs from the world's most financially lubricated events, with essays by Glenn O'Brien and Angus Cook. She has authored a memoir-in-stories titled I Regret I Am Able to Attend: A Life Among Artists (published by Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House), an account of her coming-of-age in the art world of the 1970s and 80s.

References

  1. ↑ "Photographer Jessica Craig-Martin's Raw, Unflinching Look at '90s Society". W Magazine. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  2. ↑ "THE ARCHIVES: Jessica Craig–Martin". Musée Magazine. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  3. ↑ "Photographer Jessica Craig-Martin's Raw, Unflinching Look at '90s Society". W Magazine. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  4. ↑ Craig-Martin, Jessica (2017-10-27). "THE ARCHIVES: Jessica Craig–Martin". Musée Magazine. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  5. ↑ Jacobs, Sarah. "10 stunning photos that show how the 1% parties". Business Insider. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  6. ↑ Holman, Bob (2007-04-01). "Jessica Craig-Martin". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  7. ↑ Adams, Tim (2023-12-31). "The big picture: a wild night out by Jessica Craig Martin". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  8. ↑ "Jessica Craig-Martin". Whitney Museum. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  9. ↑ "Jessica Craig-Martin". Jessica Craig-Martin. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  10. ↑ Craig-Martin, Jessica (2026-11-10). I Regret I Am Able to Attend: A Life Among Artists. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-525-51045-1.
  11. ↑ "Jessica Craig-Martin Oct 14, 2001–Jan 20, 2002 MoMA PS1". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  12. ↑ Caniglia, Julie (1997-11-01). "Jessica Craig-Martin and Lucas Michael". Artforum. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  13. ↑ O'Brien, Glenn (October 14, 2009). Jessica Craig-Martin: Privilege. Images En Manoeuvres. ISBN 978-2849951576.
  14. ↑ I Regret I Am Able to Attend: Jessica Craig-Martin: 9780525510451.