About
Craig Holmes, owner of Metro Photographic, a business with four distinct brands:
Commercial & Editorial Photography: www.craigholmes.com
Stock library of Birmingham images: www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk
Stock Photography Archive: www.craigholmesarchive.com
Gallery of Photographic Prints for sale: www.crowded.co.uk
Craig Holmes is an award winning professional photographer with experience in both commercial and editorial photography. He undertakes commissions that range from fashion and tourism, to commercial features and portraits.
Clients include the likes of Trinity Mirror Magazines, Selfridges, the BBC, ITV, British Airways, Barkers Advertising, Which?, The Telegraph, Goodyear, Virgin, the NHS, and many other magazines, advertising and marketing organisations.
Clients also include eleven of the winners and finalists in the recent Midlands IPR Pride Awards - including a finalist in the Best Use of Photography category.
He has exhibited a collection of recent portraits and photographed seven books in the last five years.
Photographs are also supplied through various stock libraries, most notably
Images of Birmingham.co.uk, as well as being represented internationally by
Alamy.com. His personal archive of several thousand images can be licensed directly from
craigholmesarchive.com.
Presently, he is working with the Royal Institute of British Architects, documenting architecture in the Birmingham area for a forthcoming book. A new book on food is also due soon.
Photographic coverage is provided for the majority of the Midlands, including Shropshire.
Craig is a full Member of the British Press Photographers Association.
Books & Exhibitions
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. More restaurants and food from the city. 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. Restaurants of the Midlands. Hardback, 190 pages.
A Taste of Birmingham, 2002. The new restaurants of a new Birmingham. Winner of Newspaper Society Award. Hardback, ISBN 0954338804.
