David Corio photography exhibition in New York

David Corio is one of our regular and superbly talented Caribbean Beat photographers, who we can always turn to when we need a photo of a Caribbean musician for Caribbean Beat.

He has an especially large collection of Caribbean musicians (especially reggae artists), both live performance as well as studio shots.

Starting today (11 March, 2011), David has an exhibition opening at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City.

David Corio was born in London, England, in 1960. He began his professional career in 1978 taking photographs that covered a wide range of music and portraiture.

Peter Tosh. Photo: David Corio

David’s photographs have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Photographer’s Gallery, and the Special Photographers Gallery in London; the Brownwyn Keenan Gallery and the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York; Number One Gallery in Dublin and in Osaka, Japan, and in Hong Kong.


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.

So if you're in New York, make sure to check out David's exhibition!