Works
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Sometimes a Cigar (Is Just a Cigar), 2023
    Sometimes a Cigar (Is Just a Cigar), 2023
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, All that Glitters, 2017
    All that Glitters, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Cold Snap, 2017
    Cold Snap, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Coming and Going, 2017
    Coming and Going, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Equality of Outcome, 2017
    Equality of Outcome, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Safe Champagne, 2017
    Safe Champagne, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Standard Oil / Freedom Series 3B, 2017
    Standard Oil / Freedom Series 3B, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Warrior, 2017
    Warrior, 2017
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Sharon Stone’s Porsche, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 2008, 2010
    Sharon Stone’s Porsche, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 2008, 2010
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Cougar Friends, 2008
    Cougar Friends, 2008
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Naomi Campbell Text (All Your Dreams Will Come True), 2008
    Naomi Campbell Text (All Your Dreams Will Come True), 2008
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Smiling Salmon, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 2008
    Smiling Salmon, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 2008
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, American Summer, 2007
    American Summer, 2007
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Digits, 2007
    Digits, 2007
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Real Wasps, Wrong Party, 2007
    Real Wasps, Wrong Party, 2007
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Southampton Hospital Benefit Gala (The Answer Is White), 2007
    Southampton Hospital Benefit Gala (The Answer Is White), 2007
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, The General, 2007
    The General, 2007
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Air Kiss (Cancer Benefit, Southampton), 2006
    Air Kiss (Cancer Benefit, Southampton), 2006
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Parrish Museum Benefit, Southampton, 2001
    Parrish Museum Benefit, Southampton, 2001
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Golden Showers, 2000
    Golden Showers, 2000
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Harry Cipriani, Valentines Day, New York, 2000
    Harry Cipriani, Valentines Day, New York, 2000
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Fran Waiting, 1999
    Fran Waiting, 1999
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, If You Knew Suzy, 1999
    If You Knew Suzy, 1999
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Oysters, Caviar On Snow: New Years Eve, Southampton, 1999
    Oysters, Caviar On Snow: New Years Eve, Southampton, 1999
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Rita Hayworth Alzheimers Benefit, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 1999
    Rita Hayworth Alzheimers Benefit, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 1999
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, No Money, New Money, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 1997
    No Money, New Money, Amfar Benefit, Cannes, 1997
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Planet Hollywood, Cannes, 1997
    Planet Hollywood, Cannes, 1997
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, US Open, New York, August 1997, 1997
    US Open, New York, August 1997, 1997
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, The Grope, 1996
    The Grope, 1996
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Let's Party
    Let's Party
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Lullaby of Broadway
    Lullaby of Broadway
  • Jessica Craig-Martin, Untitled (Sharon Stone)
    Untitled (Sharon Stone)
Biography

As an event photographer for publications like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue, Jessica Craig-Martin has covered some of the world’s most extravagant parties but she has done well to carve out her own style. 

 

Craig-Martin’s intentionally framed and obliquely angled photographs work to obscure many of her subject’s faces. In this way, her practice expertly subverts the very genre she occupies; her photographs do not romanticize, in fact they work hard to reveal, not only what the subjects don’t see, but what they probably don’t want shown. As the artifice cracks open, Craig-Martin allows her viewer a unique behind the scenes insight into the glittery imperfections of high society parties.

 

Amidst the glitz and the glamor, Craig-Martin focuses on sequins, toothy smiles and frown lines to offer a nuanced commentary about society’s obsession with appearance and image. She says, ”The photographs occur in the place between desire and disappointment. Perhaps this highlights a slightly surreal or isolated quality which I do feel when I am in these situations. I often automatically crop out eyes. They tell too much. I am not interested in the identity of individuals or in celebrities or in lampooning anyone. I see the guests as framed within a larger cultural phenomenon, in which I am also complicit as its documentarian. The on-camera flash declares my presence. I am part of the problem.”

 

Craig-Martin has exhibited her work widely and her work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum, New York, and The Guggenheim Museum, New York, among other public and private collections.  Craig-Martin lives in New York and works wherever the party is. She is currently working on a book of anecdotes drawn from her adventures in the field and other observations on modern life.

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