Bill Curry began carrying a Canon AE-1 camera on his first trip to Europe, and since then has taken photos all over the world, both in front of and behind the camera.  As a fashion model he has worked with photography greats Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Victor Skrebneski, Francesco Scavullo, Aldo Fallai, Arthur Elgort, Pamela Hansen, Barbara Bordnick Steven Meisel, Jean Pagliuso, Patrick DeMarchelier, Barry m McKinley, Ricoh Pullman, Uli Rose, to name but a few.  On location shoots in Morocco, Greece, Borneo, Iceland, Italy, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Tasmania, Peru and Mexico he learned to “see the light” that makes a great photograph.  His belief in the superiority of discovery over invention has molded his style. He never missed an opportunity to stay in a country after a fashion shoot to photograph the local people and their cultural lifestyle.  He became adept at the “quick” photo portrait and developed a photojournalistic approach to photography. 

Having been in the front of the camera subject of editorial photos featured in Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Vogue, Men’s Journal, L’ummo Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Italian Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Glamour magazines, as well as advertising campaigns for Armani, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, camel international, old spice. Eddie Bauer, Country Road, Hickey Freeman, he learned that the technical “lighting” aspect is but one element in a great photograph.  His  working as a film and TV commercial actor for a number of years has helped him understand that artificial lighting need not look uninviting. The natural “look” in his photographs is a result of paying attention to the light at the moment.  He has found that In addition to mastering the many  variables involved in a photo assignment, it is the relationship between the photographer and the subject being photographed  that is the real strength behind great photographs.

His personal work and photo book projects suggest varied and diverse interest in photography. Legacy’s Gift is photo/ commentary collaboration with PhD Michelle McCormick about tribal and secular elders with exceptional life experience and their know ledge of ceremony, rites of passage and lost community. With elders as diverse in their ethnic and racial profile as they are in their opinions they all converge on our loss of common sense knowledge and disregard for the earth and her future generations. Many are in their nineties and their faces reflect the lives they have loved.

Passing by the Sacred Mountain is a collection of four years of portraits, while Bill lived near the sacred “Blue Lake Mountain” of the Tewa Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico. With photos of painters, gypsies, bikers, moonbeams, healers, salty dogs, wild Indians and the devout anti culture, it is a wonderful collection of human diversity.

In the photo essay Road Kill and other Organic Matter; Bill explores the modern societies views of dismissing the woes of the downtrodden in the human realm and the animal kingdom and our consumer obsessed proliferation of trash.

Fear Isn’t a Factor is a stark look into the world of Mixed Martial Arts events such as the Ultimate Fighting Championships, King of the Cage, Martial arts reality super fight.  Having been on the” inside of the game” as a photographer and writer for Grappling magazine, and being ringside at this controversial sport for ten years as well as a Brazilian Ju Jitsu artist himself lends credence to his candid behind the scenes portraits of the fighters and in the ring action shots, they are raw and powerful and a telling story of gamesmanship, athleticism and camaraderie that goes unnoticed in the mainstream press.

Windows of Opportunity are a ten-year photographic view of reflections and the content of store front and personal windows worldwide. They examine our fascination with celebrity and trend and also our religious fixations inter woven with our spending habits.

Having photographed high profile sporting events, Academy award parties, celebrities, private jets, catalogs, corporate brochures, Travel reportage, and hotel presentation pieces, his range of photographic skills has been put to the test.

Bill enjoys the freelance lifestyle, with a new and challenging photo assignment just around the corner. The master photographer Henri Bresson said, “ One has to feel oneself involved in what he frames through the viewfinder. It is putting ones heads, ones eye, and ones heart on the same axis.”  Bill Curry strives to fulfill these words in deed and in his photographic journey.

Bill resides on the nature coast of Florida with his wife and muse, Debra, a makeup artist, and their five-year-old son Ryan.  His oldest son, Kalan, lives in Montana and is an athlete, actor, honor student and super son.