Eric Curry was born in Los Angeles, vintage 1956. He was raised on sugary breakfast cereals, and Saturday morning cartoons, with healthy doses of "Gilligan's Island" reruns thrown in for good measure. Graduating the public schools system with a solid "C" grade point average, he was clearly destined for greatness, or at least a career in the visual arts.
Continuing on, and completing the curriculum from Art Center College of design in 1980 with a BA in photography, he then spent the next 12 years living and running his advertising photography studio out of Denmark.
Returning to America in 1992, Eric began applying the lessons of lighting discipline, composition and studio special effects / still life, to the world of industrial location photography.
Coming full circle, it seems appropriate that Eric (through this series of art / documentary images) is now the one making his own visual statement of who and where we are as a nation. Not at all art for the masses, but as he refers to it, Hyper-photographic industrial art that everybody can enjoy looking at.
Having worked in secret on the series American Pride And Passion for two years before going public, Eric has already had two one-man museum shows of his work. Both museum shows were highly acclaimed as innovative and inspirational works of art.
In addition to being a successful industrial photographer, Eric Curry is an inspirational speaker to groups of photography enthusiasts and has been published in Air and Space Magazine, and is also featured on Canon Camera's web site as a source for creativity and innovation.