Jock Sturges is a fine art photographer who has recently moved to Seattle, Washington. Best known for his nudes and extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities, Ireland and on French naturist beaches, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both  photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. Represented by 25 galleries in nine countries, Mr. Sturges’ work is also to be found in the collection of many of the world’s museums including The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and The Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art in Germany. His published works include “Jock Sturges” Scalo, Zurich, 1996, published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and another Scalo monograph entitled “Jock Sturges – New Work 1996 – 2000” Published in October, 2000. Other titles to his name include: “The Last Day of Summer”, Aperture, NY, 1992, “Radiant Identities”, Aperture, NY 1994, “Notes” Aperture, NY, 2005 and “Evolutions of Grace” GAKKEN, Tokyo, 1994. He has a new color monograph in preparation with Scalo (not yet titled)  scheduled for release in Spring of 2006.

Most recently Mr. Sturges has begun working in the world of high fashion with publications such as L’Uomo Vogue, Japan Vogue, Russian Vogue, French Vogue Rebel, POP, Arena Homme Plus, etc. The fashion work is accomplished with the same large format materials with which his fine art work is produced.

Mr. Sturges travels to photograph, lecture and teach throughout the world but is reliably to be found working on the beaches of France almost any late summer afternoon.