David Corio was born in London, England, in 1960. He began his professional career in 1978 taking photographs for NME, The Face, Time Out, and Black Echoes, covering a wide range of music and portraiture. He also worked for City Limits, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Q, Theatre Royal Stratford, and Greensleeves Records. David’s photographs have been exhibited in London, New York, LA and in Italy, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. David has lived and worked in London and New York City, and his work is published in the New York Times, The Times, the Telegraph, Rolling Stone and Mojo. He has also worked for Greensleeves Records,VP Records, Heartbeat Records, Universal Music Group, EMI and Island Records. A comprehensive collection of David's photographs of black musicians was published in The Black Chord (Universe, 1999). Megaliths, a 14-year project photographing the prehistoric standing stones of England and Wales, with text by Lai Ngan Corio, (Jonathan Cape/Random House 2003).