Craig Alan Huber is a self-taught photographic artist, having begun with photography around the age of 8 with a borrowed camera from his father. While all the other kids were making pictures using new color films from Kodak, he was out with black and white film discovering patterns and textures. Removing the dimension of color and working with shades of grey, textures, and forms/shapes presents a unique challenge and offers new possibilities for him to this day.
For over two decades now he has worked primarily with large format view cameras ranging from 4x5 to 11x14. A view camera affords him the ultimate in composition flexibility, and obliges a methodical working process that resonates well with the images that he is compelled to make. Working in his traditional darkroom with wonderfully large negatives, he hand-crafts prints in gelatin silver or platinum/palladium, depending on the aesthetic best suiting each image.
His work is in permanent collections including the Vatican Library, the Huntington Library, the National Steinbeck Center, Carmel Mission Foundation, Stanford University Special Collections, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, the Basilica of Saint Mary, Mission San Antonio de Padua, the Museo de Fray Junípero Serra in Majorca, Spain; and in private collections throughout the US, Mexico, Europe, and Australia.