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⚫ | '''Craig Semetko''' (born Craig Joseph William Semetko, July 9, 1961) is an American street photographer and speaker based in Los Angeles.<ref name="vice">{{cite web|first1=Beckett|last1=Mufson|accessdate=2019-01-28|title=The 4 Elements of a Great Candid Photo|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/aenx9k/craig-semetko-candid-photography-elements|date=3 January 2017|publisher=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fr.leica-camera.com/Univers-Leica/Actualit%C3%A9s-Leica/Global/2014/Craig-Semetko-live-in-Wetzlar|title=Craig Semetko live in Wetzlar // 2014 // Global // Actualités Leica // Univers Leica - Leica Camera AG|website=fr.leica-camera.com|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> He is known for the strong sense of humor<ref name="vice"/> and irony that appears in his candid and spontaneous photos of everyday life. He teaches workshops around the world and his photography has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://semetko.com|title=Home|website=Craig Semetko|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> |
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[[File:Craig Semetko in Los Angeles, 2007.png|thumb|Craig Semetko in Los Angeles, 2007.]] |
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⚫ | Craig Semetko (born Craig Joseph William Semetko, July 9, 1961) is an American photographer and speaker based in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fr.leica-camera.com/Univers-Leica/Actualit%C3%A9s-Leica/Global/2014/Craig-Semetko-live-in-Wetzlar|title=Craig Semetko live in Wetzlar // 2014 // Global // |
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His series titled ''Unposed'' has been published in two books.<ref name="vice"/><ref name="indianexpress">{{cite news|accessdate=2019-01-28|title=India Calling: Photographer Craig Semetko’s exhibition captures the humour and irony on Indian streets|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/india-calling-photographer-craig-semetkos-exhibition-captures-the-humour-and-irony-on-indian-streets/|date=1 June 2017|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Semetko was born near Detroit, Michigan and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Speech from [[Northwestern University]] in Evanston, IL. He holds a masters degree in consciousness studies from the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. At |
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⚫ | Semetko was inspired by the work of Magnum photographers [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]] and [[Elliott Erwitt]], saying, |
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⚫ | Semetko was born near Detroit, Michigan and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Speech from [[Northwestern University]] in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]], IL. He holds a masters degree in consciousness studies from the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. At 16 he was a page in the United States House of Representatives. For much of his adult life Semetko was a professional comedic actor and writer,<ref name="indianexpress"/> and he still performs occasionally. In 2000, he had a corporate performing job<ref name="indianexpress"/> that took him to England, Ireland, Japan and China. He purchased his first camera for the trip<ref name="indianexpress"/> and after seeing a photo he took outside Shanghai of two women in a dugout canoe it occurred to him that he could use photography as a different medium to tell stories. He has stated he views his photography as an extension of his acting and writing.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pfmagazine.com/2015/magazine/the-charm-of-serendipity-a-conversation-with-craig-semetko/|title=The Charm of Serendipity: A Conversation with Craig Semetko|last=Lassiter|first=Ken|date=May 15, 2015|work=Photographer’s Forum Magazine|access-date=|pages=30–38}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Semetko was inspired by the work of [[Magnum Photos]] photographers [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]]<ref name="indianexpress"/> and [[Elliott Erwitt]], saying, "In a perfect world, I would try to get the emotion from an Erwitt image and the composition of a Cartier-Bresson photograph."<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=Ways of Seeing: How to be a better photographer (for the instagram generation)|last=Sethi|first=Shikha|date=January 2016|work=[[GQ (Indian edition)|GQ India]]|access-date=|pages=54–55}}</ref> |
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=== '''UNPOSED''' === |
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Semetko’s first book, UNPOSED, was published by teNeuse in 2010 and contained photographs taken from 2000-2010. Elliott Erwitt wrote the foreword for the book, excerpted below: <blockquote>"Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko's book...In my book he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.”</blockquote>In 2014 Semetko was selected as one of ten photographers to be a part of [[Leica Camera|Leica]] Camera’s “10x10” exhibition. This inaugural show celebrated Leica’s 100 year anniversary at their new headquarters and museum in Wetzlar, Germany. Leica paired each photographer with their “artistic fathers,” coupling Semetko with Elliott Erwitt.<ref name=":0" /> In an article that year celebrating the history of Leica cameras, Esquire magazine called Semetko “a noble torchbearer” to the long legacy of professional photographers using Leicas, beginning with Cartier-Bresson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=Dot Commerce. The Cult of Leica|last=Garfield|first=Simon|date=Winter 2014|work=Esquire, The Big Black Book Issue 4, autumn/winter 2014 UK edition|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Semetko's first book, ''Unposed,'' was published by [[teNeues]] in 2010 and contained photographs taken from 2000 to 2010. Elliott Erwitt wrote the foreword for the book, excerpted below: |
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UNPOSED (teNeuse, 2009) <nowiki>ISBN 978-3-8327-9420-0</nowiki><ref name=":0" /> |
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<blockquote>Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko's book...In my book he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.</blockquote> |
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In 2014 Semetko was selected as one of ten photographers to be a part of [[Leica Camera|Leica]]'s ''10×10'' exhibition.<ref name="ghosh">{{cite news|accessdate=2019-01-28|title=Looking for grey in Craig Semetko's India Unposed collection|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/looking-for-grey-in-craig-semetko-s-india-unposed-collection/story-UvGzNYliILqouOjKe7TrOM.html|date=4 April 2015|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref> This inaugural show celebrated Leica's 100 year anniversary at their new headquarters and museum in Wetzlar, Germany. Leica paired each photographer with their "artistic father", coupling Semetko with Erwitt.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="ghosh"/> In an article that year celebrating the history of Leica cameras, ''Esquire'' magazine called Semetko "a noble torchbearer" to the long legacy of professional photographers using Leicas, beginning with Cartier-Bresson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/news/a7135/leica-camera-100-years-big-black-book/|title=Dot Commerce. The Cult of Leica|last=Garfield|first=Simon|date=Winter 2014|work=Esquire, The Big Black Book Issue 4, autumn/winter 2014 UK edition|access-date=28 January 2019}}</ref> |
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== Books == |
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=== '''Notable Photographs''' === |
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===Books by Semetko=== |
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San Francisco, California, 2005—A man stands at a urinal with photographs of a laughing Marilyn Monroe looking down on him.<ref name=":0" /> |
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*''Unposed'' ([[teNeues]], 2009) {{ISBN|978-3-8327-9420-0}}. With a foreword by Elliott Erwitt. |
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Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 2012—The Jet Star Roller Coaster is washed out to sea from Hurricane Sandy.<ref name=":0" /> |
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*''10 x 10: Dominic Nahr, Julia Baier, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Craig Semetko, Kirill Golovchenko, Amedeo M. Turello, Alec Soth, Jing Huang, Thomas Ruff, Saga Sig.'' Volume 1 of Leica Fotografie International. LFI Photographie, 2014. {{OCLC|935624158}}. |
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Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010—Two couples and two single men sit on benches next to Hoàn Kiếm Lake.<ref name=":0" /> |
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===Solo exhibitions=== |
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*''Street Photography: From Classic to Contemporary—Henri Cartier-Bresson and Craig Semetko'' (Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, 2008)<ref name="cv2013">Lisa Morgan, "[http://coachellavalleyweekly.com/craig-semetko/ Craig Semetko: World Renowned Photographer of the Absurd and the Ironic Showing at the AMFM Festival, June 13–16th, in Cathedral City]", ''Coachella Valley Weekly'', May 29, 2013. Retrieved 2019-01-28.</ref> |
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*''Craig Semetko: Street Photography'' (Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, 2009)<ref name="leica-2010">"[https://www.leica-camera.blog/2010/10/29/craig-semetko-capturing-the-authentic-human-experience-part-1/ Craig Semetko: Capturing the Authentic Human Experience, Part 1]", Leica Blog, October 29, 2010. Retrieved January 2019-01-29.</ref> |
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*''Semetko: Unposed'' (Leica Store, Washington, D.C., 2012). A selection from ''Unposed'' as well as ''E Pluribus Unum.''<ref>"[https://www.leica-camera.blog/2012/10/17/craig-semetko-america-e-pluribus-unum/ Craig Semetko: America: E Pluribus Unum]", Leica Blog, October 17, 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-29.</ref> |
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*AMFM Festival (Cathedral City, CA, 2013)<ref name="cv2013" /> |
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*''America: E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)'' (Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, 2013)<ref>{{cite web|first1=Ted |last1=Holteen|date=23 May 2013|accessdate=2019-01-28|title=More than words can say|url=https://durangoherald.com/articles/56023|website=[[The Durango Herald]]}}</ref> |
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*''Craig Semetko—Unposed and Unseen'' (Leica Gallery Los Angeles, 2014)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-01-29|title=Craig Semetko|url=https://leicagalleryla.com/gallery-view/craig-semetko/|website=Leica Gallery Los Angeles}}</ref> |
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*''India Unposed'' (with Torsten Andreas Hoffmann, ''India on the move''; Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, 2014)<ref>"[https://www.leicastore-frankfurt.de/en/cms4shop/News/Exhibitions/Craig-Semetko---India-Unposed---Torsten-Andreas-Hoffmann---India-on-the-move.html Craig Semetko – India Unposed & Torsten Andreas Hoffmann – India on the move]", Leica Galerie Frankfurt. Retrieved 2019-01-28.</ref> |
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*''Unposed: India and elsewhere'' (Leica Gallery Singapore, 2015)<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20150329001549/http://www.leica-store.sg/gallery-opening-book-signing-session-craig-semetko/ Gallery Opening and Book Signing Session with Craig Semetko]", Leica Store Singapore, as archived by the Wayback Machine on March 29, 2015.</ref> |
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*''India Unposed'' (Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2015)<ref name="ghosh"/><ref name="indianexpress"/><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-01-28|title=Craig Semetko|url=http://www.vadehraart.com/craig-semetko-india-unposed/|website=Vadehra Art Gallery}}</ref> |
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*''Funny Business'' (Leica GalleryNuremberg, 2017–2018)<ref>"[http://www.leica-store-nuernberg.de/Leica-Gallery-Nuernberg/Planned-Exhibitions/Craig-Semetko-Funny-Business Craig Semetko – Funny Business]", Leica Store Nürnberg. Retrieved 2019-01-28.</ref> |
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*''Craig Semetko: Funny Business'' (Street Photo Milano, 2018)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-01-29|title=Exhibitions|url=https://www.streetphotomilano.org/exhibitions/|website=Street Photo Milano}}</ref> |
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Varanasi, India, 2013—A dog stands on a wall with an extended poem written on it entitled, “Ask Yourself Who Am I?”<ref name=":0" /> |
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*''10×10'' (Leica Gallery Wetzlar, 2014; with Dominic Nahr, Julia Baier, [[Evgenia Arbugaeva]], Kirill Golovchenko, Amadeo M. Turello, [[Alec Soth]], Jing Huang, [[Thomas Ruff]], and Saga Sig)<ref>"[https://www.leica-camera.blog/2014/08/22/craig-semetko-inside-india-unposed/ Craig Semetko: Inside ''India Unposed'']", Leica Blog, August 22, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.</ref><ref>"[https://www.leica-camera.blog/2014/05/26/leica-gallery-wetzlar-inaugural-10-x-10-exhibition/ Leica Gallery Wetzlar Inaugural 10 x 10 Exhibition]", Leica Blog, June 26, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.</ref><ref>"[https://lfi-online.de/ceemes/en/shop/10x10-1000834.html 10×10]", Leica Fotografie International, June 24, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.</ref> |
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Mahabalipuram, India, 2013—A man sleeps under a huge boulder known as “Krishna’s Butterball.”<ref name=":0" /> |
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Pushkar, India—2013—A street portrait of a man wearing a sweatshirt that says, “Women Are Such Wonderful Creatures.”<ref name=":0" /> |
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Varanasi, India—2013—Two men row a boat at night on the Ganges river.<ref name=":0" /> |
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"Craig Semetko: Funny Business” (Street Photo Milano, 2018) |
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“Still Unposed” (Leica Gallery Bangkok, 2018) |
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“Funny Business” (Leica Galerie Nuremberg, 2017) |
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“India Unposed” (Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2015) |
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“Craig Semetko—Unposed and Unseen” (Leica Gallery Los Angeles, 2014) |
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“America: E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)" (Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, 2013) |
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Craig Semetko (born Craig Joseph William Semetko, July 9, 1961) is an American street photographer and speaker based in Los Angeles.[1][2] He is known for the strong sense of humor[1] and irony that appears in his candid and spontaneous photos of everyday life. He teaches workshops around the world and his photography has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia.[3]
His series titled Unposed has been published in two books.[1][4]
Life and work
Semetko was born near Detroit, Michigan and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Speech from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He holds a masters degree in consciousness studies from the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. At 16 he was a page in the United States House of Representatives. For much of his adult life Semetko was a professional comedic actor and writer,[4] and he still performs occasionally. In 2000, he had a corporate performing job[4] that took him to England, Ireland, Japan and China. He purchased his first camera for the trip[4] and after seeing a photo he took outside Shanghai of two women in a dugout canoe it occurred to him that he could use photography as a different medium to tell stories. He has stated he views his photography as an extension of his acting and writing.[3][5]
Semetko was inspired by the work of Magnum Photos photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson[4] and Elliott Erwitt, saying, "In a perfect world, I would try to get the emotion from an Erwitt image and the composition of a Cartier-Bresson photograph."[6]
Unposed
Semetko's first book, Unposed, was published by teNeues in 2010 and contained photographs taken from 2000 to 2010. Elliott Erwitt wrote the foreword for the book, excerpted below:
Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko's book...In my book he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.
In 2014 Semetko was selected as one of ten photographers to be a part of Leica's 10×10 exhibition.[7] This inaugural show celebrated Leica's 100 year anniversary at their new headquarters and museum in Wetzlar, Germany. Leica paired each photographer with their "artistic father", coupling Semetko with Erwitt.[3][7] In an article that year celebrating the history of Leica cameras, Esquire magazine called Semetko "a noble torchbearer" to the long legacy of professional photographers using Leicas, beginning with Cartier-Bresson.[8]
Books
Books by Semetko
- Unposed (teNeues, 2009) ISBN 978-3-8327-9420-0. With a foreword by Elliott Erwitt.
- India Unposed (Street View, 2014) ISBN 978-0-9916065-0-4
Books with contributions by Semetko
- 10 x 10: Dominic Nahr, Julia Baier, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Craig Semetko, Kirill Golovchenko, Amedeo M. Turello, Alec Soth, Jing Huang, Thomas Ruff, Saga Sig. Volume 1 of Leica Fotografie International. LFI Photographie, 2014. OCLC 935624158.
- Both Sides of Sunset—Photographing Los Angeles (Metropolis, 2015) ISBN 9781938922732
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Street Photography: From Classic to Contemporary—Henri Cartier-Bresson and Craig Semetko (Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, 2008)[9]
- Craig Semetko: Street Photography (Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, 2009)[10]
- Craig Semetko: Street Life (Leica Gallery, Salzburg, 2010)[10]
- Craig Semetko: Unposed (Leica Gallery, New York City, 2011)
- Semetko: Unposed (Leica Store, Washington, D.C., 2012). A selection from Unposed as well as E Pluribus Unum.[11]
- AMFM Festival (Cathedral City, CA, 2013)[9]
- America: E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One) (Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, 2013)[12]
- Craig Semetko—Unposed and Unseen (Leica Gallery Los Angeles, 2014)[13]
- India Unposed (with Torsten Andreas Hoffmann, India on the move; Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, 2014)[14]
- Unposed: India and elsewhere (Leica Gallery Singapore, 2015)[15]
- India Unposed (Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2015)[7][4][16]
- Funny Business (Leica GalleryNuremberg, 2017–2018)[17]
- Craig Semetko: Funny Business (Street Photo Milano, 2018)[18]
Group exhibitions
- 10×10 (Leica Gallery Wetzlar, 2014; with Dominic Nahr, Julia Baier, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Kirill Golovchenko, Amadeo M. Turello, Alec Soth, Jing Huang, Thomas Ruff, and Saga Sig)[19][20][21]
Videos
- Craig Semetko: Portrait (uberartists, 2010)
- How to use a Leica M Rangefinder: Craig Semetko (Leica Camera, 2014)
- Craig Semetko: The Photographer’s Diet (Cooperative of Photography, 2017)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Mufson, Beckett (3 January 2017). "The 4 Elements of a Great Candid Photo". Vice. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Craig Semetko live in Wetzlar // 2014 // Global // Actualités Leica // Univers Leica - Leica Camera AG". fr.leica-camera.com. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ a b c "Home". Craig Semetko. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ a b c d e f "India Calling: Photographer Craig Semetko's exhibition captures the humour and irony on Indian streets". The Indian Express. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ Lassiter, Ken (May 15, 2015). "The Charm of Serendipity: A Conversation with Craig Semetko". Photographer’s Forum Magazine. pp. 30–38.
- ^ Sethi, Shikha (January 2016). "Ways of Seeing: How to be a better photographer (for the instagram generation)". GQ India. pp. 54–55.
- ^ a b c "Looking for grey in Craig Semetko's India Unposed collection". Hindustan Times. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ Garfield, Simon (Winter 2014). "Dot Commerce. The Cult of Leica". Esquire, The Big Black Book Issue 4, autumn/winter 2014 UK edition. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ a b Lisa Morgan, "Craig Semetko: World Renowned Photographer of the Absurd and the Ironic Showing at the AMFM Festival, June 13–16th, in Cathedral City", Coachella Valley Weekly, May 29, 2013. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ a b "Craig Semetko: Capturing the Authentic Human Experience, Part 1", Leica Blog, October 29, 2010. Retrieved January 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Craig Semetko: America: E Pluribus Unum", Leica Blog, October 17, 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ Holteen, Ted (23 May 2013). "More than words can say". The Durango Herald. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Craig Semetko". Leica Gallery Los Angeles. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Craig Semetko – India Unposed & Torsten Andreas Hoffmann – India on the move", Leica Galerie Frankfurt. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Gallery Opening and Book Signing Session with Craig Semetko", Leica Store Singapore, as archived by the Wayback Machine on March 29, 2015.
- ^ "Craig Semetko". Vadehra Art Gallery. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Craig Semetko – Funny Business", Leica Store Nürnberg. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Exhibitions". Street Photo Milano. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Craig Semetko: Inside India Unposed", Leica Blog, August 22, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Leica Gallery Wetzlar Inaugural 10 x 10 Exhibition", Leica Blog, June 26, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "10×10", Leica Fotografie International, June 24, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-29.