Carl Corey has been interested in photography since he was a kid growing up in Chicago. He has worked as an advertising still photographer and director and cameraman for projects in Chicago and Los Angeles. He retired from the advertising business after twenty-five years and moved back to Wisconsin to focus on his roots, documentary photography.
Carl Corey’s work is exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, as well in numerous private and public collections. He has won more than one hundred photography awards from such groups and publications as the New York Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, Bessies, Addys, and Gold Lions. Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars has won the Midwest Independent Publishers’ Association Crystal Book Award and was a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards, and USA National Best Book Awards. Carl Corey is also the author-photographer of For Love and Money: Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businesses.