Saira Craig

Saira Craig is originally from Lincoln, England. Although in her younger years she grew up in Montefrío, Spain. During GCSEs she studied Fine art and Art Textiles, this love of art later progressed to photography. She moved to London where she successfully completed a combined BA in Photography and Spanish at the University of Roehampton, London. Her mixed ethnicity and experience growing up in another country has left her with vast respect for other countries and their culture. She has recently created projects around these ideas in her Spanish modules; a blog showing the beautiful Hispanic identity here in London and a creative map and written commentary where she presents that diversity forms are a form of covert racism.

During university she has had the opportunity to touch on most genres of photography, although her final project ‘unmasking the masked’ plays with ideas of archival, documentary work. As well her series Being alone is hard, not being alone is hard, she was particularly interested in the analysis of one’s consciousness, in particular the state of Maladaptive daydreaming, and she approached this by making a series of images of her friend in an altered state of daydreaming. She pushed boundaries of notions of documentary in the sense that it was not documenting the physical aspect of who we are but rather our state of minds.

In her professional career she has been fortunate enough to have a vast amount of freelance photography experience. Saira’s photographs have been published on social media by Wimbledon Book Fest, The Lady Kilas and Barnes Charity Fashion Show. More recently she was hired by Lincoln City Foundation, as their Media Assistant. This role consisted of producing both photographic and videography content ready to be released on all social platforms, as well, she was a core member of the marketing team.