Craig’s twenties were spent working blue collar jobs in Alaska, Louisiana and Oregon - as a boat skipper, a fisherman, and an oil field roughneck - all the while studying photography at the University of Oregon.
Craig documented his work coworkers as he traversed the country between 1973 and 1981, giving this rare personal glimpse into their working lives, from fishermen, through lumberjacks to oil roughnecks.
The workers their achievements one cannot say are small
But you will not see their names on a memorial wall
And so few to be like them to aspire
Though they are the people we ought to admire
--Francis Duggan
