Craig Pindell, Fine Art Photographer

All work copyright Craig Pindell, 2025

Craig Pindell Biography

Born in Cheyenne Wyoming, Craig has called Wyoming home for most of his life. His first job, working on his grandfather’s farm, instilled a love for the outdoors and for nature’s beauty. After a short college career, he began a life of travel, first as a pipefitter welder, and later in reliability and planning, a life that enabled him travel and photograph extensively throughout Wyoming, the United States, Canada and Australia. Now retired, Craig continues to travel and make photographs, to print more photos for exhibition and to teach as much as possible.

For Craig, photography began as a hobby in his teenage years and evolved into much more. Thanks to unending support from Katie, his wife of many years, and the support of his family and friends, Craig has been able to pursue his passion for photography for most of his life. His love of the art has led to work as a photo stringer for the Associated Press and Untied Press International. He also worked as a photo curator for the Wyoming State Museum and State Archives, and has been published in many magazines and newspapers. In addition, Craig has taught photography classes for Eastern Wyoming Community College and Laramie County Community College.

Like many photographers, Craig has photographed portraits and weddings to fund his artistic photography. Although photographing trees, rocks, and mountains were his first love, there is a great deal of satisfaction in recording the human element surrounding us.  

Since the horrible events of September 11, 2001, Craig has marked the anniversary of the tragedy by creating a photograph at the exact time the first plane hit the World Trade Center.  The ongoing Never Forget project is intended to make sure the day will always be remembered, at least by one person.