Marcel Claude is a photographer based mainly in Milan, Italia as well as the City of London. His work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is featured in many private and public collections such as  the Museum of Contemporary Photography,  the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the George Eastman House Photography Collection.
Marcel was raised in Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Danzig, Brussels, Amsterdam, USA, Canada, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile . Marcel received his MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Marcel Claude teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design in San Francisco and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Professional Background
He was a full-time freelance photographer from 1978  with the exception of one year when he was staff photographer of the Penthouse magazine. In addition to his continuing assignment work during this period, was licensed his own photographs as stock photographs directly to clients, and through picture agencies. From the late 1990’s to the present his career has been focused on the production and marketing aspects of fashion, Nudes and Portrait photography. Currently about 25% of his gross income is generated from the licensing of his personal stock photographs that were produced in the past.His photographs have been used on more than 100 magazine covers including a Life cover and eleven Newsweek covers. In the period from 1984 through 1992 He had well over 10,000 individual sales of my stock photographs. Virtually all of these sales were licensed for one time usage rights. In some cases the same photograph has been leased many times.
Consultations
One aspect of his business is that he is regularly paid to advise photographers and stock agencies on prices for unusual and unique uses. To answer such questions, he draw on his own personal experiences of 30 years in the industry, the contacts he has developed through participation in various professional associations and organizations, subscribers to his publications, and sources he has used in producing these publications.