David Corio was born in London, England in 1960. At eighteen he began his professional career, taking photos for New Musical Express, followed by The Face, Time Out and Black Echoes covering a wide range of music and portraiture. After a stint as a music writer at City Limits he worked as a freelance photographer for amongst others, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Q, Theatre Royal, Stratford and Greensleeves Records.

His photographs have been exhibited in The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Photographer’s Gallery and The Special Photographers Gallery in London, The Brownwyn Keenan Gallery and The Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and in Osaka Japan and Hong Kong.

In 1992 David moved to New York. He works for the New York Times, The Times, The Telegraph, Mojo, School Of Visual Arts,

Swedish Institute VP, Heartbeat and Island Records.

A comprehensive collection of David's photographs of black musicians was published in The Black Chord (Universe, 1999, text by Vivien Goldman). Megaliths a 14 year project photographing Britain’s prehistoric stones with text by Lai Ngan Corio was published by Jonathan Cape/Random House in 2003 his work has appeared in many other books.