Greg Blue has worked in Vancouver as a commercial photographer and art director for over 15 years. Originally starting in the fashion photography field, he soon found that he preferred a more methodical approach to photography and eventually changed to still life and food photography for editorial and advertising work. The addition of art directing to his career came about from studying print production techniques in order to better meet the photographic needs of ad agencies and design firms. During this time, Greg developed a love for typography, and after studying under some of the better designers in the business, proceeded to take on freelance design work.

After working with still life and food for over ten years, Greg started to feel that his photographic work had stopped progressing and had become repetitive. He focussed almost entirely on art directing for the next couple of years until he started to experiment with illustrative still life photography. This change re-ignited Greg's passion for photography, and he has now focussed all of his photographic work in that one area.

His illustrative work relies entirely on concept and Greg often uses found objects to convey a specific message. Although he usually has a set concept in mind when producing his images, the images must be versatile enough for stock photography. Because of this, Greg will usually prop them in such a way that the images can effectively communicate a concept in a number of different ways. He has a love of texture, and therefore works extensively with tungsten lighting in order to accentuate the surface of his props. Greg also works primarily with an 8X10 view camera when working on stock images, but still uses the 4X5 when working on commissioned images as clients rarely want to pay the production costs of the 8X10. Greg will also work digitally on Photoshop when the concept of the image demands it, but prefers to work conventionally in camera whenever possible.

Greg has taught photography since the mid 1980s and has been the Program Coordinator of the Langara CS Photography Program since 1997. He has sat as the President of the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC) Vancouver chapter and has also sat as the National President. Greg now sits as the Past president on the National Board of Directors. While freelancing will always be Greg's first love, academia holds a close second. The open sharing of knowledge and enthusiasm has always meant a great deal to Greg and he finds the student's passion for the craft and desire to experiment quite infectious. And this keeps him charged about his own work.