Craig Lonnel Moran belongs to a career Navy family that has been stationed all around the country. After high school he attended Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turner Falls, MA and graduated in 1984.

After moving to Virginia in 1985, Craig started freelancing for newspapers and working as a photo assistant for a Time Life contract photographer. He later obtained a staff position at the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia in 1990. After four years, He moved to Nevada for a staff position at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and worked there for 17 years.

Craig's credits include Newsweek, Time Life Books, People, Parade, Maxim Blender, CBS News, USA Today, LA Times, NY Times Sunday Magazine, ABC News, Success, Image Magazine, Las Vegas Review-Journal staff photographer, Daily Press staff photographer, Black Image Las Vegas, Las Vegas Business Press, Las Vegas Weekly, The Associated Press and Neon Magazine. He has received multiple awards from the Virginia and Nevada Press Associations. 

He specialises in editorial photography using the latest cameras and computers for remote transmission. Craig also photographs annual reports, architecture, industrial plants, fashion models and weddings.