Craig joined the Sydney Morning Herald the same year it was recommended by one of my teachers that I, as a teenager, should start reading it.
His photography, and that of another couple of Herald sports photographers, made us viewers much more appreciative of the art of turning the potentially mundane recording of everyday sport into art.
It always struck me that working in that sports department must have been the Australian equivalent of something like a position in Life magazine.
I’d always turn to the sports pages first (my economics teacher would have preferred I sought out the business section) and peruse the photos.
I learnt that it’s not enough to record the moment but that one should look for shapes and patterns, for shadows, for angles, for movement, for simplicity, for exclusion, for personality.