Laurie Bartley was born in Basildon, Essex, England in 1977.  

Intrigued by family photo albums and his father who was a keen amateur Photographer, Bartley grew-up taking photographs.  Later, he went on to study photography in Norfolk before moving to London where to work as an Assistant Photographer.

Bartley’s passion for cinema begun to inspire and shape his stills fashion Photography.   Initially experimenting with film lighting, Bartley then begun applying techniques more familiar in filmmaking to his process.  Using narrative, character building, set design, props and special effects, with a notion to the Mise-en-scene, Bartley’s fashion images begun to reminisce film stills, where models were actresses and poses actions. 

Bartley’s work first came to notice through commissions for the Fashion Industry’s Avant Garde publications like Dazed & Confused and The Face.

Bartley’s work has appeared in publications including: British Vogue, Vogue Japan, Vogue China, US Vogue, Elle US, Elle France, Elle UK, Departures, Numero and Dazed & Confused. Bartley advertising credits include: Max Factor, Dior, Equinox, Tod’s, Jean Paul Gaultier, Diesel, Bulgari & Anna Sui.

His fashion work has also been exhibited at the V&A museum in London and featured in a Fashion Photography retrospective at the International Centre of Photography in New York.

Bartley’s directorial credits include: a series of short films entitled Near Yonder that was recently presented on Nowness and a documentary short for Vogue China about the pioneering Artist and Architect, Gaetano Pesce.

Bartley lives in Brooklyn New York.