Finlay MacKay was born in Scotland in 1973. In the mid-90s, he studied Fine Art Photography at
the Glasgow School of Art, before moving to London where he began his own personal exploration of
the art world.
He became an assistant to photographers such as Julian Broad, Alex Cayley and Elaine
Constantine with whom he worked full-time from 1999 to 2002.
In 2002, Finlay began working on his own portfolio, and his first photographs revealed a
highly original style that draws on the stylistic features of street art and comics as well as more
classic forms of English schools of painting.
The first great opportunity for his career was not long in coming: Diesel commissioned him for
the photographs of the “Work Hard” campaign, that would earn him and the KesselsKramer agency three
bronze lions at the Cannes Festival.
MacKay’s portfolio includes work for Nike, Adidas, Olympus, British Telecom, the Scottish
Ballet, Channel 4, The English National Opera and Harrods. In addition, he has also taken
photographs for important publications such as The New York Times, Sleazenation, 125 and Arena.
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