As I have every issue of Creative Camera ever published, I thought it would be interesting to assemble a mosaic of all the covers, from May 1967 (when it was still Camera Owner) until May 2001 (when it had morphed into DPICT).

A break was made from the classic silver and black cover with Issue 209, May 1982, but it returned a few times after that. It was last used in March 1986, Issue 255.

Colin Osman, Peter Turner and Creative Camera: an essay by David Brittain

An eerie silence followed the collapse, last summer, of the magazine formerly known as Creative Camera ⁽¹⁾. It was dramatically broken this spring by two articles in the press. The first was an emotional first-person "epitaph" for Creative Camera written by its longest serving editor, Peter Turner⁽²⁾. Shortly afterwards the Guardian, a British broadsheet newspaper, published the obituary of Colin Osman, founder of Creative Camera. Turner's respect and love for Osman is obvious from reading his article - which, given its timing, now seems like a pre-emptive obituary for the man he has called a 'father figure'. Turner and Osman enjoyed one of the most fruitful and controversial relationships of British photography. Despite being divided by a generation and by temperament, they shared many attitudes and convictions: a passion for photography, self-assurance and loyalty, a desire for change and contempt for the establishment. Together and jointly they used Creative Camera to articulate the themes that would define British photography in the 70s and then divide it in the 80s.