He was taken in by the Albert Kennedy Trust and subsequently put into foster care with Richard Field, a gay artist living in South London.
[2] In 2010 Addy was tasked with reorganising the school library, where he discovered the books of Nick Knight, Norman Parkinson and Irving Penn and realised that the possibility of using photography in an artistic storytelling way.
[3][4] Addy studied Fashion Communications at Central Saint Martins, where he realised he wanted to be a photographer after an encouraging conversation with friend Ib Kamara.
[6][7] Campbell Addy has worked with a number of fashion clients including Off-White, Calvin Klein, MAC.
He has shot magazine covers for WSJ, Time, The Cut, Dazed and Rolling Stone, and photographed Tyler, the Creator, FKA Twigs, Naomi Campbell, Beyonce, and Edward Enninful.