Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in 1962, best known for his photography of cities and nudes, also commercially for music album and book covers.

Atkins attended Staffordshire College of Art and Design, gaining a Distinction; Cheltenham School of Art, receiving a First Class Honors Degree (in sculpture), followed by Postgraduate Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academie,[1] Netherlands (in performance, video, film and photography).

He then moved to Canada where, he became assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, during which time he travelled across North America.

Since then, Atkins has lived and worked in London, but has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, New York, Warsaw and Paris.

He has produced images for numerous CD and vinyl covers,[3][4] including David Lynch ('Good Day Today' and 'I know'),[5] The Breeders,[6] TV on the Radio,[7] Scott Walker[8] and Jah Wobble, and also for over one hundred book-jackets, including Arthur Miller, Anaïs Nin, Joseph Conrad, Georges Bataille, R. L. Stevenson, Peter Ackroyd, D. H. Lawrence, A. L. Kennedy and Iain Sinclair.