Working for Worldwide Television News, ARD (Germany), ABC News (USA) and ITN (UK) among others, Craig documented the political turmoil of apartheid South Africa through to the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections of 1994. His work also took him to Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, covering conflict and political transition across the region.

Documentary work in this period included DOP credits on The Long Journey of Clement Zulu, The Black Sash — The Early Years, Robben Island and Anne Frank, The Angolan Elections (ARD Germany), Free to Move, and Out of Apartheid — a two-hour visual history co-produced with Doxa, Point du Jour and La Sept. Also notable was Mercury — An Island Diary (Doxa Productions), winner of multiple international awards including Best Independent Production at the International Canadian Film Festival.

Concurrently, Doxa produced music videos for South African artists including The Genuines, Jennifer Ferguson, Tananas, Pieter van der Lugt, Steve Louw, Vusi Mahlasela and Prophets of the City.

Between 1995 and 1997, Craig produced the Dispatches from the Cunene series — four films documenting the Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Dam on the Cunene River. Titles include Milestones, Data, Development and Technology, Impacts on the River Wild, and Memory, Landscape and the River. This was followed by Ephemeral Rivers of Western Namibia (1997, Doxa Productions) and This Crazy Thing Called Grace (1998), examining Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In 1999 Craig directed Narrative of Betrayal, filmed in Angola. The early 2000s brought his most celebrated work: Ochre and Water — Himba Chronicles from the Land of Kaoko (2001), which drew wide critical acclaim. Film critic Neil Sonnekus wrote in the Mail and Guardian: "Full of artistry, humanity and scientific accuracy, Ochre and Water is a lucid meditation on those thorny issues of development, post-colonialism and culture. It is the kind of film that can — and should — be watched over and over. Anywhere."

In 2002 Craig covered the post-9/11 occupation of Afghanistan for international news. He served as DOP on King Leopold's Ghost (2004, Linden Productions USA), the award-winning film based on Adam Hochschild's internationally acclaimed book on the atrocities of King Leopold II's rule in the Congo.

In 2005 Craig was DOP on The Insurgency (October Films, BBC/PBS), an unflinching look inside the Sunni-led insurgency in Iraq. That same year he shot Peace at What Price for ABC 20/20, investigating UN misconduct in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2006 saw the completion of the John Vorster Square interactive CD-ROM — a Sunday Times project developed in partnership with SAHA (South African History Archives). That same year Craig directed Fountain of Stories: Namibia (ICT4ID, 2006). In 2007 he shot Ross Kemp on Gangs (Season 2, Episode 4), covering Cape Town gangs and Pollsmoor Prison.

In 2008 Craig established VHA (Visual History Archive) as a nonprofit dedicated to collecting and preserving threatened audiovisual archives. In 2010 he completed Welcome Nelson, marking the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release.

In 2016 Craig served as DOP on The End of AIDS, a four-part PBS series filmed in Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya.

[Further productions 2016–2021 — details to be confirmed.]

With the relaunch of the Visual History Archive, Craig and Doxa Productions are developing an open-source digital archival platform using AtoM (Access to Memory), initially incorporating the Doxa and ARD Southern African collections. The vision is a unified, publicly accessible repository of the region's audiovisual heritage — making the collective memory of the continent democratically available to all citizens, scholars and institutions of learning.