stefen

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Born and raised primarily in the maritime provinces,Stefen was always aware he noticed intricate details in everything that surrounded him but never understood the full potential of showing others his gift until some 30 years later. From very early on Stefen made the love of his environment a large part of his photographic work. This love is blended into a professional photographic career forming unique fresh perspectives with high-end images.One of stefen's primary strengths is in his diversity of photographic skills and design. His experience and skill ranges from model agencies to large commercial clients,including weddings and wildlife. His technique is transferred from one application to another with an out of the box approach that his clients are drawn to. Great care and attention are paid to those clients in order to create the best possible results by listening intently to their visions and working as a team to bring those visions to life.Understanding that one person cannot stand alone, Stefen has taken great pride in associating himself with top professionals in the industry, in such capacities as, producers, graphic- designers, printers, editors and musicians. Along with strong industry associates and Stefen?s relentless passion for photography, a high end quality product is always priority one.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
A 150 years ago the first photographic images were created. The miracle of this art form does not lay with any one photographer, the credit still belongs to the artists long before the camera. They had the visions and mastered the incredible ability to recreate it on canvas, paper, out of stone or any other surface that would take an image. Since then, much has happened in the world. Photographers are the most recent recipients of technology With the tools (still, video, film or digital cameras) becoming more sophisticated everyday. Now it is hard to even imagine being without them. Some of the finest photography today can come from a cardboard throw-away or a digital camera. I have been photographing the world around me for many years and have a great deal of respect for the artform. Not every minute of those years was spent on photography. Not all of the nearly 10,000 images I have taken are perfect. The images are my interpretation of many things most of us do not even take the time to notice or appreaciate for the true beauty that lies in everything around us. One can find something of interest without much effort if one chooses to take a single moment of their time, from the look of a child to the last minutes of the sun as it sets in the west reflecting off the water's edge shining with a soft tinted glow. This aproach, along with the parallel and conceptual influences of my recent exposure to other photographers, gives my work a multi-layered quality; mystical at times, pragmatic and structured at others. I am deeply attracted to the notion of opposites...ambiguity, good, evil, chaos, order, positive, negative, complexity and simplicity; my work falls within the paremeters of those qualities.