My practices of filmmaking and photography are intertwined and constantly active, informing and speaking to one another. My filmmaking contains narratives about ordinary people living their lives in the in-between. The “in-between” for me are those connecting moments that make up the hours, days, months, and years of our lives. The times in-between are the events that are most often not remembered. I want to capture the small events in our lives, those that connect between the bigger ones, the ones that often are forgotten in the everyday. There is an intimacy that I try to capture in my in both practices - a personal intimacy, those parts of ourselves that we don’t often reveal to one another, as well as the intimacy of the spaces and environments we inhabit. This is related to the idea and experience of aloneness. Today we are inundated with all forms of connectedness through technology, yet our ability to be alone with ourselves has diminished. This lessens our ability to really be connected in more meaningful ways to ourselves, to others and the world around us.  In my photography I work to capture fleeting moments in time, whether it be in simple shadowscapes or in a portrait of a person. I want to reveal not just the surface but what is beneath the surface, the liminal state of my subjects. I like to play with ambiguity in my portraits by adding abstraction, a “contrived” shadowscape. This brings the viewer closer to the subject and allows a closer examination of our complex existences and our interconnectedness with the world around us. It is easy to overlook the quiet moments, the silence between speech and the small details in light and shadow.  It’s my hope that the viewer becomes more connected to both in a significant way through the frames of my work.

 

 

 

Steve holds degrees in both Fine Art Photography and Motion Pictures. He currently teaches Fine Art Photography and Filmmaking at Florida Southwestern State College, formerly known as Edison State College.  Prior to teaching at FSW he was one of the founding faculty members of the Undergraduate Program of the School of Motion Pictures Arts at Florida State University, where he served as a full time faculty member from 1990 – 2004 and taught in almost every area of filmmaking including editing, directing, production management and film studies.  During his tenure at FSU, he was recognized through several teaching awards and nominations.  He was singled out by the 1994 Graduating class of the Film school as their, Outstanding Professor and in 1997 he won Florida State University’s highly coveted T.I.P. award for excellence in college teaching.  In 2002 he was nominated for a university teaching award and in 2004 he was recognized for his distinguished contribution to the success of the Film School. 

He has taught Fine Art Photography at FSW since 2008.  

 

Steve is a recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship - 1992. 

Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida

 

 

 

M.F.A.- IA -  Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts.  Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont.

B.S.C. - Bachelor of Science in Communications. University of Miami, Miami Florida.