Stephen grew up in Queens New York.  But it wasn’t until later while travelling in New Mexico that he found his eye. Playing music and designing graphics in his teens and early twenties helped him find an avenue for expression. but having no formal education in either, he had to depend on others to help him finish his creative ideas. Once he discovered photography he made it his own. His eye and sense of composition are his strength, and the intimate perceptions and sense of composition are uniquely his. This ownership of a medium was something he discovered immediately, but it has continuously evolved through the years.

Stephen’s work appeals to an audience as eclectic as his imagery. With clients ranging from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to the New York Times, National Geographic and LI Pulse Magazine and sales spanning from California to Europe, his work has been embraced by a wide array of discerning eyes.

 Stephen’s photography goes far beyond a face value representation of what is in front of him. It incorporates his vision, beliefs, respect, humor and spiritual guidelines. the work shifts from expressing faithfulness and truth to an abstraction of what he sees, but always captures something that is innate to both his personal, and our collective, human experience.