The Life of an Artist
by Steve Evans

I can remember back when I received my first camera.  I was around eight years old.  It was a Kodak 110 camera and I loved taking photographs with it.  However, it was not until I was in high school that I started to take photography seriously.  I can remember my first darkroom class and waiting for the print to develop.  It was like magic and I was hooked ever since.

While still in high school I had my own display of my nature photography.  I loved to photograph nature when I was still a teenager and would hike with my camera and photograph landscapes and waterfalls whenever I had the chance. I learned during this time about my connection with nature and wanted to spend as much time as possible in the field.

A few years later I decided to attend Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turners Falls Massachusetts.  It is there that I received my formal training in photography and upon completion worked as a commercial photographer in Florida.  Later I moved to Chicago where I worked as commercial and specialized as a medical photographer for a prestigious pediatric hospital.

My current ambition is to use my photography to show people just how beautiful and fragile our environment is and how important conservation is to its survival.  After twenty years of photography, the craft is still a learning process and that is what excites me the most.  It’s not the latest and greatest gizmos but to keep learning the craft of photography and pushing myelf as an artist to portray my own personnel vision.

~Steve Evans