Reared on the plains of the Midwest, Steve
Bonner picked up his first 35mm camera as a
teenager, taking the usual travel photos with
his vacationing parents. Steve learned black & white
and low light skills photographing local rock
and roll bands, working in a dark room created
in a spare bathroom.
Steve, with his family moved to New Mexico
in 1991. “We always vacationed in Northern
New Mexico, loved the mountains, and was always
intrigued with the special light.”
Amazed at the unique abilities of painting
with light, Steve moved to digital capture,
using his traveling sales position to go to “hidden” areas
of New Mexico. It is the remote, off the tourist
track, that Steve has found some of his favorite
light captures. “A camera is always within
arms reach.”
A graduate of the Photo Digital Imaging Program
of the Academy of Art University at San Francisco,
California, Steve is a former two term president
of the Enchanted Lens Camera Club in Albuquerque.
The club, known as the ELCC, is a 54-year-old
organization that conducts monthly programs
and competition. Steve holds several awards
of merit, and was awarded the photo of the year
(2003-2004) for his “Taste that Form” in
its category “B Color” competition,
as well as competes at the State Fair of New
Mexico.
Steve was selected to display for the
Digital Fine Art Society of New Mexico’s,
New Mexico Digital 2004 Juried Competition,
at the South Broadway Cultural Center, for his “Free
Yourselves,” the competition's third place
winner.
“America 24/7” selected one
of Steve’s photos for publication in a
state book titled “New Mexico 24/7,” published in November 2004.
“I try to give the viewer a reason, whether
they like the image or not, to stop and look
at the image, draw deeper, so the viewer loses
all sense of their peripheral vision.”
Steve uses an Olympus E-1 35mm digital camera, a Widelux F8 35mm film panoramic camera,
a Hasselblad 501C medium format camera, and a Sinar F 4x5 large format camera for all
his light capture.
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See additional work by Steve Bonner at the Fred Miranda Gallery HERE.
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