Steff Hutchinson: Portfolio: Photography
	Photography Web Design Artwork Music	Steff Hutchinson, MA in Photography BA(Hons) in Fine Art, painting and photography. Currently working on a Ph D in Photography. Artists' Statement I bought my first camera from a second hand shop for 50p when I was about 7. Three and a half years and many, many films later I asked for an SLR for my eleventh birthday. I've amassed another seven cameras since then, allowing me to use polaroid, medium format and digital technologies as well as 35mm film. Despite this early and continuing interest in Photography, until 1998 my main sphere of artwork was figurative painting. Since then, however, I have concentrated on Photography. I became a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society in 1999. For years, my photographs have been a celebration of the visual world, pointing out the details that I want others to enjoy. Looking at a body of this work, I can see that I have tended to abstract the small details, simplifying what I see to its essential shapes and tones. Where people are present, they are anonymous, without faces, and usually overshadowed by their surroundings. While I do still produce work of this type, I also now work in ways that combine my other art interests (painting, digital imagery and installation work) with photography. A study of masculinity focusing primarily on "Ultimate Males" - men's heroes, and the spaces they inhabit in both mind and reality - led to an installation first shown in part in the Lightgeist exhibitions, from October 2002. At present I am working on images and installations that make explicit the relationship between photography, geometry and aesthetics.
	Photography Exhibitions 2000 Solo show, Southtown Gallery, Leamington Spa 2001 Solo show, PictureHouse Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon 2002 "Double Vision", with Andrew Sutton, Nuneaton Art Gallery & Museum 2002 Group show, Leamington Society of Artists, Spencer Street Church, Leamington Spa 2002 "Lightgeist" group show, The Library Gallery, Kidderminster 2002 "Lightgeist" group show, Photofusion, London 2003 "Lightgeist" group show, Leicester 2007 Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group Show, London Click on the images or contact Steff to find out more.