My involvement with photography spans thirty years.
In the 1970’s, using large format view cameras, I photographed extensively in New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. My photographs and oral history interviews telling the stories of people living along the Great Northern Peninsula were published in the book Beyond the Road: Portraits & Visions of Newfoundlanders. I received a B.A. from Brown University in 1978 and have taken photography workshops with Ansel Adams in Yosemite, California, and studied with Aaron Siskind in graduate classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.
An interest in flying, which began with single engine flights out of a grassy strip in Fairlee, Vermont, ultimately led to a lengthy tour of duty as a U.S. Navy pilot and over twenty years of flying as a pilot and Captain with American Airlines. Although I chose not to pursue photography as a vocation, it has continued to be my passion. During the past twenty years I have been capturing the portraits and stories of my two children, at first with film cameras, and then with digital equipment. Nothing has been more fascinating and rewarding for me than this work, and I would like to take on your project, portrait, or story with the same sensitivity, thought and dedication.
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Publications:
Taylor, Stephen. Portfolio One. 1974
Taylor, Stephen and Horwood, Harold. Beyond the Road: Portraits & Visions of Newfoundlanders. Toronto: Van Nostrand Rheinhold Ltd., 1976.
Taylor, Stephen. “William Godfrey talks about his life as a Country Auctioneer.” Blair & Ketchum’s Country Journal. September 1978: 80-81.
Beyond the Road: Portraits & Visions of Newfoundlanders
Stephen Taylor, Harold Horwood
1976