Steve Smith: Photographer/Lecturer in Photography

Bn. 1972

“My early professional photographic career was centred around the fashion industry, working for fashion houses and magazines including Dazed and Confused and i-D Magazine and included celebrity portraiture for Instyle Magazine, The Telegraph and The Times.

In 2007 I returned home to Aberdeen to embark on my current role as a lecturer in photography. This move allowed a return to earlier photographic pursuits, far removed from the commercial constraints of a client’s brief.

My most recent work has documented areas of social concern with an inquisitive pursuit of neutrality and impartiality that is impossible to achieve, but fuels my deeper understanding of the subject”.

Steve Smith lectures full-time at North East Scotland College. He is currently self-represented and takes commissions on a select basis. 

Exhibition:

Close Encounters: Castlegate

.          Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen 01.07.24 

The Liminal Zone Project 

.         Creative Acadamy, Inverness, 30th May 2023 

.         Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, 05th Feb - 05th March 2022

.         Moray College, 19th-27Th January 2022, 

Trading Faces

·         Look Again Festival, Aberdeen 2019, (Steve Smith / Ian Grosz)

Environmental Perspectives

·         BP Atrium Gallery, Aberdeen 2018

Nostalgia (Steve Smith / Thomas kettle)

·         Kilau Gallery, Aberdeen 2011, (Steve Smith / Thomas kettle)

i-DENTITY. (25 Years i-D Magazine)

·         New York, February 2006

·         Hong Kong, April 2006

·         Tokyo, April 2006

·         Beijing, May 2006

·         London, December 2005

Talks:

Cultivate 2, Creative Industries in the North East – May 2018

Creative Me Podcast, (Steve Smith), Episode 16 – March 2018,

https://soundcloud.com/user-933577069/episode-16-steve-smith-everythingislies

Creative Me Podcast, Episode 62, (Steve Smith / Ian Grosz) – May 2019,

https://soundcloud.com/user-933577069/episode-62-steve-smith-ian-grosz-trading-faces