Steven Crainford

Born in Great Britain, Toronto photographer Steven has been taking photographs since he was a teenager. Until his jump to digital media in 2003, he used the large format view camera after he was introduced to it in 1990. He now works exclusively in digital format. He does all his own processing and printing.

His photographic styles range from straight unmanipulated ‘modernist’ photographs to his pure abstracts. He tries to follow the principle of photographer Minor White who expressed it simply - “You should photograph something for what it is AND for what else it is.”

He also follows the dictum proposed by noted photographer John Sexton when talking about interpreting an image – “You should whisper to it, not shout at it.”