Here is Steve Carver's biography:
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Steve Carver received his first camera at the age of eight. At 13, he began formal education in photography at the High School of Music & Arts in Manhattan, where he received training in art and music.
Attending the University of Buffalo in New York on a Regents Scholarship, Carver developed an interest in photography while studying commercial art and illustration. He served an apprenticeship under several professional photographers, gaining valuable technical knowledge.
After completing his undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Carver accepted a fellowship to study classical arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by insightful portrait photography, he attempted to broaden the scope of his study by serious practice.
Following his graduate studies, Carver worked as a freelance portraitist, accepting a photojournalist assignment on a documentary film. This experience contributed to his artistic vision of observed life and sparked his interest in storytelling.
Carver then studied filmmaking at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, California, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. He worked as a conceptual artist, contract photographer, lecturer, film consultant, and journalist, eventually becoming a staff photographer for United Press International.
In his later years, Carver shifted his focus to filmmaking, attending the fellowship program at the Center for Advanced Film Studies and studying screenwriting, film directing, and editing. He became a feature film director, directing films and TV-movies worldwide.
In the 1990s, Carver established a photography business, The Darkroom, in Venice Beach, California. He focused on adapting new photographic technology to stimulate diversity in his work, exploring the boundaries of his classical photographic vision in black-and-white.
Throughout his career, Carver has been recognized for his exceptional portraiture, creating sensuous and moody figure studies that chronicle life and culture. He has also produced photo-transformations of people in motion, isolating successive stages of rapid movement using long exposures.
Today, Carver's ambition is to create exceptional collections of formal portraiture for wide publication, with the hope that these informative photographic studies will offer new interpretations and contribute to the necessary preservation of cultural heritages.
