Photographer Steven Bliss

9 October - Steven Bliss
Photographer, Print-Maker

On October 9 at 2:30 pm, photographer Steven Bliss will give a public lecture in the conference room of Chester College of New England's Wadleigh Library. Bliss is a visiting artist, part of the college's Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Bliss is a print-maker and photographer who has a variety of interests and eclectic tastes. Images and subject matter drawn from popular culture appear in his photographs and his approach is personal as well as process-driven. In addition to working in the academy as a teacher, Bliss is an active exhibitor of his work and he is represented by Galerie Ruth Sacshe, in Hamburg, Germany and by Red Gallery, in Savannah, GA.

COMPASS ROSE interviews Steven Bliss

Compass Rose: What got you into photography?

Steven Bliss: My Dad making Christmas cards in the darkroom down in the basement.

CR:What was your first camera?

Bliss:I’m sure I used several cameras before, but my first serious camera was a 35mm Argus that I got when I was 14 or 15 years old. (more)