Presenting, photographer Steve Strauss’s distinctive portraits of life through his camera lens.
 
Steve Strauss was born in 1941, in a women’s hospital in New York City.  He grew up on Long Island, receiving his first Nikon camera at the age of 8 years old, from his song-writing uncle Eddie White.
 
Steve's passion for photography was honed during his college years upon meeting Peter C. Bunnell, who later became curator at Moma and Emeritus at Princeton University, Peter encouraged Steve to help his classmates from the Rochester Institute of Technology with their photography.  Afterward, Steve worked closely assisting Time-Life photographers Milton Greene and Nina Lean, as well as with fashion photographers such as Francesco Scavullo, Sherman Weisberg, Bob Richardson, and John Lewis Stage.

In 1967, Steve opened a studio in Midtown Manhattan working as a freelancer for a variety of clients in the fashion, beauty, corporate, music, and medical fields.  He also provided pro-bono services to not for profit organizations.  

In the early 1970’s J. Walter Thomson invited Steve to take photographs for a tribute to the Salvation Army in New York Times’ Magazine a special Christmas issue. Based on this work, Steve was given a "Certification of Merit" by The Art Director’s Club of New York.   He was also invited by famed lawyer William Kunstler to provide photographic help on his legal cases.
 
During the 80’s Steve traveled the country extensively, working as an advertising photographer for IBM and their Far East Magazine. 

It was around this time that Steve, while surf fishing for striped bass, met the art director of “60 Minutes,” who iasked him to help with opening segment photographs used on air before the commentator started each of their stories.
 
In 2000 Steve directed and founded a humanitarian project based on a unique group of German/Jewish men and women, who survived the Nazi's "Final Solution." Gross Breesen is a positive story about Education and Agriculture coming out of the Holocaust times called Gross Breesen & the “Learning Seeds”. 

This mixed- media exhibition has been viewed at Museums, University & High Schools. 
Please visit www.grossbreesen.com for more information.
 
Having struggled with dyslexia all his life, Steve sees this learning challenge as a blessing and not a curse as it drew him closer to the camera and the mission of reflecting images for communicating life's stories in a visual way.

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