About
Steven has long had a passion for photography and art but as a young man from Kingston upon Hull, he decided on a career in engineering first at Edgerton Machines Hull, After redundancy to Richard Sizer Limited at a time when “Sizers”, a company renowned for its engineering skills and expertise in the innovation and manufacture of animal feed compounding plant then growing by acquiring George Porteus and Sons Ltd of Leeds and Robert Boby Limited of Bury St Edmunds both of whom were established manufacturers and market leaders of malt and barley mills. After the second redundancy it was off to British Aerospace (BAE Systems). Finding this to be an outlet for his creativity, it proved to be very successful resulting in working in Research & Development and him receiving seven innovation awards for industry including the Chairman's award for aircraft harmonisation (Photogrammetry) in 2002 which was presented to him at The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. USA.
Steven acquired his first camera at the age of fifteen one of many, and has since won several photography competitions.
Throughout the last forty years he has studied fine art and photography becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2009, culminating in a second career. He and his wife opened two very successful art galleries (Bohemia Galleries) York and Beverley (Yorkshire) for 18 years showing fine art, sculpture and photography. Steven was CEO and Curator of Exhibitions.
Subsequently during their extensive travels around the World Steven, camera always in hand, has continued to interact and photograph people and to capture the places that have inspired him.
After publishing his first book The Face of New York the second book followed The Face of Jazz
He was a member of the National Union of Journalists. Steven loves to share his knowledge.
Eccles Photography
14 Queensgate, Beverley, HU17 8NW, East Yorkshire, England
Tel: +44 (0)7880747454
www.ecclesphotography.com
bohosteve@gmail.com
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Steven T. Eccles testing a Phase One
What's In My Camera Bag: Fuji: GFX50R, XT2, XT3, XH1, Xpro2, and Fujifilm Square (Polaroid)
Camera Collection : Nikon D4, D500, Laica M6, Mamiya Universal Press, Hasselblad 500cm, Tomiyama Art Panorama 6x17cm, Horizont - Russian panoramic, Polaroid SX70 and more.