My work is about body language, unspoken but easily understood.

My work is about people and I think my love of people shows through my work…I hope so.Nothing is truer about people than true expression.

My approach to my work depends on what I’m involved with.

I started my career in editorial work and I still love the challenge of it.

I wait and look and anticipate for the little moments to capture. That place is bliss. To be in another’s space, in their world and their lives and to push my eye and camera to tell their story in the briefest of moments is a privilege.

My subjects are never not aware of my presence, rather, I think the feel my love and compassion for them in that moment and sense my bliss. That awareness puts them at ease and gives them permission to be themselves.

With commercial work I put my models at ease in the same manner.

Then I connive and cajole and dupe and laugh my way around my subjects to create moments that speak with the expressions of the body and the face, sometimes among complete strangers.

My work is about life and the love of people on their journey through it…just like me.

My voice is a picture.

Steven Thackston