Steve Le Grys an award winning photographer, based in Suffolk. I started my working life as an apprentice camera operator for a London book printers 47 years ago. The majority of my career has been spent in the print and graphic industries.
In 2015 I returned to education to study for a degree in photography.
Awarded Bachelor of Arts in Photography from the University of East London Ba(Hons)
Awarded Associate of The Royal Photographic Society (ARPS)
Awarded RHS Silver Gilt Medal 2019
Awarded RHS Silver Medal 2021
It was during my time as a university undergraduate, that a chance visit to see the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Science Museum created a profound influence on my studies and photographic perception. Subsequently my goal has been to become competent in the Wet Collodion process made famous by Julia Margaret Cameron and Roger Fenton. My belief that the current desire for speed and for ever greater resolution is having an adverse effect on the artistic abilities of the photographer. Subject and style have been sacrificed in favour of process. Wet Collodion Photography although very slow and at times difficult, has now become my desired artistic format. I take from the past, combine with the present, to create something new for the future
Steve Le Grys BA(Hons) ARPS
Awarded RHS Silver Medal 2021
Awarded RHS Silver Gilt Medal 2019
Award winner, The Royal Photographic Society 365 Competition 2018
Runner up, Photo London 2017
Award winner, Free Range, Truman Brewery 2017
Finalist, AOP Open Award 2017
Finalist, Royal Photographic Society's 160 International Photography Exhibition 2017
Exhibited at
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds 2023
The Apex,
Bury St Edmunds 2022
The Saatchi Gallery, London 2021
RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2021
The RPS Analogue Exhibition, The Core Theatre, Solihull. 2021
The Apex,
Bury St Edmunds 2020
RHS London Botanical Art and Photography Show 2019
Photograd, The London Met 2018
RPS Eastern Area Exhibition 2018
RPS 160IPE, Truman Brewery and then on National Tour 2017-2018
AOP Open Award, Truman Brewery and then on National Tour 2017-2018
Free Range, Truman Brewery 2017
Wrap up London, The Broadgate Tower 2017
Museum of London 2017
Publications and Conferences
RPS Publications Imprint, Don't Press Print. Proceddings of the RPS Wet Collodion Process Conference, October 2020
RPS Conference, The Wet Collodion Process October 2020
RPS Journal magazine Feburary 2019
RPS Analogue magazine November 2018
RPS Journal magazine August 2018
