Stephen Best has been a practicing photographer for over fifty years exhibiting both nationally and internationally.
In 1980, he dropped out of art school, left Australia and headed for New York. For six years, he obsessively documented the city through his lens.
Returning to Sydney (and art school), he graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) with Honours. Now living in Adelaide with his partner Rachel, Best divides his time between the city and the idyllic Adelaide Hills. An accomplished cook, ceramic artist, gardener and yoga teacher, photography remains his enduring passion.
“WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY?”
"Nothing but relations, nothing but affects. Photography and, and, and. Ceasing to suppress the AND, photography works with the infinite responsibility that one is never quits with regard to the other. Whether or not so-called 'appropriated images are used, one is never quits with regard to the other. Digital images; analogue images; straight images; queer images; colour images; black and white images; single images; composite images; framed images; unbound images; one is never quits with regard to relations, to the implication of an other.”
I have been photographing and image making for a the majority of my life.
The time has come to share it all.
NB. A variety of these images are available. Ranging from vintage hand made prints, to more contemporary archival digital images & reproductions from negative scans.
Enquire - stephenbestis@gmail.com