Will Steacy - photographer
Some really nice work - from his
Bio page:
Will Steacy (b. 1980) is an American photographer and writer. He comes from five generations of newspaper men and worked as a Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, FotoFest Biennial, African American Museum of Art, among others, and represented in major collections, including The Haggerty Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Library of Congress. Steacy was named 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers by The Center for Documentary Studies and one of Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers of 2011.
What caught my eye was this:
Deadline
A wonderful series of photographs ranging from historical shots from the 1950's of his Grandfather and Father at work at
The Philadelphia Inquirer to his own photographs at the same paper from 2009 through 2012 when the paper moved to a new location.
A real telling of history -- a great (and poignant) story in about a hundred photographs.
Growing up in Pittsburgh, I knew some of the people that worked at the Pittsburgh Press. My mom's parents owned a paper distribution company in Erie, PA and when we would visit, I was often handed off to one of the salesmen and would spend the day visiting various print-shops. I later opened a copy-print business in Seattle and ran that for six years. My blood has a good measure of printers ink in it...
Posted by DaveH at April 23, 2013 2:28 PM