The mission of Shutterbug Photography School is to foster, share, and spread a love and understanding of photography.
A Photographic Manifesto, of sorts
Photography is more than just pictures!
Photography is an art and a science.
Photography can be a picture in a museum, a newspaper, a magazine, or a scrapbook. It is simultaneously fine art and family snapshot, found and constructed, evidence and fabrication, motion picture and still image.
Photographs can be quiet or loud, organized or chaotic, descriptive or abstract.
Photography is a mirror and a window.
Photography is analogue AND digital.
A photograph can be made with a phone, a camera, or none of the above.
Photography is a language that transcends language.
A relationship with photography can not only enhance the way we look at the world, it can actively change the way we see the world.
Shutterbug Photography School is owned and operated by Bryan Steiff. Bryan has been in conversation with the medium of photography for more than 35 years. He completed both a B.F.A (The Ohio State University) and an M.F.A. (Columbia College Chicago) in photography. As adjunct faculty in the Department of Photography at Columbia College Chicago for more than a decade, he was awarded multiple faculty development grants. He has also worked as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, taught at Loyola University and was a teaching artist in residence at The Laboratory School at the University of Chicago. His work has been exhitbited nationwide.
Whether teaching, freelancing photography and web design, or working as a professional art handler, Bryan’s entire career has been spent in the arts. He is a passionate maker and collector of art who loves almost everything about the creative world.
See his fine art at his website: www.theartnerd.com