hypeAbout Steve Morenos
Photojournalist and Fine Arts photographer Steve Morenos has had his eye on the the social and cultural fabric of his community for the past 30 years.
As a news photographer with News Limited's metropolitan newspapers both in Australia and London, Morenos has built an impressive catalogue of images that capture the news of the day and put a face and context to the issues of the moment.
In more recent years he has moved from news photography to dedicated fine art photography capturing images from our everyday that are, through Morenos' lens, extraordinary.
Morenos' last exhibition of work (2007-08) featured aquatic life photographed in his home studio and under controlled conditions at Sydney Aquarium. The work from this collection featured on the 2006 portfolio edition of DG Magazine and was selected as a semi-finalist in the Hasselblad Masters photographic competition in 2008.
Morenos holds a Fine Arts degree, with photography major, and is an Australia Council grants recipient. Along with his news and art photography, Morenos is an accomplished portraiture photographer. His subjects include comedian Billy Connelly, singers Sinead O'Connor, Dame Joan Sullivan, Cliff Richard, Moby and Kylie Minogue, writer Bryce Courtenay and actors Tommy Lee Jones, Russell Crowe and thespian John Bell, to name a few.
With an eye for detail, movement and light Morenos stretches the boundries of how photography is used. The camera is Morenos' palette. It's these qualities that make his work so unique, and what he has returned to with gusto after years of photographing for magazines, newspapers, books and other works.
Awards include: 2nd place in the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards/ Natural History; semi-finalist in the 2008 Hasselblad Masters photographic competition; bronze medal in the 2005 National Print Award's limited edition and art reproductions category, winner of the 2002 Better Digital Photography Awards.
1991 Rothmans National Press Photo Awards, Sport.
