Steven
Bliss

2017 W/SW Juried Exhibition Application Portfolio

For the past twenty years Steve Bliss has been documenting the lives and times of his two sons with an 8 x 10 camera (along with less bulky devices). The project, though clearly domestic in approach, relates peripherally to American landscape tradition, playful art historical dialog, and the hardy family snapshot aesthetic. Though the photographer tries to be as elastic and flexible in concept as the preceding suggests, at center the photographs record the whimsy, wars and progression of male adolescence in a way that depicts a given family's idiosyncrasies while attempting a description of human relations that may be relevant in a larger context.