Stephen Ladner

Master portrait, fashion, lifestyle and corporate photographer for 50 years, now painting, often combining photos and paint, to create unique images expressing love of color and an innate sense of design that emerges in a stream of consciousness process where each shape and decision evolves organically. Photography website: . Steve was one of the top fashion photographers and studio owners in NYC in the 70's, 80's. He photographed fashion and beauty for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Town & Country, Esquire, French Vogue, and The New York Times, and cosmetic ad campaigns for Revlon, Almay and Avon, and many others. Recently Steve began painting, combining photography and paint in a personal and unique way. In his own words: "It is an organic out-growth of what inspired and informed my photography: beauty, color, geometry, imagination, and the unknown. As I paint, the images and shapes that arise are a manifestation in the moment of a stream of consciousness. And as I add more color, a world starts to appear. A world that I recognize; that is very familiar to me. It feels like what I am painting is an integral and profound expression of something deep inside that I have always known, and only recognize as I release it fr...

English Major in college. Self-taught photographer and acoustic guitarist.

Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philadelphia 2010
Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philadelphia 2011
Wendy Concannon Gallery, Philadelphia 2012