Steve Orino

Born 1964 Rotherham.
I've had over two decades of experience as an International people photographer.
I work in Portraiture, Editorial & Advertising in Asia, US & Europe.

My work developed in the decade of free market capitalism.
Lavish & prosperous clients demanded larger than life, extreme portraits of subjects.
My influences came from Brian Griffin at Management Today & Anne Leibovitz at Vanity Fair, but always with a slight tongue-in-cheek.
Now a days I refer back further than those times, to early photographic history and Irving Penn, Arnold Newman & Richard Avedon.

I studied Photography, Film & TV at Bournemouth College of Art & Design in 1984 for three years, leaving with a Distinction.
Exhibitions include:

1986 - 'Something fishy going on in Bournemouth' The Photographers Gallery

1987 - 'Raw' Association of Fashion, Advertising & Editorial Photographers Gallery

1987 - 'Men of Iron' Poole Arts Centre

1995 - 'John Kobal photographic portrait awards' National Portrait Gallery

2006 - 'Signature' Association of Photographers Gallery

2009 - 'From Here to There' Arts Institute at Bournemouth
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