Steve Bloom is a South African photographer known for his wildlife and nature photography as well as his photos documenting life under apartheid. He began his career taking portraits in South Africa and later founded a photographic special effects company in London. In the 1990s he began focusing on wildlife photography in Africa and has published several books showcasing animals. Bloom's photos strive to capture the spirit of animals and blur lines between species. He has received numerous awards and his work has been featured internationally in magazines and exhibitions.

1. By: Kayceena Buza
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2.  As you see here in
this clip of him in
action. I love his
work of still life. He
has achieved so
much in his life time
and is one of the
world's leading
nature and wildlife
photographers to
this day.
2Kayceena Buza

3. •Bloom's early interest in photography was inspired by the pictures in
Life Magazine. In 1972 he trained as a gravure printer, and took
portraits of people living under the Apartheid system. He worked in
graphic arts for several years. Mr. Bloom began to photograph
wildlife in 1993 while he was on vacation in South Africa. In 1996 he
dedicated his all of his time to wildlife and spent years working on
his first book called, " In praise of Primates." Became a well known
book in several countries and is wrote in ten languages.
• In 2004, of all the pictures he have taken while in Africa was finally
published. Then later in 2006 he wrote and took pictures for his next
outstanding book called, " Elephant! and Spirit of the Wild." In the
late year of 2006 he went back to photographing people. My most
favorite of his work is "Living in Africa" which was published in 2008.
Across the world his work inspires and expressed the Third world
country. In his lifetime, he has seen and heard everything and I
believe that's what makes a great photographer. His work inspires
me to become the best in my field and someday I would love to be
famous.
3Kayceena Buza

4. Steve Bloom is a writer and a photographic artist
who specializes in evocative images of the living
world. Born in South Africa in 1953, he first used
the camera to document life in South Africa
during the apartheid years. He moved to England
in 1977 and co founded one of London’s leading
photographic special effects companies. With the
use of pioneering digital techniques, he quickly
built up a world wide client base and worked on
many prestigious campaigns, including the
official posters for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic
Games.
In the early nineties, during a
safari holiday, he began
photographing animals, and
within a short time he had
swapped his established city
career for the precarious life of an
international travelling
photographer. Steve Bloom’s
concern for the environment is
strongly evident in his wildlife
images. He strives to capture the
animal’s spirit, and blur the lines
separating different species. 4Kayceena Buza

5. Some of his Famous
Pictures of People
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6. Wildlife Pictures
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7.  Steve Bloom frequently reinvents his creative approach to his work. He has won international
awards for his work, including The Power of Photography Award, The Golden Eye of Russia,
and Lucie Awards. Numerous magazine publishers such as Life, Time, Terre Sauvage, National
Geographic, Geo, Airone, and Geographic, as well as many photographic publications, have
featured his pictures. Even his own books have been published internationally. Steve Bloom
has had a number of exhibitions, both current of today's work which includes large outdoor
exhibitions.
 In the 1970's he pioneered the process of morphing images into each other, long before such
techniques became popular on the computer. His work in Apartheid South Africa, poignant and
edgy, reveals the alienation of a country on the cusp of change and placing Bloom among the
select few photographers who caught the mood of the time. He was exiled from South Africa
for thirteen years as a result of those photographs, and settled in the UK in 1977. In 1980 he
converted monochrome pictures of Britain's holiday camps into highly saturated color images
which were printed in layers as unique CIBA chromes and exhibited in London's
Photographers' Gallery.
 Blooms animal photography was a continuation of his exploration of different genres of
photography. His goal was to use images to communicate with the masses, and take
photography exhibitions outside galleries. This was done in spectacular fashion with the
publication of Untamed in ten languages for its first edition, and the staging of major outdoor
exhibitions called Spirit of the Wild. The exhibition has been seen by millions of people in
eleven European cities.
 His return to photographing people resulted in the book Living Africa, published in nine
languages in its first edition. More recently, Trading Places , The Merchants of Nairobi is a book
that features an engaging community and its street art. The large scale archival prints from the7Kayceena Buza

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•"Steve Bloom." Wikipedia, 2010. Print.
•http://www.stevebloomphoto.com/pdf/Steve%20Bloom%20Fine%2
0Art%20Prints-bk.pdf
•http://www.stevebloomphoto.com/press.html
• Bloom, Steve. "Steve Bloom Photography." Steve Bloom Bio. 2009. Web.
9 Nov 2010.
Clips I used:
•Living Africa by Steve Bloom. Dir. Steve
Bloom." 2008, Film.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_
query=steve+bloom&aq=1
•Spirit of the Wild Part I . Dir. Steve Bloom."
2008, Film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgtr
759Oh8
•Spirit of the Wild Part II . Dir. Steve Bloom."
2008, Film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jEi
CwV3U0&feature=related