Photographer in Los Angeles County, California

Neil Stephenson Photographer & creative Born in England, lived in Australia, now in America. A massive 25 years’ experience providing imagery and high-end creative visions. I started as a junior designer, through to senior designer and then creative director—my path winding its way through London and the home counties. From pasting up adverts for newspapers and spending hours in the darkroom when I was 17, to directing a location film crew at Almeria racetrack in southern Spain for a British Superbike Team, editing and re-editing all 16 hours of rushes in FinalCut... I've done a lot. I have been involved in casting for reshoots of national television commercials, scripting and directing voice-overs in high-end London Soho editing suites. I have photographed the Royal Air Force, created campaigns from concept to fruition for Mercedes-Benz, pitching against top London agencies. I’ve been the art director, and the creative director. I’ve been the designer and the copy writer. I’m art and director. I am experience. I’ve named multi-million pound companies, researched through Companies House, being the intermediary when purchasing the connecting online presence and url. Controlling the creative identity paramount to perception, consciousness and ultimately recognition, I have actually rebranded two creative agencies—realigning them within their peer-group. To some creativity is nothing—to others it’s everything and more. To me it is freedom. It’s a carefree beauty to be cherished, an art to be honed with passion—integrity, the one true destination. I love shooting live—people, bands, weddings. I love my prime lenses, selective focus, found light. I have my studio space, which is all lovely and white and peaceful and serene and calm (they all mean the same don’t they…) Honestly, I shoot for me. Even though you pay me. I offer you myself, my utmost, my best. I offer you something no-one else can offer you—me. I shoot—therefore I am.