Steve Bloom

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Steve Bloom (2005)

Steve Bloom (* 1953 in Johannesburg ) is a South African photographer and author .

Life

Bloom was born and raised in Johannesburg. His early interest in photography was inspired by the pictures in Life magazine . In 1972 he trained as a gravure printer and portrayed people who lived under the apartheid system.

In 1977 he traveled to England , where some of the pictures were published by the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa and exhibited as a traveling exhibition . Steve Bloom worked in graphics for several years and in 1999 was jointly responsible for the implementation of the Addison designs for the official posters for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . Bloom began photographing wildlife in 1993 while on vacation in South Africa. In 1996 he devoted all of his time to wildlife photography and spent the next two years working on his first book, In Praise of Primates , which was translated into ten languages.

In 2004 Untamed was published , an oversized book with animals from all continents of the world. In 2006 Bloom published two monographs : Elephant! and spirit of the wild . In the same year he returned to photographing people. Living Africa , published in 2008, is a collection of photographs covering multiple African countries and photos of wildlife, remote tribal groups, and people living in cities.

By 2010, Bloom had produced eleven city center outdoor exhibitions entitled Spirit of the Wild , each consisting of up to 100 weatherproof large format prints. It should raise awareness of habitat intrusion and global warming. The inaugural exhibition in Birmingham lasted eleven months. Further exhibitions followed in Copenhagen , Leeds , Amsterdam , Stockholm , Moscow , Dublin , Oslo , Stavanger , Barcelona, Edinburgh , Tokyo and Abbeville . The Copenhagen exhibition opened on May 16, 2006 and was visited by 1,019,028 people in the first three months. In June 2012 the London Festival of Photography showed its exhibition Beneath the Surfac .

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Bloom: Beneath the surface: Steve Bloom's portraits of Apartheid . In: The Observer . May 27, 2012, ISSN  0029-7712 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 16, 2020]).
  2. ^ South Africa under apartheid in the 1970s . In: BBC News . May 30, 2012 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed July 16, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bloom, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African photographer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg