Image from the series World Beard & Moustache Championships by Luke Stephenson

Good Friday morning to you, collectors! The time has come for me to bring you a little insight into the life of one of our esteemed (and clever) photographers, Luke Stephenson.

Favorite dish to cook:
A Curry

Pet peeve:
People filing there nails; the sound is awful

Aisle or window seat?
Window

Favorite TV show:
You've Been Framed! or Homes Under the Hammer

Image from the series Budgies by Luke Stephenson

Internet time per week:
Far too much

Homepage on your computer:
Just Google

How many people do you know who own an iPhone?
Not one

Best attribute around the house:
I am very good at adding to clutter

Image from the series Spectacle wearing folk

White or wheat bread?
White for a bacon sandwich otherwise wheat

Favorite place to travel?
Italy is very nice

Biggest fear:
Being trapped a long way underground in a little tunnel. That would be horrible.

Do you have any guilty pleasures?
I feel guilty about most things that bring me pleasure, but I'd say mostly cigarettes and alcohol.

When did you decide to be an artist?
I suppose at school I didn't really know what I wanted to be, but I knew I would have to be something creative.

Can you remember your first photograph?
No, but I have a photograph which is the first photograph I took when I was about 3 or 4 years old of my Mum, Dad and Grandma on holiday in Tenerife. My Dad looks scared because I'm holding his new camera.

Where would you like to live?
I'm quite happy where I am.

What is your idea of an ideal day?
Waking up late-ish and have 2 boiled eggs with soldiers (toast fingers), then receiving a phone call telling me I had been commissioned to take a portrait of the Queen. Then I would go somewhere I have never been before, potter around for a while find some charity shops (where they would all contain wonderful things). Then I would buy a lottery ticket and then just happen upon a flying machine which was invisible not unlike Aquila which was a kids tv show when I was young. I would probably meet ALL of my friends in a nice pub and eat drink and be merry, go home and fall asleep in my bed and have very odd dreams.
Oh yes, I would have won the lottery with the ticket I bought earlier in the day. That would be my ideal day.


Who are your favorite characters in history?
I can't think of one.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My Mum and Dad!

Your favorite painters?
David Hockney, George Stubbs.

Your favorite photographers?
Stephen Gill, Charles Freger, Philip Lorca di Corcia, Andy Warhol.

Your favorite musician?
Far too many it changes every week

Your favorite author?
Roald Dahl

Do you collect art?
I am not sure you can call it art but I buy a lot of pictures from junk shops, car boot sales and charity shops. If it is a photograph, I can't help myself, it has become a bit of a problem.

Which 20x200 artists do you most enjoy?
Amy Ross, William Lamson, Kent Rogowski, Carrie Marill.

Image from the series Budgies by Luke Stephenson

What are you working on?
A music video, it's going to be an animation of a factory in a forest, and it should be interesting to make. I have made one or two little films before, and they are good fun. I don't really know what I'm doing or how its really going to work but I think that is what makes it fun.

If I were to walk in your studio right now, what is the first thing I'd notice?
A cardboard forest and me sitting on my computer writing to you.

If you didn't make photographs what would you make?
Bad paintings.

The End.

Luke's 20x200 edition prints:
Yellow Canary #1
White and Grey Canary #1
Luke's site