Stephen Dexter

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I got my first camera when I was eight. It was a Kodak Instamatic ‘36’. I never really thought about taking pictures, I just took them and enjoyed the anticipation of waiting for the prints … back then I was into computers. When I turned 16 I decided I wanted to be a film director, and 23 when I started getting into film via writing.

One day, back in ‘01, I borrowed my brother’s 35mm compact camera to takes pictures of my mate’s band at Strawberry Fair in Cambridge. The band loved the images, which gave a boost to my confidence. A year later they got signed and I got some business from their label, and built a portfolio from there.

I used a Nikon SLR between ‘03 and ‘06, a digital Olympus bridge camera between ‘06 and ‘07, upon which I photographed some established and rising artists for Music on-Air magazine – until one day an artist inquired if I was actually taking pictures because the camera was producing no shutter sound. That prompted me to get a proper DSLR, a Sony Alpha, which has the loudest shutter sound ever – now everybody knows when I’ve taken a picture! That was useful, until I did stills on a couple of film shoots!

I carry an old hand-me-down Nikon compact around.

Other than taking pictures, I produce and direct videos, factual and corporate and I’m currently editing a feature-length motion comic film called The Corpse Flower. Not quite a feature film director … yet!

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