Bio / Contact

Current Location: Virginia, USA

Phone: (+1) 757.839.5523

Email: steve@steveremich.com

Skype: steveremich

Facebook:my Facebook page

First of all: Thanks for looking at my site! This is a small taste of some of the pictures I have made and stories I want to tell.

I left a promising career sailing schooners in 2004 and began my photojournalism career by studying at the Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, Va. I spent a year there photographing the people and stories of Tidewater Community College  as part of a book project, “Acts of Optimism”, which was published in 2007. You can see some of my pictures and the great online site that was created for the book here: Acts Of Optimism. It was an incredible experience that I was lucky to be a part of and it sparked my love for photojournalism.

After a brief stint of freelancing for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Va. I started the journalism program at the University of Missouri in 2006 where I am currently working on a master’s degree in journalism, which I plan to receive in May 2010. “He’s really dragging this thing out”, you may be saying to yourself right now. Well, I have kept myself busy…

In 2006, I spent a summer studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina where I photographed Fidel Castro during his last appearence out of Cuba. Man, can that guy talk.
Much of my work deals with issues faced by Hispanics domestically and internationally and I spent 7 months as an intern for the weekly, Spanish-language newspaper El Sentinel. This was the second of two internships that I did back-to-back (1 year total) in 2007 and 2008.

Then, after returning to Missouri in 2009, I finished my course work and then spent six months (Jun. ’09 to Dec. ’09) in Ecuador and Bolivia photographing my master’s project and working with a colleague on a grant project about land reform in Bolivia, respectively. You can see some of my work from these two projects here, The Promised Land and A Modern Pilgrimage. They were the beginning of many good things to come.