Hello, I'm a photojournalist of life,marriage and music; of every victory,mis-step and the general antics of the people that populate my existence and bring me in to document their lives. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer. If you any questions for me, just ask. Thanks.
Patrick J. Stefano
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I have always been sporadic and crazy in my nature with my work (Thank you A Tribe Called Quest), with the obvious stated, I have always been trying to evolve naturally as a photojournalist/photographer and not influenced by business. With my year sort of winding down, me going back to work full-time and focusing on some new opportunities such as school for optical engineering and to be expected my work to say the least, my photographic work will be slacking.
With my blog I have always wanted to maintain a shift towards personal stories with a hope of pushing my work to be picked up and published by my god, a publisher. As much as I would love to be a globe-trotting photojournalist, telling the stories of the lives of the people we interact on a daily basis that how ever is not my current state of life but thank goodness because I have this blog as my outlet to publish my work, by my own hands. However, I am being realistic and want to keep my blog regularly updated. I have a ton of photos that I have never published which will be going up here along with the occasional stories as I produce them among the time I have available.
The move to go back to school for optical engineering (or some other mathematical/science based major that works directly with photography), is to reinforce my photographic work. Simply enough. I would also like the chance of making a sustainable income as money always seems to elude me this past decade if ever my entire life. Who knows, maybe I will be designing camera systems at Nikon then getting paid to “test” them by shooting with them and seeing what it takes to destroy them? Things I do now without the pay…
In the future expect a good mix of my work, stories as well as my work that I have spent the past six years building in some very candid moments of people you may know very well or complete strangers that somehow, for some reason you can connect with, if even for a moment.
As always, enjoy.