Almost a year to the day from his first Exhibition, Steve Bolt is doing it again. Steve Vision Photography: “From Behind the Lens” is opening on Thursday 29th January and will run through till Wednesday 4th February in the Fletcher Challenge Foyer of the Michael Fowler Centre, Central Wellington.

“With – I hope – increasing effect I have been involved with photography since my late teens. And that means that for 20 years or so I have been more and more looking at the world through a viewfinder above a lens,” said Steve Bolt.

“The move towards Steve’s Vision Photography really began in the late ’90s when I returned after some years overseas with an immense pile of OE negatives that I had brought back and then stored away. (Don’t we all?!) I started to move some of that photographic work into a variety of outlets through Wellington and the Wairarapa.”

So far there are about 650 of his images on walls around the world. And thanks to the Salvation Army 2006 Calendar, some exposure of a more public kind gave his work a further boost. This has all been followed with his first exhibition in Carterton, Wairarapa during early 2008, being the provider of three Bonus Prizes on TVNZ’s Wheel of Fortune game show (The Room with The View panoramic canvases, with the view chosen by the winner), and a growing volume of commercial work. The Steve’s Vision DVD of images is being sold throughout NZ. And in addition, his website – www.stevesvision.co.nz, where all his work can be seen is now flourishing.

This is Steve’s first Wellington exhibition of work – what he sees as the next logical and most important step in his photographic career. The images seen in this show are not only on his website, but they are all on his first and now second released DVD – Steve’s Vision 2 (aptly named!). The second version was completed late December primarily celebrating Steve’s travels of NZ over 2008. Some serious thanks must go to my Dad who built the DVDs for me and makes my images look fantastic on the big screen. And my Mum and I made the music that accompanies them. A family affair…

As Steve has stated, “There is, for example, nothing quite like standing in the middle of nowhere, you hear only distant waters or the sound of a lone sheep, and you know that there is nobody near for as far as your eye can see. And the (right) photograph will bring that gift of space and silence to whoever sees the image. Or you stand in the midst of the roar and bustle of a city and there – just there – is a tiny detail that you have seen every day yet never seen until now.”

This is what he endeavours to do with the images in his vision – in the Photography of Land, Sea, City & Sky.

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