Steve Berger Steve Berger began taking pictures when he was fourteen years old in his hometown of Atlantic City, NJ to earn money for college. In his late forties, while maintaining a successful career as the president of a large communications company, he again took up his once serious interest in photography. His work is primarily in black and white and he uses several negative formats from tiny 35mm to 8x10 sheet film in a 60 year old Deardorff camera. Recently, he has converted his work to almost total digital photographic capture and is ravenously exploring the possibilities of the color that digital photography offers him. All photographs are printed, mounted, matted and framed by him in his studio/darkroom in Jamesport, New York where he has begun work on a portfolio project documenting Long Island':s North Fork. Steve has won several awards for his photography and has been the subject of two public access programs on Cablevision':s channel 20. For the past 7 years he has hired and trained one or two high school seniors annually as apprentices to learn the black and white photographic process. He teaches them film and print development, composition, matting and framing. Retired from the broadcast industry since 1998, his photographic work is in several private collections including the Nationwide Insurance Company collection. Steve, his wife Ellen, a multimedia artist and animal activist and their 11 cats are year round residents of Jamesport where they are involved in philanthropic, environmental protection and animal rights endeavors. Two years ago, in cooperation with the Riverhead Landmarks Committee, he produced over 40 photographs of Riverhead historical buildings that were on display at the Suffolk County Historical Society. Recently, he finished documenting houses in what will become the South Jamesport Historic District. elsewhere on the web: web site: Steve Berger Photography