Biography can be a bore. My life isn't over yet so how much of it is really worth reading about? Years ago I used to keep journals and there's a large metal box somewhere full of my daily scribblings, my 'fantastic' and 'colourful' formative years all logged in black ink and illustrated with snapshots and personal cartoons. These diaries need to be burned. They are not me anymore. The problem with keeping a journal is that you can never stop, if you do there's a very good chance that the notebooks left behind will be the only record of your life, the one they'll all believe. I stopped writing as much and began taking photographs instead. I may have had other jobs, I may have lead several different lives but I've always been a photographer since I was six years old. One day I was born and one day I will die and up to the death rattle a high proportion of me will be documented on film somewhere. A lot of it is here and the rest will arrive as it is re-discovered and as it occurs.
Goodnight, Godbless and AMEN.......
Stephen Stevlor February 2006