about
Steve Broido is a photographer living in Arlington, Virginia. He grew up in West Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Wesleyan University with a Theater degree and a concentration in performance art. He started taking photos and working in a darkroom in the 7th grade. He switched from film to digital cameras around 2000. He's done commercial portrait and event photography and is excited about his first upcoming solo exhibit at The Gallery Undergound.
Steve’s full-time job is as the Director of Multimedia for The Motley Fool, a financial media company based in Alexandria, Virginia. Steve began working in radio in 1997 but transitioned to video production in 2006. He loves shooting, recording, producing, editing, and mixing. He thanks his art collecting parents for his love of art, his father in law (photographer Albert Horner) for teaching him about color saturation adjustments in Photoshop, his wife for letting him keep a 200 pound printer in their home, and Kent Walker of Walker Supply in Rockville, Maryland for figuring out how to get said printer up three flights of stairs.
“I’ve been taking photos since I was 12 years old. I photograph the most when I travel. And I tend to take a lot of pictures. Digital photography is incredibly liberating. There’s no downside to experimenting and shooting a lot. I may go through a thousand exposures in an afternoon. I often don’t know what I’m looking for when the day begins and rarely know if I’ve found what I’m looking for it until the day is done. Sorting through pictures on a laptop after a day of shooting is one of the best feelings in the world. Most of the pictures I take just don’t work. But every now and again, the stars align and an image is born that I’m proud to share. Landscape photography is one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to learn how to do. Scale and distance don’t always translate well to two dimensional media. But I love the technical and artistic challenge of taking and printing photographs.”