Biography
Stephanie Rushton studied photography at Blackpool College, graduating
in 1985, then spent 5 years working with David Bailey. Her strong fashion
work gained her acclaim and kept her busy shooting advertising work
for a range of big name clients. Stephanie's work began to move away
from fashion and towards portraiture and since then she has worked for
both editorial and advertising clients, shooting portraits. Confident
in studio or location, her most recent work focuses on creating vivid
pictures of people in their own environment and capturing their eccentricities.
Apart from her commissioned work Stephanie is also working on two personal
projects. The first with contemporary artists, who are photographed
in their studio or with their work. The other project draws on Stephanie's
innate interest in quirky people and their environment and is entitled
English Eccentrics, she hopes one day it will become a book.
Statement
"I was born in Stoke in 1964 my family live there spread out all
over Staffordshire and I have many friends there still. It's a place
I left more than 25 years ago but my roots are there and I'm concerned
with one in five unemployed at the moment it is in need of massive regeneration.
The area was suffering before the recession with only a few potbanks
still in operation and now its on its knees."