Brief Summary
Harvard Studio Photography was established by photographer Steve Hockstein in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey in 1993. In 2015, Steve relocated the studio to scenic Little Falls in Passaic County. Steve has shot award winning photographs for clients in the corporate, medical and health care fields, higher education, news gathering agencies, newspapers, magazines and websites in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, in addition to publications all over the nation and the world. He has photographed people, children, actors, actresses, writers, authors, artists, playwrights, politicians, musicians, executives, senior citizens, moms, dads, presidents, cats, dogs, goldfish, food, architecture, interiors, portraits, news, meetings and events in his over thirty years of professional photography.
Clients
Hackensack University Medical Center, Rutgers, Travel Weekly, New Jersey Monthly Magazine, University of Kentucky, Inside Counsel Magazine, Bloomberg Newsphotos...
Professional Experience
EXPERIENCE
Harvard Studio, Inc.
Harvard Studio Photography LLC
Montclair, New Jersey
August 1993 to Present
President
-Full service commercial location photography for local and national clients in the education, health care, editorial and advertising markets.
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, New Jersey
August 1993 to December 2000.
University Photographer, part-time/contract
-Scheduling, shooting, processing, editing and printing photography assignments for internal weekly newsletter, quarterly alumni magazine and media distribution.
-Establishing and maintaining university photo files for negatives and prints and computerized database.
The Bergen Record
Hackensack, New Jersey
August 1987 to August 1993
Photographer
- Photographing, editing and captioning daily news, sports and feature assignments.
- Initiating news and feature story photo assignments
- Maintaining department camera equipment and studio.
New Jersey Newsphotos/The Star Ledger
Newark, New Jersey
September 1986 to August 1987
Photographer
- Photographing , editing and captioning daily news, sports and feature assignments.
- Initiating news and feature story photo assignments
- Processing and printing black & white film and prints.
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
September 1982 to May 1986
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Graphic Arts and Photography
- Associate in Applied Science, College of Graphic Arts and Photography
Awards and Recognition
Over the years, I have won various awards including many from the National Press Photographer Association.
