Steven Perreault - 1975-
Born in Sherbrooke and raised throughout Nova Scotia, Drummondville and Montreal, Steven Perreault began exploring photography at the age of nineteen. Throughout the next ten years he would be in and out of photography programs, finally coming to terms with his vision after a tumultuous life of difficulty and adventure. Jail, drugs and alcohol, a renegade rock n’ roll lifestyle, a series of intense familial and romantic hardships, coupled with a mixture of German and French-Canadian cowboy roots led to the creation of a series of images that reflect the complexities of his life. From a person that saw so much of the grimy underworld of the music and the sex industry comes a body of work that explores duality, honesty, innocence, darkness and intrigue. A mixture of photography and digital photography, his editorial portraits and concert photography create immediate moments of surreality that surpass comprehension of color and emotion.
With over 10 years of experience in creative portrait photography, live subject photography, studio sessions, and an amount of professional concert photographs generously spilling over into the thousands. Steven Perreault has not only created a name for himself through innovation and consistency in perfection, he has also expanded his ability to adhere to an ever changing society by staying flexible to style and trend. In a day and age where the cookie cutter digital photographer of any level of experience or background can point, shoot and click creating generic photo after generic photo, Perreault strives to maintain what is becoming the lost art of film photography. An ability to shoot in Digital at a level far more advanced than the current “professional photographer” while gripping on to a love of film and the proper warm nature that it captures, Perreault has re-defined versatility by becoming well-rounded in every sense of the word. Photographs are frozen moments in time that convey an emotion and sense of nostalgia and awe every time they’re looked at; not piles of cold art like that which I fear will one day be the only thing that graces our fine magazines. Steven Perreault’s photos are not questionably what should be in a magazine, but rather they are a definite tool that we can use in the war against stagnant emotionless art.
