Steve Raines

“I like the sound of saying I am a 'country photographer' because it describes what I find compelling to photograph: small towns and rural environments, their traditional past, their transitional economy, and their relationship with nature. I try to photograph what gives a sense of hometown by working with architecture, civil monuments and parks, and the beauty and solace of the nearby natural landscape.

I work with an 8 x 10 view camera because contact prints made from in-camera made negatives have a different personality than prints made from digitally enlarged negatives; in similar manner, hand-coated platinum/palladium prints have a different personality than computer-printer generated prints.”