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Stephen Shames creates award winning photo essays on social issues for magazines, books, foundations, advocacy organizations, and museums. Aperture published Outside the Dream, Pursuing the Dream, and The Black Panthers as monographs. Shames wrote and directed three videos: Friends of the Children, Children of Northern Uganda, and Our Students.
Steve’s images have been exhibited and are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Photographic Arts, The Bancroft Library of the University of California, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He received awards from Kodak Crystal Eagle for Impact in Photojournalism, World Hunger Year, Leica, International Center of Photography, and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Foundation. Esquire and CBS Sunday Morning profiled him. PBS named Hine, Wolcott, and Shames as photographers whose work promotes social change.
Steve’s images are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography; National Portrait Gallery; The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Jose Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Ford Foundation; Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Baruch College, New York; Oakland Museum; University Art Museum, Berkeley.
Steve was profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, Esquire, US News, Ford Foundation, Photo District News, and American Photo. The Ford, Charles Stewart Mott, Robert Wood Johnson, and Annie E. Casey Foundations have underwritten his work. He testified about child poverty to the US Senate; was featured speaker at Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France; the American Bar Association and Children’s Defense Fund national conferences; and University of California at Berkeley. PBS named Hine, Wolcott, and Shames as photographers whose work promotes social change.
Steve started the Stephen Shames Foundation which locates forgotten children with innate talents and molds them into leaders. We do this by raising funds for and partnering with Concern for the Future, an indigenous Ugandan non-profit (NGO). Concern for the Future finds bright, motivated AIDS orphans, child soldiers, sex slaves, children living in refugee camps, child laborers, and other vulnerable children in Uganda who want to go to college but can't because of poverty, AIDS, and war. Concern for the Future pays their school fees and prepares them for university. Concern for the Future sends them to the best schools and provides them with everything they need to succeed. |
