Biography

He has participated in a number of group shows, and his images have been on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (rental gallery), the Gallery at First Canadian Place, the Northumberland Art Gallery , and others. His work is represented in many private collections, and has been selected by a number of prominent designing firms including Brian Gluckstein Design Planners, Michael Doyle, and Judith Copeland.

Steve is a photographic “purist” and is unique in that he almost never uses special filters or digital manipulation of his images. The images are candid, captured spontaneously just as he saw them. Steve’s images have been described as “atmospheric, romantic, and abstract,” and are printed as either Cibachromes (positive prints from slides) or as Giclees (printed onto water colour paper).

Steve has an eclectic background in the performing arts. A former professional jazz dancer, Steve has also played clarinet with a number of local ensembles, teaches wine appreciation, and has publicly performed as a magician. For many years Steve was a fixture both locally and nationally on Canadian television and radio as a writer and host of news features, magazine columnist and writer-host of educational videos.

Steve was born “somewhere between Mozart and Madonna”. His wife is Dr. Jocelyn Pearce, a Port Hope dentist who is currently President-Elect of the Ontario Dental Association. Steve and Jocelyn have two sons, Matthew and Greg, and live with Sally the Wonder Dog and Simon and Henry, the world’s cutest but most neurotic cats.

“… Levinson has used his camera as cameras often want to be used: as creators of dreamscapes, as traps for fugitive weathers and atmospheres we can hardly see, but only sense.”

John Bentley Mays
National Post
May 5/2001

Steve Levinson was born in Toronto and lived in the Beach area of the city before packing up family, camera, and pooch and moving to the beautiful hills of Northumberland just north of Port Hope, a quaint and friendly town about 60 miles east of Toronto.

He originally took up photography in the 1970s, and won awards in his first two competitions. In 1980 he created musical photographic productions that were presented publicly to a number of prominent organizations. After putting his camera aside for a number of years in order to follow other artistic pursuits, Steve decided to return actively to the art of photography in the fall of 2000. He has since had three solo exhibits, two at the Painted City Gallery in Toronto , and one at the Left Bank in Port Hope.