steve colton

My Rocky and Bob (W/T) feature doc for PBS in the US is frozen. No green lights in a global pandemic.

Street Art is always evolving. Let’s hope more of it is used in the regeneration of my home city of Sheffield, UK.

It’s not easy keeping pace with new technology. If you are in the communication game it’s essential to keep on learning. I can’t see the point of producing films or photography if no one is going to see them. As a documentarian it is important to me to record everyday life just for the archives.…

NDR is coming to Kommune. Kurious Arts in association with ASK (Angel Street Kinema) have started to work with multi-media artists ready for the full opening of the old Castle House building in Sheffield. The phenomenal B & W fine art photographer NDR is preparing work in April for a early show. Enjoy a sneak…

Finally, It’s all coming together for the re-opening of Kommune & Kurious Arts in the Castlegate area of Sheffield City Centre. My role is to direct filmmaker evenings at my new intitiative. The Angel Street Kinema. “Pop-Up” cinema is what I used to volunteer at in York. Film at the Folk Hall was very succesful.…

In the UK from February 2020 to February 2021. My photographic diary charts a journey during my rehabilitation from a period of suffering very poor mental health. I have always used my photography as therapy for over 35 years. Looking through the lens of a camera distances me from my interior life of self doubt…

We all need an outlet for our frustrations during the pandemic of 2020. Whilst politicians fail us through their child like insistence on sticking to outdated ideologies, no matter how much serious damage they do to the citizens they serve….. We can carry on creating small joys with our art. I’m one of the lucky…

A photo exhibition and book produced in 2020 Photographs from Sheffield, Paris, Beunos Aries, Los Angeles, Birmingham, Taiwan & London. A percentage of profits from the exhibition and book go to support Mental Health work in Sheffield, UK. Curated by Steve Colton. Thanks go to all the artists involved in this 12 month project.

Photos from Steve Colton (UK), Sandra Selva (Argentina) & Nigel Dickinson(France). The start of a photography street project during the 2020 lockdown period. Freedoms & lives will be lost.

I love researching archive films & photos. I’m doing some now for a couple of films set in my home city of Sheffield, UK.