Stephen Wilkes
Since opening his studio in New York City in 1983, photographer Stephen Wilkes has built an unprecedented body of work and a reputation as one of America’s most iconic photographers, widely recognized for his fine art, editorial and commercial work.
His photographs are included in the collections of the George Eastman Museum, James A. Michener Art Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Dow Jones Collection, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Jewish Museum of NY, Library of Congress, Snite Museum of Art, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Museum of the City of New York, 9/11 Memorial Museum and numerous private collections. His editorial work has appeared in, and on the covers of, leading publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Time, Fortune, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, and many others.
Wilkes’ early career interpretations of Mainland China, California’s Highway One, and impressionistic “Burned Objects” set the tone for a series of career-defining projects that catapulted him to the top of the photographic landscape.
Day to Night, Wilkes’ most defining project, began in 2009. These epic cityscapes and landscapes, portrayed from a fixed camera angle for up to 30 hours capture fleeting moments of humanity as light passes in front of his lens over the course of full day. Blending these images into a single photograph takes months to complete. Day to Night has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning as well as dozens of other prominent media outlets and, with a grant from the National Geographic Society, was recently extended to include America’s National Parks in celebration of their centennial anniversary and Bird Migration for the 2018 Year of the Bird.
Day to Night : In the Field with Stephen Wilkes was exhibited at the The National Geographic Museum in February, 2018. Day to Night will be published by TASCHEN as a monograph in 2019.
Wilkes was a speaker at the TED2016: Dream Conference on his Day to Night series. In 2017 Wilkes was commissioned by the US Embassy, Ottawa to create a Day to Night photograph of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Wilkes’ extensive awards and honors include the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Photographer of the Year from Adweek Magazine, Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2004 Lucie Award, TIME Magazine Top 10 Photographs of 2012, Sony World Photography Professional Award 2012, Adobe Breakthrough Photography Award 2012 and Prix Pictet, Consumption 2014. His board affiliations include the Advisory Board of the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications; Save Ellis Island Board of Directors, on which he served for 5 years; and the Goldring Arts Journalism Board.
Wilkes was born in 1957 in New York. He received his BS in photography from Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a minor in business management from the Whitman School of Management in 1980.
Photography & Works
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Albatross, Steeple Jason, Falkland Islands, Day to Night
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America’s Cup, San Francisco, Day to Night
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Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, Day to Night
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Blue Lagoon, Iceland, Day to Night
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Brooklyn Bridge, Day to Night
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Central Park Snow, NYC, Day to Night
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Central Park, View from Essex House, NYC, Day to Night
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Cherry Blossoms, National Mall & Memorial, Washington DC, Day to Night
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Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, Day to Night
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Detian Falls, China, Day to Night
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Eifel Tower, Paris, Day to Night
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Flamingos, Lake Bogoria, Kenya, Africa, Day to Night
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Gramercy Park, NYC, Day to Night
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Grizzly Bears, Bella Coola, British Columbia, Day to Night
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Ipanema Beach, Rio, Brazil, Day to Night
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Kumbh Mela Festival, Haridwar, India, Day to Night
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC, Day to Night
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Millennium Park, Chicago, Day to Night
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Northern Gannets, Bass Rock, Scotland, Day to Night
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Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Day to Night
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Ottawa, Canada 150, Day to Night
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Palio, Siena, Italy, Day to Night
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Park Avenue, NYC, Day to Night
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Polar Bears, Churchill, Manitoba, Day to Night
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