Stephen Dirado

Stephen DiRado began his professional photography career at the age of 17, as a freelance photographer for a Boston suburban newspaper. He then went on to study photography at the School of the Worcester Art Museum and then the Massachusetts College of Art. Bell Pond, the first in his many social projects, earned him recognition in 1984. Since then he has had exhibitions all across the country and has received awards and fellowships, most recently the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. He continues to explore the structures and complexities of human relationships through his long-term documentary projects.

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Stephen DiRado (born 1957) is an American photographer. His work is mostly black-and-white, and he makes frequent use of large-format cameras. He is most noted for his portraiture, night-astronomical photography, and semi-composed group photography, and for the extensive length of his projects.[1][2]

He has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[3] the Massachusetts Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artist Foundation.[4] He has taken part in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the DeCordova and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His work is held in both public and private collections and has appeared in print in The New York Times Magazine and Esopus.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer in photography within the Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.