Hello, I am Steven CW Taylor, known as The Time Thief, a cultural explorer and artist-entrepreneur based in Germantown, Philadelphia. My practice lives through Ubuntu Fine Art, the gallery I built as a living site of Cultural Exchange, where art, story, and community converge. Working in photography and printmaking, I treat the camera as a vessel of attention, a way of stilling time and, as my moniker suggests, stealing it for future generations. I work in large-format that reflects a disciplined patience, shaped by years as an engineer and by the steady study of place, culture, and lived experience. Guided by the spirit of Ubuntu, I see art as a relationship, each photograph an act of care, each exhibition a chance to meet others where they are. My ongoing explorations, including Threads of Blackness in Japan (2026), where I seek to weave together the dignity of Black Americans across place and cultures.
My Mission
To advance contemporary fine art photography through innovative exploration of temporal documentation and cultural preservation, developing new visual languages that contribute to ongoing artistic discourse while challenging conventional approaches to photographic representation. Through rigorous investigation of memory, identity, and contemporary life, my practice creates work that bridges technical excellence with conceptual sophistication, positioning photography as both cultural archive and artistic evolution. I am committed to pushing boundaries within the medium while building a sustainable artistic practice that contributes to the broader development of photographic art in the contemporary market.
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