Stephen Crowley began his career as a photographer in 1972 during a stint at a community newspaper in Jupiter, Florida. Mr. Crowley moved to Washington DC in 1986 where he covered the remaining two years of the Reagan presidentcy and the Iran-Contra hears on Capitol Hill for The Washington Times. In 1992 Crowley moved to The New York Times Washington bureau covering The White House, Congress and was embedded in the Dole, Bush, Kerry, McCain and Romney campaigns. In his personal work Crowley searches for morsels of humanity, irony and humor, collecting images of the country's character as hinted by physical structures, shifting light patterns and happenstance.
On Feb. 5, 2002, Crowley was cited as "Photographer of the Year" by the White House News Photographers' Association for a portfolio that included his essays "Voices of Afghanistan" and "A Day in the Life of President Bush." In 2001 Mr. Crowley was part of a team at the New York Times that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, "How Race is Lived in America."
In 2002 the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography was awarded to Crowley and four other photographers at The New York Times for work produced during the war in Afghanistan. That same year he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C. In 2005 American Photo Magazine included Crowley on its list of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.
His personal photography has been exhibited in shows at the Library of Congress, The National Geographic Society and the Corcoran Art Museum.
PROJECTS
Time Spent: Florida 1972-1982
If I Were Your King: Politics 1980-2016
Objects and Equations
Smoke-Filled Rooms 2012
A documentary, presented in serial form, that strives to move beyond restrictions, spin and control of the contemporary American political game in order to present its processes and consequences.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/lens/SFR.pdf
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
2014 72 Grams per Pixel, Bethesda, MD
2010 OBJECTS + EQUATIONS, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach FL.
2008 The Art of Politics; Rosetta Stone Fine Art Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2008 Black and White and Read All Over; H&F Fine Arts, Mount Ranier, MD
2002 Afghanistan, photographs by Stephen Crowley and Simon Norfolk; Arthur Griffin Center of Photography
1998 Twin Peeks; West Palm Beach
1998 Report. Washington Center for Photography, Washington DC
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Southeast Museum of Photography
Library of Congress
Griffin Center of Photography
President Bill Clinton
President George W. Bush
CAREER HISTORY
The New York Times
Staff photographer 1992-2017
-Reporting on all areas of politics; primarily on Capitol Hill and The White House.
-Presidential campaigns, 1992 to 2016
-Self-assigning political coverage
-Editing and producing photo essays/stories
-producing and editing video short documentaries
Corcoran School of Art+Design
Instructor, Documentary photography 2002-2006
The Washington Times, 1986-1992
The Miami Herald 1984-1986
The Palm Beach Post and Evening Times, 1979-1984
AWARDS
Pulitzer 2002 Feature Photography
Staff of The New York Times
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2002-Feature-Photography
http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6499
White House Photographer of the Year, 2002
Honorary Doctor of Photography, Corcoran College of Art+Design, 2002
LECTURES
University of Texas, Distinguished Lecturer Series, 1999
NPPA Northern Short Course, 2009
Southeast Museum of Photography, 2010
Northern Short Course, 2011
Columbia University Grad School of Journalism, 2012
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, 2013
Fotofusion, 2013
South Dakota State University, Brookings Art Council, 2018
Schuneman Symposium at Ohio University, 2018
INTERVIEWS
CSPAN Washington Journal, Jan. 3, 1999
“Photojournalism”
CSPAN Photographer’s Perspective, Nov. 24, 2004
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Photographers
CSPAN Photographing the White House, March 14, 2005
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Photographi
University of California: White House Communications Operation: Stephen Crowley, May 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkwtSDJ-UY
FEATURE SHOOT, January 4, 2009
http://www.featureshoot.com/2009/01/stephen-crowley-new-york/
LENS: The Idiosyncratic Eye of Stephen Crowley June 21, 2010
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/showcase-175/?_r=0
Visura Magazine October 10, 2010
http://www.visuramagazine.com/stephen-crowley-voices-of-afghanistan
He was a founding staffer, Editorial Cartoonist and illustrator for The Hill newspaper in Washington D.C. from 1994 to 2000.
While with the Copley News Service he produced a twice- weekly comic, The Crowley Chronicle and later, Artropolis, a weekly cartoon commentary, for The Palm Beach Post.
He has illustrated ten books, most recently “I Dink Therefore I Am - Coming to grips with my Pickleball addiction” with writer Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino and is currently writing and illustrating two children's books.
In addition to political cartooning, Crowley teaches painting and figure drawing at the New Studio for the Visual Arts in Jupiter, Florida. He paints in oils and acrylic and sculpts in all media, including bronze at The Hunt Club, his studio in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Recent clients include the Cox Media Group, The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach ArtsPaper and the Palm Beach Theater Guild.
CSPAN Washington Journal, APRIL 14, 1995
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4801850/user-clip-hill-cartoon-span
All photographs, images and artwork are the copyright of Patrick Crowley, Stephen Crowley and/or The New York Times Co. No photograph, image or artwork may be reproduced without the permission of Patrick Crowley, Stephen Crowley and/or The New York Times Co.