John Sturr | Lifestyles Photography
The Quick Survey
- Name / Business Name: John Sturr Photographer
- Located in: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Started: 2009
- Status: Part Time
- Types of Photography: Street, Freelance, Wedding, Architecture
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: Nikon D3s, anything approaching f1.4
- Interesting Personal Fact: I married the love of my life two weeks before leaving for an Army combat tour to Baghdad, Iraq.
Find out more
Main Site: www.jsturr.com
Blog: www.jsturr.com/blog
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jsturr/
Short Bio: I come from a family of four brothers and grew up in both Chicago Ill, and Pentwater Michigan. The
military took me to Ft. Lewis Washingtion where I turned 30 and entered into the 2nd Ranger Battalion for a little
over three years. After the Army, Pocatello, Idaho is where I finished my Mass Communication degree and where I met my wife
Madeline Ritchie, eventually settling in Salt Lake after fishing a combat tour in Baghdad. I'm 41 now.
I work as a draftsman for FFKR Architects - www.ffkr.com.
Photography started as a creative outlet and has evolved into something unexplainable
for me. I really enjoy just grabbing my gear and shooting for myself -- and most of my images reflect that. Unpaid
work is always the most enjoyable as you don't feel the pressure to perform and it just happens, or it doesn't. Street
Photography could become quite addicting also, if we lived in NYC; upon visiting there I quickly became hooked.
Recently I've ventured into some paid work - portraits, weddings, and some light commercial Architectural assignments.
My style is a bit geometric and maybe even constrained, or serious. Influences come from the masters of Bauhaus,
Lissitzky, and the Russian Constructivist's and I rely heavily on visualizing a grid when I view the frame. I very
much like creating tension with either the placement of the subject or with the strength or weakness of the camera
and equipment. Lens Bokeh becomes a powerful aspect of some of the favorite images, along with geometric framing.
Photography is always very challenging and rewarding when it all comes together - I'm constantly learning and glad to be
apart of the Salt Lake group of photographers of where I met Scott Jarvie and friends.
Here is some of his other stuff he does. Who is that handsome devil on the right?
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May 31st, 2010 - 09:18
John, you do such beautiful work!