Dream Team Series: Stan

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Welcome to the 1st installation of our Dream Team Blog Series. I think it’s important to talk a little bit about the young adults behind the scenes who work so hard to connect you to our efforts. When it comes to our Dream Team, there is more to us individually than meets the eye. Unless of course you’re Stanley Stevens. Because if you’re Stanley Stevens, then it’s ALL ABOUT how things meet the eye; it’s a truth you can experience in his photographs. He has a “real job” that he goes to with the word “Strategist” in the title, but he lives and breathes images. Moments. Still frames. Not to say that his life is boring, because if you thought that you’d be dead wrong. But he has a way of appreciating the moments that you might overlook yourself.

Perhaps an interesting fact about him, aside from the fact that he has little to no filter, is that he hasn’t always been him. No, really. He has convinced me over time that where he now sees color and shapes and patterns, he used to see black and white. I’m not talking about being color-blind! I’m talking about reinventing yourself. Challenging yourself to adjust your perception beyond the tangible. I mean, let’s be real: Stanley Stevens majored in economics (Bore). I don’t know how many econ lectures you’ve had to attend in your life, but take it from me – the difference between that and a photography class is astronomical.

But that’s our photographer. (He’s a little weird.) Why tell you all this? Because you need to take a minute and look back at some of the photographs we’ve got up here, visit his Facebook page, jump on his Flickr, check his L2G “52 Circles” project. You want to talk about getting personal? Each photograph tells a story. If you think it’s abstract, you’ve missed the smallest hint of color, the feeling of that moment, or the true subject which is (accurately) represented by the image in front of you.

Most of us have outside stories that vary from our roles in L2G, but with SS, you have a backstage pass into his every day life. It’s not JUST photographs. It’s in the photographs.

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