STEVE EIRSCHELE
Steve Eirschele’s passion is fine art printmaking. He is a professional engineer by degree and an avid photographer for over 40 years combining technical skills with creative images. He began his photography adventure during college choosing black & white images, which has always been and still is his passion. Steve designed and built three of his own wet chemistry darkrooms spending hundreds of hours further perfecting his camera and darkroom skills. He progressed from 35mm to medium format, a huge leap in producing fine art photographs. He continued to attend many workshops and field outings while displaying and selling his work in public and corporate galleries. Steve reluctantly entered the digital photography age, giving up his state-of-the-art wet chemistry darkroom for a ‘lightroom’. He once again realized significant opportunities to improve his fine art photography, always perfecting and loving the printed image.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
1977 University of Wisconsin - Madison, selected for Student Art Exhibit at Memorial Union, B&W photo titled 'Dussenberg'
1976 - 1978 Member then acting President - Badger Photographic Society
1993 - Exhibit twelve framed silver halide B&W images at coffee shop in Pioneer Square, Seattle
1994 Sale of 'Column at Christchurch' to Boston Scientific during corporate display of 15 B&W silver halide photographs
2005 - 2010 Display and sale of three B&W silver halide photographs to Lease Crutcher Lewis
2019 - 2020 Member, Kirkland Art Walk Committee
Summer 2019 - Downtown Kirkland, exhibit my work at weekly Marina Park market and during private and public showings including Sotheby's International Realty
June 2019 thru Dec 2021 - Member Whidbey Art Gallery in Langley Washington
March thru May 2022 - Display 30 framed Color and B&W images at Evergreen Medical Center
May 2022 to Present - Display 15 framed color images at Evergreen Medical Center
Feb 2022 - Two photographs won awards and were published in Black & White magazine
October 2024 - Won Exposure One's Photographer of the Year in landscape. Two other submitted photos were nominated in the fine art category.
January 2025 - Selected by Praxis Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, B&W printed photo on exhibit
January 2025 - LA Photo Curator, First Place in the Mindful Landscape Exhibition