Monica S is a commercial and fine art photographer who
incorporates a rich cosmopolitan visual language into her imagery –
drawn from her time living in Australia, Spain, and Puerto Rico before
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setting up shop in New York City.
Twenty years experience in the field, and a desire to remain
artistically innovative in the swiftly changing industry, is apparent
in Monica's photographs of fashion, ewelry, cosmetics, luxury
products, and splashes. This approach extends to all media including
her new ventures in video. Her clients include Tiffany and Co.,
Cartier, Sothebyʼs, Gillette, Movado, Vogue, Crabtree and Evelyn, and Volkswagen.
Her “Purple Shoe Splash” was recently awarded at the APA|NY
Photo Contest and nominated for the 4th Annual Photography
Masters Cup in London. Her iconic “Hermes Scarf” horse image won
a place in the Advertising Photographers of America “Wraparound -
The Year in Vision”.
Monica's fine art photography focuses on a subject increasingly
integral to her life: horses. Stevensonʼs haunting black-andwhite equine photographs
gracefully capture horses in all of their disciplines, highlighting their relationship with their human companions and the environment. Her images are rich in feeling and
texture, reflecting the enduring romance of equestrian tradition. This
series of images – shot with a vintage Rolleiflex camera and printed
in a warm sepia tone – evokes an era of the hand- crafted image. It is
an art that reflects the historic bond between horse, man and nature.
Stevensonʼs fascination with the equestrian culture has taken her on
journeys around the world. Her series includes images of snow polo
in St. Moritz, summer polo in Montreal and Argentina, hunter/jumpers
from California, rejoneadores from Mexico, and wild horses in France.
Both Stevensonʼs commercial and fine art images reflect her singular
vision and creativity. Her passionate and elegant photographs have
already caused quite a stir in equine circles worldwide, with the series
being exhibited in galleries such as the Mercedes Benz Gallery in
NYC and the Katona Museum of Art, and as part of the permanent
collection in the Focus Gallery, London. She spent several weeks in
the summer of 2010 documenting the Arabian horse for H.H. Sheikh
Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.
