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| Long Island Artist - Steve G. Pappas |
 My name is Steve G. Pappas. I was born in 1945 on the island of Manhattan, and lived as far uptown as you can go, in the wonderful neighborhood of Inwood/Washington Heights. I am first generation American on my father's side, and second generation on Mom's. Her parents emmigrated to NYC circa 1925. The first thing Grandpa bought when he came over around 1915 was a Kodak camera; a fold up model with a bellows and a simple prism viewfinder with which he captured many hundreds of pictures. He taught me how to use it...thus the fun and interest in photography
within me was born. I have come to believe that the secret in the art of taking good pictures lies simply in the understanding of the truism that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and that it works both ways: that which is absorbed, and that which is reflected...and that most of all...every picture tells a story. I didn't realize how deep it could be..until I answered the call to work at Ground zero three days after the tragedy.Within the fifteen days, for sixteen hours per day during the overnight hours, I managed to take around two dozen pictures . . . qualifying myself as a documentarian of sorts. From then on I kept a journal which I perused all the old pictures and the stories that were told behind them, and found somewhat miraculously I became acutely aware of my remembrances. I am now in the process of telling it all in the book I am writing. My wife Julie and I have been here on Long Island since 1988 having raised two sons along the way.
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