Steven Bridges is the senior photographer for the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee. He became a full-time staff member in 2018 after a 17-year run as a full-time freelancer in the Knoxville, TN area. Before that he did newspaper work in his native Arkansas. Steven is a 1999 graduate of Arkansas State University and was a corporal in the United States Marine Corps. We talk about getting hi first camera, his up bring, his creative process and the photo world.