Steve Connors /
Steve Connors was born in Sheffield, England. He began taking photographs while serving as a British soldier in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s. After leaving the military in 1984 he worked for London newspapers and housing charities, but maintained a preference for photographing the quirkiness of British life.
At the end of 1989 Connors started traveling - first to Czechoslovakia as the communist government fell and then to Sri Lanka in 1990. Connors spent the early 1990s covering the wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia and later spending time in Russia and the former Soviet Union as the euphoria of a new age gave way to the miserable realities of economic meltdown. Connors has worked for most of the worlds' newspapers and magazines including Time, Newsweek and The New York Times in the United States; The Guardian, The Observer and The Telegraph in London and in Europe he has worked for Der Spiegel, Stern and Paris Match among others.
Connors spent fifteen months from November 2001 on in Afghanistan and moved onto Iraq as the 2003 invasion was underway. Of the fourteen months Connors worked in Iraq – from April 2003 to June 2004 – ten months were devoted to filming the documentary Meeting Resistance which he co-reported, directed and produced with fellow photojournalist Molly Bingham. The film, an intimate exploration of the motivations and methodology of Iraqi anti-occupation fighters was Connors’ directorial debut. Meeting Resistance was released in theatres across the United States in 2007.
Since finishing touring with the documentary Connors has turned his attention to bringing his considerable experience to the field of conflict prevention and resolution.
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