The Big Swing Story
Stephen Yadzinski is Big Swing. Steve earned his BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996. At 22, he became a master printmaker for a gelatin silver print house in New York City, working with clients including Annie Leibovitz, Flip Schulke, Antonin Kratochvil, and Steven Klein.
In 1998, Steve shifted his focus to commercial photography, working on location around the world as first assistant, gaffer, and digital conultant, building and perfecting images for clients like Chase Mastercard, Continental Airlines, Lincoln Financial Group, and Atlantis.
With ten years in the business, Steve saw that agencies and photographers needed photo illustration services that went beyond traditional retouching. Today, Big Swing offers photo illustration with a push: our unique blend of aesthetic talent, technical chops and knowledge of the industry.
Our services are tailored to agencies looking to better service their clients, maximizing advertising dollars and bridging the talent gap between original images and the finished product. We also serve some of today’s top fine art and documentary photographers, working as a partner to help them push their images to the next level.
Since 2001 Big Swing has created arresting imagery for clients including the Barbados Tourism Authority, Emirates, The Learning Channel, and Toyota. And we haven’t forgotten our fine art roots. We work with some of the world’s top photographers, including Joel-Peter Witkin and Kristen Ashburn.
When he’s not working with clients, Steve shares his technical and aesthetic expertise with other photographers and illustrators at the prestigious Santa Fe Workshops, where he teaches intermediate and advanced courses in digital illustration.
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