
Stevie Mann is a UK-based luxury hotel and travel photographer working with some of the world's most discerning properties across Europe, Africa and Asia. His clients range from small boutique camps and lodges to iconic resort destinations. Alongside his commercial work, Stevie is the co-founder of An Equal Share Photography, a social enterprise that donates 50% of net profit to indigenous communities in threatened landscapes. It is a business built on the same photographic values that also define his commercial work: compositional simplicity, respect for place, and the quiet power of a single image.
"When I was a boy I wanted to be a rally driver. I’d sit in the garden for hours making mudholes for my toy cars. Then, I decided to be a rock star. In my mind I could fill stadia, and I would practice my singing in the bath most nights. Later still, I wanted to be a secret agent. I would set up the camping mattress, with a stick propping it up, and launch dazzling sequences of kicks and chops on it until it fell over. Even now, when I’m absolutely sure no-one is looking, some unsuspecting sofa will come under stealthy attack.
In the end though, I did none of those things. I did something much better: I'd been taking photographs all along, ever since I was six, and I simply carried on doing it. I'm still at it, decades later. I meet the most wonderful people and see the most amazing things.
I'm so lucky to do it, and I love every minute of it."
Commissions have included: Soneva, Four Seasons, Six Senses, Singita, &Beyond, Asilia and multiple Relais et Chateaux properties.