As storytellers, we work every day to share the present moment, what’s happening in the here-&-now. But in many ways, we strive to also preserve visual histories for our client-family. At Steven James, we understand that stories serve as context for today, yet also help us to reckon with our past as we venture into tomorrow.

It was slightly after the noon-hour on a cold January day just two weeks ago that most of us came to know Amanda Gorman for the first time.

Have you ever heard the expression, “Sometimes it’s not the wand, it’s the magician”? Well, nothing brings that colloquial saying to life quite like the age-old platform vs. content argument.

The setting may be a different table, some of the regular cast may be absent or remote, the script flipped & the story not quite perfect. But this year we give thanks because we made it here together.