Check Out Lyn Stevens’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lyn Stevens

Hi Lyn, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
This journey has been a long and winding road, with a few “S” curves thrown in along the way! I fell in love with the mystique of radio, while I was still attending grade school. After high school, I enrolled at a radio broadcasting school in Madison, WI and then went full-time into radio after graduating. Over the years, I worked a variety of radio jobs from telemarketing, to copywriting, to being on-air. Eventually I felt like I had stagnated at my job and that there really wasn’t any more room to grow, so I decided to move to Nashville, TN to pursue the artist management end of the music industry. I fell into music photography, something that still kept me around music. I ended up going on two international tours with an indie blues/rock artist as the tour photographer and road manager.. When the Covid-19 Pandemic arrived, the music industry shut down and I lost all of my streams of income. I started working from home at a Covid-19 Tracing job, which kept a roof over my head, and also made me feel like I was making some kind of difference, while the entire world grappled with a fast spreading unknown virus.. I was like many, trying to figure out what direction to move in, so I spent a lot of time going out for walks and taking photos. this led me to the world of fine art Once events and gatherings started to resume, I began applying for art markets as a vendor, and this brings me to where I am at now in life.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I feel like everything I have ever tried to do, or have done in some capacity, was always the hard way. I left radio to pursue artist management, a field I did not have any experience in, so essentially, I started over when I moved to Nashville. Again, when I went into Photography, i to a degree started over, and then Fine Arts Photography was another field I really did not know anything about. So though everything I have done thus far truly does intersect in some way, I have started over each time I have shifted my focus in the creative arts.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I specialize in Fine Art Photography with an emphasis on music and on Nashville and these are the subjects that I am starting to become known for. I am very proud of the fact, that I have accomplished every goal that I have set out to accomplish, in the two years that I have been immersed in the world of fine arts. I do not believe that I am the best photographer out there, but I do believe that I have been gaining traction with everything I have done, because when things get hard and others stop, I keep going. This mindset has allowed me to accomplish some pretty big things in a short amount of time. I have my work featured in a professional soccer stadium, I have had solo exhibits, my work is now being sold in a retail store, and I just finished an application for an artist residency.

Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
Though cell phone cameras have pretty much removed the need to have a bunch of expensive camera gear, I think the biggest shift in photography is AI. though Ai can be an incredible tool used in editing,, the questions are still out there on how this technology might obliterate original creativity as a whole,and also raises questions about intellectual property rights, just to name a few.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: lyn.stevens
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LynStevensPhotography23/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyn-stevens-0a26b94