Steve Dozier is an American photographer, visual coach, collegiate educator, and editor. He has photographed many situations in many places in hismore than45-year career.He was fortunate to have spent about four years-from late 1979 to1983-exploring, photographing, assimilating into, and being nurtured on Miami Beach. There, he discovered amazing cultures, values, and perspectives.
Dozier is forever entranced in photographing, always with a particular humanistic approach. It is with photographs he is most fulfilled. Photographic adventures have more recently taken him to Nepal, India, China, and many other places. And often back to the current evolution of Miami Beach and Miami.
"Wherever I photograph,I seek to be imbedded as close as possible to people-to merge, experience, and visually record humanity-all the while respecting the deeply personal spaces of my fellow humans.” His large photographic portfolio includes Haitian and Cuban immigration, deadly riots,New York high fashion, presidential campaigns, and many smaller private moments. He was a staff photographer for the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times, and other newspapers including the Gainesville (FL) Sun, and Independent Florida Alligator. He has been published in Life, Newsweek,and other national magazines. Dozier was an editor for newspapers including The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press,Miami Herald, Dallas Times Herald, and Fort Worth Star Telegram.He has been an editor on five projects that won the Pulitzer Prize for various journalists, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. He majored in journalism and minored in fine art photography. His master’s degree from the University of Kentucky is in Information Sciences. Dozier was on the journalism faculty at the University of Kentucky, and later was Lecturer and Photojournalism Program Director at the University of Georgia. Students from both programs won top national collegiate photojournalism competitions. He has been active in historic preservation projects in his ancestral hometown of Stanford, the second oldest city in Kentucky. He is an inquisitive world traveler, avid sailor, and lives with his wife, Laura, a master’s prepared critical care nurse/educator, and their dogs Ruby, Royce and Maggie, near Ft. Myers, Florida. He has three grown daughters: Katie, Lee, and Lisa
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Modest cars line the Art Deco streets of Miami Beach in the early 1980s.
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Miami Beach residents are up early to get baked goods from a neighborhood bakery.
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Two young lovers embrace on a South Beach bench.
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Joe 'Big Daddy' Flanigan shows off his weight loss in front of his restaurant.
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Boxer works out at the iconic 5th Street Gym on Miami Beach.
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While waiting for a public bus, one woman devours a newspaper. Newspapers were a widely popular medium of the era.
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Ringling Brothers chimpanzee shares a moment with a circus goer on Miami Beach.
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The artist Christo unveils his plans to surround the Biscayne Bay spoil islands with brilliant pink fabric. Some say this was the beginning of "the arts in Miami."
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A Ringling Brothers circus worker takes a break as the circus comes to town.
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This picture represents converging ethnicities. A Mariel, Cuba street sweeper is hired to clean while people of various backgrounds lumber around.
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Resident couple strolling arm in arm past the Park Central Hotel.
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