Stephen McGee

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"My work to date has only been an attempt to create the content my dreams yield." From a recent blogpost from McGee's blog.

Stephen McGee is a professional photo/video journalist who has traveled the world focusing on topics that relate to environment and human interest, from exposing human rights violations and humanitarian crises, to globalization and clean energy. His multimedia work has been shown on/in sites/magazines including nytimes.com, viiphoto.com, washingtonpost.com, freep.com, usatoday.com, npr.org, People Mag, Der Spiegel.
He is currently working on a documentary on human trafficking in Eastern Europe.
Throughout the 28 countries he has traveled, McGee has lived the lives of his subjects to make certain that the stories he told were the truest to their reality. For two years he worked at the Detroit Free Press making short films on deadline where he was the photographer, producer and editor. He would shoot both stills and video for the multimedia pieces.
Building upon the 174-year history of the Detroit Free Press, he gained a new fresh approach to visual journalism. McGee focused on localizing and vocalizing stories and scenarios representing life from the smallest daily aspect to the moments that live in our memories forever because of their stature and importance. In the two years after McGee helped start the multimedia department led by Nancy Andrews, the Detroit Free Press won 3 National Emmy Awards (in catorgies including, NY Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, Washington Post, LA Times, Frontline) and 5 Regional Emmys.

McGee felt called to leave the Free Press pursue God’s will in his life. McGee utilizes his visual skills to service those who are the forefront of positive global change, the front lines of local humanitarian endeavors, those that make a difference because that is what they were called to do. McGee documents with intention to distribute the voices of the fallen, the broken, the hopeful, the helped, the beneficiaries, to make certain that the citizens of developed nations will not go on in ignorance to the actuality that exists beyond the news, beyond the black type print or LCD that lays just past their cappuccino. Those are the voices he wants to amplify to the masses through the craftsmanship he practices.
He has worked with various non-profits in Ghana, El Salvador, Honduras (2008) Uganda (2005), Rwanda (2005), and in Vietnam (2005, 2006, 2008) and Angola (2004). In 2004 he worked with Health Care for the Homeless where a documentary he co-produced, River Haven, raised $30,000 for a local group of California homeless trying to break out of the street life in Ventura, CA. McGee has helped with his media in fund raising and awareness by Petra Nemcova, Bruce Willys, Wyclef Jean, Ukrainian rock and roll star Pavel Gudimov and Stephen Christian's Faceless International.
McGee lives a life dedicated to his Christian faith in Detroit, Michigan.