He is now a highly-regarded photographer/filmmaker, bringing together his strategic advertising experience with his fabulous eye for composition, to make him quite the unique image maker.
His areas of focus are still-life and portraiture; but his unique aesthetic, which has a strong sense of the minimal and the graphic, also translates to his lifestyle photography.
“I see my task as bringing a calm simplicity to a world over-burdened with images. Everything in the frame is there for a reason, or it shouldn’t be there.”
Stuey works internationally, but is based on a hill in West Yorkshire. 
“I use filmmaking compositional techniques to direct the eye across the frame to imbue the still image with movement, or narrative, or emotion. It may not look like it, but a lot of work goes into the reduction of visual stimuli in an image. I’m in search of a result that has a potency, a concentrated feel.”
Stuey also works as a consultant creative director, linking brands, ideas and language with his love of the visual world.
"Photography and my love for it has informed so many aspects of my life. Photography forces you to slow down. Only by slowing down do you truly see. 
Our current culture has us thinking life is a collection of big moments—the Instagram-able, statement events. Of course they are great, but real life is what happens in between. That’s where the stories exist if you care to slow down and watch them unfold. 
Photography teaches us that stories don’t end. They evolve. And that at any given moment you only see a snapshot in the continuum. There is hope in that."
If you'd like to keep up with his latest images and thoughts then follow his photoblog at fotostuey.com

Exhibitions:
2014 Still in Motion - The Upstairs Gallery, Frensham
2014 Art in the workplace - Guildford Arts/Baker Tilly, Guildford
2014 London Life - LANG, Art Bermondsey, London
2015 Simple Local - Riverside Gallery, Farnham
2016 Corners and curves - The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Publications:
2014 Adore Noir Magazine - Portfolio of 2014 review
Events:
2014 Ways to make a photobook that doesn't fall apart - Akina Books, London
2015 The art of the nude, with Ralph Gibson, Vancouver







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