About
A working creative since 1975. The camera came first, the writing took the lead, and the digital products came next.
The Work
What I’m building right now
Available now · For working photographers
The Client Book
Twenty client emails, written so you don’t have to. Plus model and property releases in seven languages, fillable on any device and printable. If you scanned the code in the back of the book, this is the way in.
SoundStage Archives
The records that shaped you, kept the way they deserve. Album by album, on iPad and Mac.
Digital Asset Creation
Apps, photography, and original digital products built from fifty years of craft.
@SterlingTheOutlier
My Substack.
Essays on music and memory, from a fifty-year vantage point. The records, the years, and the parts most people leave out.
The Boomer Channel
Stories and straight talk for the generation that built the modern world.
Writer for Hire
Have pen, will write.
Speeches, forewords, editing, and reviews. Decades of putting the right words in the right order, sometimes under another name.
XtremeCamera
Open now.
A state-of-the-art photographer’s proofing site. Private client galleries, selections, comments, and print requests.
Contact
Commissions and collaborations.
Custom work, questions, or a project you have in mind. The studio reads every note.
Spinfuel
Independent consumer journalism that doesn’t pull punches, relaunched.
About
I’ve been a working photographer and writer since 1975. Concerts, portraits, and still life through the lens. Magazine covers on the drafting table. And ‘Life with Kosmo,’ a column read around the world for four years.
Somewhere along the way the writing took the lead. The tools kept changing. The instinct for the right image and the right sentence didn’t. Today both go into software and digital products.