ABOUT STEVE

Steve Liss has been a photojournalist, filmmaker, educator and advocate for youth. For 25 years he was an award-winning photographer at TIME magazine, where over 40 of his photographs appeared on the cover. His book, NO PLACE FOR CHILDREN: VOICES FROM JUVENILE DETENTION, won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the World Understanding Award from Pictures of the Year International. He has taught at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago and Endicott College. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker,  he has photographed, produced and directed films for Discovery Channel and PBS, and his most recent film, 16 and Recovering, aired as a four part docu-series on MTV.  The film depicted a year in the life of a public high school helping teenagers overcome substance abuse disorder. It was critically well received, with Forbes describing it as, "thoughtful, accurate and heart wrenching." Liss is a 4000 hour private pilot, who often flew himself to stories here in the United States, north of the Arctic Circle and across the outback of Australia.