The Wall 2.0: The Next Generation of Artist Steve Snider’s Textured, Urban-Inspired Works

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

An accomplished designer steps into his true passion, creating multi-layered artworks with bold color and carefully nuanced composition

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I’ve known Steve Snider for years…decades, actually. As a photographer, I’ve collaborated with Steve on countless book cover projects during his tenures as Art Director at Little, Brown & Co. in Boston and St. Martin’s Press in NYC.

In his designs, he was always keenly aware of composition, cropping and nuanced texture to distill the emotional content of a book down to a single visual story. So I wasn’t surprised to see him bring these qualities to his street photography of urban walls and surfaces (which profiled a few years back in an article titled ). What did surprise me was how lit up, even giddy, he would get while shooting, sharing and discussing