BIO
Kalin Steen is a documentary cinematographer and director working in the borderlands of the American Southwest. His photography and footage have been acquired and featured by Patagonia. He is a subcontracted director and producer on an upcoming Smithsonian documentary series and a recipient of the Human Nature film grant by Earthrise x Earth Alliance. His work is grounded in a curiosity for exploring human perspectives.
STATEMENT
Raised in the rural arizona borderlands, I grew up in a household of artisans, and wandering contrarians of society. Never having gone to school, I was raised with a reliance to carve my own path. Every opinion was a strong one, there was never any creation that couldn’t be further tweaked or improved, I carry that with me in my work.
I eventually landed in documentary work, and for the first time, it felt like exactly where I was supposed to be. I try to choose stories that follow my curiosity for the gritty outcasts, the residents of the idiosyncratic, and the invisible philosophers of our modern day.
