Steven D. Foster has exhibited his photography in major museums and galleries nationally for over forty years, including a seven-year retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.

After living and teaching photography in Milwaukee, WI for 33 years he and his wife Gloria moved to Canandaigua, NY (in 2008) which is in New York's beautiful Finger Lakes area. Foster's work is represented by the Spectrum Gallery in Rochester, NY.

Since 1999 Foster has created three major bodies of work inspired by the music and writings of Morton Feldman, the most recent (begun in 2007 and ongoing) is entitled "The Departing Landscape Project", a poetic contemplation on Man's alienation from Nature, and the decay of the natural world.  It consists of several related individual projects.

At the age of ten Foster had an epiphany in which he realized he was going to be a photographer.  He went on to study photography as a fine art.  He has studied with master teachers and photographers Minor White, Nathan Lyons, Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, Ray Metzker, Aaron Siskind, Wynn Bullock and Fredrick Sommer.   

Foster taught photography as a fine art at Georgia State University-Atlanta (1972-75) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1975-2007), where he created both the undergraduate and graduate sub-majors in photography.  Though now retired from teaching, Foster is actively engaged in his own creative process as a picture maker, and has joined his wife in some social activist work to protect the natural environment.