Light Industry is very pleased to announce that Steve Pyke has been made an M.B.E. in The Queen's Birthday Honours list.

The honour is awarded to Steve for his services to the arts over a long and distinguished career.

Steve Pyke commented:
" I am delighted to receive this award. Portraiture is still very much the backbone of my work. When you think of the number of faces in the world and that no two are exactly the same, that the face is not just inherited but evolves through age and experiences, then the creative possibilities are limitless.

I love the constant challenge of looking into another's eyes, delving into the familiar and unfamiliar, seeing beauty in strangeness and vice versa. My study of who or what a person is through their face, hands or body has taken me all over the world. Through this I started to accumulate a larger body of work, photographing cities, landscapes, or just abstract elements that attracted my curiosity along the way...from shadows in a New York doorway to raging seascapes off the Irish coast.

Expressing these things through photography is still a big buzz for me."

Simon Crocker, Director of Light Industry added "We are delighted that Steve's outstanding contribution to his field of the arts has been recognised in this way. He has been tireless over the years in his continual striving for excellence and we are proud to represent him worldwide in his endeavours"