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May 20, 2024

Headshots with Shellie DiSalvo

Headshot season continues at Distant Era with a new batch for the fabulous Shellie DiSalvo! Longtime readers of The All Worlds Traveller may remember Shellie as “The Morrigan” from Distant Era’s last…
May 13, 2024

Headshots with Jennifer L. Mickelson

In late March, we made new headshots for Jennifer Mickelson—an actor, intimacy designer, playwright, SAFD Actor-Combatant, and more! Jen's worked with theaters all over Chicago, including Promethean Theatre Ensemble, Citadel Theatre, Broken…
April 29, 2024

What the Weird Sisters Saw, Archival Session

In early April Distant Era photographed the archival session for Idle Muse Theatre Company's production of What the Weird Sisters Saw. In this post, we share a selection of color and black-and-white…
April 22, 2024

Megan Wells as Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart

In February, professional storyteller Megan Wells did her first Distant Era session, in which we photographed four of the historical women she plays in her work: Abigail Adams, Florence Nightingale, Eleanor Roosevelt,…
October 9, 2023

Northlight Gala 2023

Distant Era photographs Northlight Gala 2023, hosted by Karen Jordan, Christian Farr, Julie Chernoff, with music by Andrew and Matt Mueller.…
July 31, 2023

The Duchess of Malfi Preproduction Photos

FOUR YEARS IN THE MAKING: After a global pandemic, production cancelations, and recasting, Distant Era captures final preproduction photos (and a few portraits) for Babes With Blades Theatre Company's 2023 production of…

The All Worlds Traveller

The All Worlds Traveller is an eclectic collection of thoughts, pictures, and stories from Distant Era. Illustrated with Distant Era art and photographs, these pages explore the stories and worlds of people beyond the here and now, and the people and creative processes behind such stories. This is a blog about photography and narrative; history and myth; fantasy, science-fiction, and the weird; creation and experience. This is a blog about stories.

Steven Townshend

Steven Townshend is a fine art/portrait photographer and writer with a background in theatre, written narrative, and award-winning game design. As a young artist, Steven toured the US and Canada performing in Shakespeare companies while journaling their moments on paper and film. In his transition from stage to page, Steven continued to work as a theatre photographer, capturing dramatic scenes while incorporating elements of costume, makeup, and theatrical lighting in his work. Drawn to stories set in other times and places, Steven creates works through which fellow dreamers and time travelers might examine their own humanity or find familiar comfort in the reflections of the people and places of a distant era.

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About a Distant Era

Distant Era creates fine art and portrait photographs of people and places from imagined pasts, possible futures, and magical realities. In collaboration with other artists, we evoke these distant eras with theatrical costume and makeup, evocative scenery, and deliberate lighting, and we enhance them with contemporary tools to cast these captured moments in the light of long ago or far away.

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