Oliver Steins was born in 1958 in Toronto of Latvian immigrant parents. Oliver credits his vision and ability to having grown up in a home where his father, a graphic artist, was always working on some artistic project. Oliver feels this constant exposure to his father’s art and to an artistic way of seeing the world has influenced his ability to see images that most would take for granted. Oliver is a self-taught photographer who feels that possibly this has allowed him to bring a fresh approach to his images and not be totally restricted by someone else’s vision.