In 2004, Steve Pyke joined the New Yorker.  ”Working as a staff photographer at the New Yorker magazine gives me the immediacy of making portraits and seeing them appear in an editorial context,” Pyke explains, “and this has always surprised and stimulated me.”  In tandem with his editorial photography, he has maintained a strong commitment to personally driven projects, including his portrait series documenting the world’s leading thinkers and philosophers.A common thread running through both Pyke’s editorial and personal work is his abiding interest in what a face can tell us.  ” The way we live our lives is etched into the landscape of our faces,” Pyke observes.  ”We create a face which which we live.”