Tom Steele has been recognized as a master of landscape photography, receiving numerous awards for his work. His work celebrates the beauty of the East End's diverse landscape, capturing the beautiful vistas of Long Island's East End.

Published in many periodicals, his work has been featured in the New York Times, The North Atlantic Review, and locally in the East Hampton Star, Dan's Paper, The Independent, The Southampton Press and many other publications.  

Tom's photographs have been exhibited at numerous local museums and galleries including Guild Hall, The Parrish Art Museum, South Fork Natural History Museum, Southampton Historical Museum, Art League of Long Island,  Jeanie Tengelson Gallery, Gallery North, Wallace Gallery, Grenning Gallery and the Elaine Benson Gallery among others.  His work has also been featured at retail art exhibition spaces at Sylvester & Co. At Home in Amagansett and Tiffany & Co. in East Hampton.

Tom has worked closely with land conservation groups recognizing the close relationship between artists, the landscape and the groups that seek to preserve nature. He has worked with The Peconic Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy in producing many art exhibitions that promote an awareness and an appreciation of the natural beauty and fragility of our landscape and ties it to the important work of the conservation groups. In this effort, Tom has appeared on numerous television and radio programs.

Tom is currently working on a book of his East End Landscape photography featuring backstories, personal perspectives, geology, history and more on the locations he has photographed. In addition he has started working on a second book that explores the forest understory of Maines’ Acadia National Park. The understory is a beautiful, fascinating and complex world of micro eco-systems that supports over 800 different plants. It's a fragile environment where the forests of tomorrow take root.   

If you are up early you might catch Tom at his office which is comprised of the ocean beaches, farmlands, dunes, bays, salt marshes, wetlands and the coastal and maritime forests of the East End.