Steve Fitzpatrick

Children

My nephew, Daniel, who was born four months premature, reaches to clutch his father's index finger near the end of his first month in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City.
   
A wide-eyed Abigail looks intently into my camera lens.
   
On the beach in Water Mill, New York, Kiana was keen to bury her friends in the sand.
     
  
With the beach as a backyard in Condado, Puerto Rico Claudia was never far from the sand and always happy to have it between her toes.
   
In the pool at Isabela, Puerto Rico's Villa Montana resort, Claudia was right in her element.
   
Suspended as if in space, Shannon enjoys the cool waters of the pool at the Crestview Swim & Tennis Club in Summit, New Jersey. Client: Masterfile
     
  
During a class with surf instructor Fernando Alvarez, Ignacio looks cool as a cucumber as he stylishly slides down the face of this wave at Pine Grove beach in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
   
Having satiated his surfing jones, Ignacio is all smiles on the beach at Pine Grove.
   
Luis Diego delivers a pitch to his father, Francisco, on the beach in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
     
  
Claudia Alonso and Pia Maria Montilla watching their little brothers surf.
   
Advertising campaign for back to school polo shirts. Client: Hanes
   
Advertising campaign for back to school polo shirts. Client: Hanes
     
  
Advertising campaign for back to school polo shirts. Client: Hanes
   
How can a photographer not direct his camera at his nephews and nieces?
   
Despite a recent face plant this young Greenlander could not be kept from practicing his spear throwing on the shoreline behind town at low tide. Client: SURFER Magazine
     
  
A young Greenlander displays the eye of the whale fishermen had landed and were butchering on the rocky shoreline. Client: SURFER Magazine
   
Puerto Rican wonderkid, Hector Santamaria, during a lifestyle shoot for advertising in Eastern Surf Magazine. Client: Hurley Int'l.
   
On the beach in front of his Condado condominium building, Tommy is all smiles. Client: Mundo Rad
     
  
Does it get any more innocent-looking?
   
Girls will be girls and play with their hair.
   
A young Nicaraguan boy who helped out with kitchen chores at the Hospedaje 28 guest house. Client: Surfing Magazine
     
  
A member of the Llorens Torres housing project little league team looks on from the dugout as his team competes.
   
A group of boys from Bathsheba, Barbados form a pick-up cricket team. Client: Surfing Magazine
  
A boy looks out on the street from his home on the main drag in the small town of Mancora. Client: Surfing Magazine
     
  
Cuban school boys flood the street as classes are let out. Client: FotoImagen
   
Peering through the trellis of a beachfront cafe, this young bajan boy was hard to ignore. Client: Surfing Magazine
   
During a break from chasing hurricane swell on Barbados this face emerged from the shadows of a coastal town's bread shop. Client: SURFER Magazine
     
  
Little did we know when this photo was captured that Paulo would turn into such a rabid water rat.
   
Winnie The Pooh characters are popular with toddlers for Halloween. Client: Masterfile
   
Winnie The Pooh hunny pot. Client: Masterfile
     
  
Summer days on the Jersey Shore are full of smiles.
   
The first member of my family's next generation.
   
All american suburban kids in Summit, New Jersey. Client: Masterfile
     
  
Barefoot and smiling. Life for New Jersey kids in summer. Client: Masterfile
  
Backyard bubbles keep Abigail occupied for hours. Client: Masterfile
   
Practically a Gerber baby.
     
  
My nephew, Daniel, again. He's come a long way from the intensive care unit for prenature babies.
   
Jonathan is a surf-stoked kid from Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina that I encountered on a personal trip to El Salvador.
   
Jacob about to burst into tears.
     
  
Billy was a neighbor growing up in New Jersey who would spend entire summer days in our pool. I was between the 8th and 9th grades when I captured this image with my Pentax ME, and it was the first image that sparked my passion for photography.