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Stephen Voss

@stephenvoss.bsky.social
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Photographer in Washington, DC. portfolio: www.stephenvoss.com writing/music/creativity: lightreadings.substack.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/10/2026
The people of Box Elder County banded together and have since won some significant victories. But their fight isn't over. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social, with photography and video by @stephenvoss.bsky.social:
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The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.
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Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What does it look like when data centers move into town? That's what a lot of Americans are wondering these days, and this VA county gives a glimpse. My @theverge.com feature on Data Center Alley is out now, with amazing visuals by @stephenvoss.bsky.social. Gift link www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Your future is in Virginia
If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A gift link to the NYT astounding, sometimes almost funny chronology of the first year of Kash Patel's FBI. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article)
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
He wasn't there with the permission of any law enforcement agents, but had gained the trust of the family who allowed him to be there. 2/2
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Just to clarify, Alan Diaz who made this photo for AP had spent months cultivating a relationship with the Gonzalez family. He was tipped off that the house was going to be raided and ran inside to be ready when authorities broke down the door. 1/2
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
20+ years ago when I was living in Portland, I took a photograph there that I loved that was lit by those neon signs. Guessing that wall of payphone is no longer there.
Portland Oregon's Union Station
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here's a litte thing about art, words, fall, nostalgia, baseball, lost innocence, and data centers -- all with a soundtrack included. Grateful to @stephenvoss.bsky.social and his photograph for taking me down this path. I hope you'll read -- and listen. open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...
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The Fall of...
Autumn always does this to me — twists my emotions, creates a sort of longing for bygone days, some unwanted acknowledgement of my mortality.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The print tear sheet remains unbeaten. Love this layout of my data center work in today’s Washington Lost.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Really proud to share this story I wrote, photographed and shot drone video for to show the cost of the unparalleled expansion of data centers in Northern Virginia to meet the demands of AI. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | What it looks like in the world’s data center capital
Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Charlottesville and UVA friends - my exhibit of data center photographs opens tomorrow! More info here: www.arch.virginia.edu/events/shado...
In the shadow of the Cloud exhibit at UVA
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
For the past two years, I've been photographing the data centers in northern Virginia, which has more of these buildings than anywhere else in the world. The exhibit opens tomorrow, more information here: www.arch.virginia.edu/events/shado...
In the Shadow of the Cloud - an exhibit at the UVA School of Architecture's Campbell Elmaleh Gallery
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Very excited to announce my collaboration with the University of Virginia's School of Architecture and MIST lab for their new exhibit, "In the Shadow of the Cloud" which opens tomorrow at the Elmaleh Gallery at UVA.
A historic African American cemetery in Manassas, Virginia. The cemetery was disturbed, with nearby trees cut down and gravestones toppled during construction of a nearby power substation, on February 13, 2025.A data center under construction in Sterling, Virginia.Data centers close to a housing development in Arcola, Virginia. The homes were built in 2018 and used to back up to farmland. In 2020, the construction of the data centers began. A data center under construction next to Sully Highlands Park, a large community area that includes a baseball field and soccer fields, in Herndon, Virginia.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Deeply grateful to Brian O'Neill for his thoughtful review of my book. "... I am at a loss to recall a book so expertly working with “a tone” within the context of the atmosphere of the object itself" photobookjournal.com/2025/05/23/s...
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Stephen Voss – The Haunting of Verdant Valley
Review by Brian O’Neill · Stephen Voss is a photojournalist. You may have seen his work and portraits in Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post Magazine, and more. As a critic and collector of photobo…
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A few images of the xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The data center has attracted controversy recently after it was discovered that they were operating far more gas turbines to provide power than they'd previously agreed to.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thanks for sharing this, Jason.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Photographs of the Project Stargate Data Center under construction in Abilene, Texas.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My drone footage of the first Project Stargate data center being built in Abilene, Texas, by OpenAI. When completed, it will be the largest data center in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiI...
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Stargate Data Center being built in Abilene, Texas
YouTube video by Stephen Voss
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A few photographs from my coverage of protests on the National Mall in DC yesterday where an estimated 100,000 people showed up to demonstrate against the Trump Administration's policies. for @theverge.com
Demonstrations protest on the National Mall in DC on April 5, 2025.Demonstrations protest on the National Mall in DC on April 5, 2025.Demonstrations protest on the National Mall in DC on April 5, 2025.Demonstrations protest on the National Mall in DC on April 5, 2025.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
So flippin’ cool, @robinsloan.com
Robin Sloan zine
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Happy to be in such great company in American Photography #40 and love having these two images in.
Cassidy Hutchinson and Bernie Sanders
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thanks Bob!
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The light hasn't changed in 160 years. I spent a morning in Mathew Brady’s old DC studio—the same place where Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant sat for portraits. lightreadings.substack.com/p/light-read...
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Photographs from a protest against Elon Musk outside of the US Department of Treasury building in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A few images from the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump in Washington, DC today, for @CNN.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Appreciate you sharing this, Chris. I’m sorry to have never met him, everyone who knew him spoke so highly of him.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Luke's story tells the real cost of that day and the remarkable story of an officer who loved the Capitol and was beloved by those who worked there.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Please read Luke Mullins' story about Capitol Police Officer Howie Liebengood, who took his own life on Jan. 9th, 2021. This is a story that could only be told with the commitment of family and I’m grateful for their trust and openness. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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What Really Happened with the First Officer Suicide After Jan. 6
Howie Liebengood killed himself three days after Jan. 6. His family has no doubt about what really killed him.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Huge thanks to the OG blogger, Jason Kottke for featuring my book. I spent two years photographing these bonsai trees, often thinking of the generations of bonsai masters who tended to them. I’m down to my last few boxes of books, after which they’ll be gone forever.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you and yes! We were there this past Spring and spent an hour there in that space. These places feel hard to photograph because they felt hard to understand, but it was not difficult to see their beauty.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The print copy arrived yesterday and it's still an unparalleled feeling to hold a copy of Time Magazine in your hands, with a photo you made on the cover.  New to posting here, happy to answer any questions about what goes into this sort of shoot.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ajay Banga is the current President of the World Bank. When he walked into the room, we got right into it without much small talk--moving through locations, keeping him engaged always with an eye on the clock, knowing the shoot could just be over at any point one of his aides decides to step in.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Every cover shoot is different, a whirling amalgam of logistics, improvisation and creativity--hours of planning compressed into a tight ten minutes or so (most of the time). 1/3
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A few favorite photos from a springtime trip to Japan.
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Got totally obsessed with bonsai trees and spent two years photographing them. Self-published a book with said photos, titled In Training. Through a chance meeting, the Library of Congress acquired prints from the book.
In Training by Stephen Voss
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Stephen Voss @stephenvoss.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
We just gotta go through our seasons. Love that.
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