Steve Madden is a London-based photographer and broadcaster. He grew up in London. He began taking photographs at the age of 9, and his first published picture appeared on the front page of a local newspaper when he was 14. He sees himself mainly as a street and music photographer, and he has never worked as a full-time photographer.
He is best known for more than 40 years of work for the BBC and on commercial radio. He spent fifteen years as a presenter on BBC Radio 2.
His book The Grind (GOST Books, 2025) shows anonymous commuters behind the misty windows of London buses. He made the pictures in the evening rush hour over three winters. The project began in 2005, when he photographed a woman framed by a bus window on Shaftesbury Avenue.
