“Sue was a well-known, respected, and liked figure in photography says Anne Braybon, photography historian and curator, and a close friend

Even Sue Steward, a writer who excelled in celebrating lives, might have struggled to write an obituary that unravelled the vibrant meshing of her own. She lived with ferocious energy and enthusiasm, and a genuine gift for friendship so innate that she never realised how unique it was. When Sue died recently from a brain haemorrhage, sustained in her beloved East Sussex garden, grief ricocheted through an extensive global network of friends and colleagues.

An overarching passion for music and visual culture ran seamlessly through Sue’s life, propelled by her boundless curiosity. She made her name as an authority on Latin and world music in the 1990s, and more recently in photography as a writer, curator, mentor, and broadcaster, but for her there was never a split between the two. One underpinned and enriched the other, and it would misrepresent the indefatigable, chaotic and brilliant way she lived to suggest a chronological division. Excellent obituaries cover Sue’s significant contribution to world and Latin music; here I will focus on some of her myriad photography activities.”

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