Steve London

Steve London was born in 1954 in New York City, attended Brown University and Dartmouth Medical School, and works as an anesthesiologist on Martha's Vineyard and in Maui, Hawaii.
His passion for fishing is lifelong, dating back to party-boat outings from Brooklyn with his grandfather and fishing around Long Island with family and friends. he was later introduced to the Cape and island waters, as a Family Physician in Provincetown MA. Now a resident of the Eastville area of Oak Bluffs, he is fortunate to be in close proximity to both the fishing grounds and the Hospital. As a regular MV Fishing Derby participant and 2-time Blue Ribbon winner at the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair for his smoked bluefish, Steve enjoys handling fish, and was attracted to the Japanese art of Gyotaku. He studied Gyotaku with a master printer at the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center on Maui, and uses the 'Direct Technique' in which non-toxic ink is painted onto the fish, which is then rubbed onto natural paper of fabric, creating a one-of-a-kind exact image of the fish. Adhering strictly to the traditional form, the image is unretouched after its creation, save for the hand-painted fisheye. Since the fish remains quite edible after painting, Gyotaku combines form and function, allowing the fisherman to document the catch in the field and eat it too.