Contact
Email: theo@theostroomer.com (Theo uses he/him/his pronouns)
Tel: 303.350.7870
Location: Denver, Colorado
Instagram: @theostroomer
For commissions, please contact Theo directly. Redux Pictures represents Theo's stock imagery.
About
Theo Stroomer is a commercial and editorial photographer in Denver, specializing in portraits, advertising, and corporate photography.
His personal projects chronicle American communities, combining research with long-form journalism to explore history, symbols, and subcultures.
His favorite photographs are curious, quirky, joyous, and empathetic.
- Pronounces his name "Tay-oh".
- Is constructing a deck in his backyard.
- Learned bikebuilding after a thief stole his treasured purple aluminum Cannondale.
- Lived in Bangladesh (RPCV) and Bolivia.
- Has nightmares after he eats cherries.
- Raised his 3-point average to 17% last season.
- Once interviewed Terry Gross.
- Was born with perfect pitch. Played the oboe.
- Studied at Carleton College.
- Owns an original Nintendo system. Loves Battletoads.
- Worked as a paid tumbleweed consultant for a PBS documentary.
- Reached 400,000 miles driving his 1985 Mercedes.
- Would be happy to bake something for you!
Clients
- AARP
- AirBnb
- ALA
- American Heart Association
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Buzzfeed
- Chronicle of Higher Ed
- City of Boulder
- CNN
- Common Spirit
- Der Spiegel
- Diageo
- Empower
- Forbes
- Fortune
- Gaiam
- HCN
- Intuit
- Mother Jones
- New York Times
- NPR
- Open Society Foundations
- Oracle
- Outside
- Politico
- Popular Mechanics
- Popular Science
- ProPublica
- Rolling Stone
- Swedish Hospitals
- TIME
- Trust for Public Land
- University of Colorado
- Vacasa
- Wall Street Journal
- The Y / YMCA
- 5280 Magazine
Recognition
- American Photography 38
- American Photography 37
- NYT Lens Portfolio Review 2021
- American Photography 36
- PDN's 30, Nominee 2018-2019
- Magenta Flash Forward 2017
- Review Santa Fe 2017
- American Photography 33
- American Photography 32
- Photolucida Critical Mass 2015
- Documentary Project Fund Grant
- Puffin Foundation Grant
- Luminous Endowment Grant
Wait, how do you pronounce your name?
"Tay-oh", which sounds like "Day-o" and "Hey-o!" I am part Dutch and that's my nickname, short for Theodore. My last name rhymes with Homer, like the Simpsons character (not Boomer, like the football analyst).