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22 | Tees Business TEESSIDE IN PICTURES S tockton lad Stephen Hornsey has always enjoyed photography, being inspired as a child to start taking photographs of the places he visited and the sights he witnessed following family holidays in the Yorkshire Dales. The 26-year-old, from Norton, loves the outdoors and regularly goes hiking, fishing and mountain biking, usually in the countryside surrounding Teesside, and his pictures are often a by-product of these pursuits. Following some negative coverage of the area in the media, Stephen hopes that his work will prove that Teesside is a diverse, unique and beautiful area. As well as the breath-taking countryside that surrounds Teesside, Stephen believes that industrial landscapes are an integral part of the area and also have their own beauty. Due to this, he often tries to illustrate the co-existence of these two very different subje