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Stephanie spent
her youth in California at the beach hanging out with surfers and partying
in Los Angeles underground clubs. Her graphic designer
father and classical soprano mother had rebelled against their conservative
Pennsylvanian families and run off to the West Coast where the “art scene was
happening”.
After graduating from California State University with a degree in Fine
Arts, she was accepted into a prestigious post graduate program with the New
York School of Visual Arts and the Paris Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques
( Penninghen ) where she studied graphic design and photography with Peter
Knapp ( art director for Elle magazine ).
She worked in Paris as an art director for the advertising agencies Ketchum
and BDDP@TBWA and portfolioled internationally as a photographer for Miramax,
Radio France International, Toronto Life, and TDF ( a division of French
television ) doing still photography, portraiture, reportage in over 20
countries, and covering Paris and London fashion shows and music festivals
such as Glastonbury and Roskilde. Friends in the bands U2 and Prodigy
encouraged her artistic endeavors, but it was through Blur along with
Stylorouge and Yacht Associates that she met her agent at Millennium in
London.
In 1999 she was invited to work for the famous fashion photographer Mario
Testino at Art Partner where she helped produce shoots for Gucci, Vogue,
Arena, as well as Dutch, The Face, and Dazed and Confused for Vincent Peters
and Sean Ellis.
Her work with Mario Testino led to a proposition by Condé Nast to work for
Glamour magazine with Claudie Rappeneau, wife of French film director Jean
Paul Rappeneau. She was then hired as Senior Art Director at Pennel for
Guerlain, L’Oréal, and Helena Rubinstein and then at TCF Consultants for
Cacharel, Givenchy, and Armani with Gilles Scalabre, former art director for
Yves Saint Laurent.
In 2004 she is currently working as both a professional photographer and art
director creating advertising, catalogue, editorial, celebrities
portraiture, and other published works for clients such as Lanvin, Chloé,
Alfred Dunhill, Caron, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Paris Capitale magazine, and
many others. She continues to make Paris her base while portfolioling to
London and abroad regularly. She is represented in Paris by Jean Drieu La
Rochelle at the agency of Valerie Anne Giscard d’Estaing, Photo12, and in
London by Niall O’Leary and Jason Shenai at Millennium.
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