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As for the curator: working and traveling fetish & nude model, photographer, makeup artist, fashion designer, perpetual artist, creator of anything and everything. Tragic, romantic, broken heart. A lover and a fighter; survivor of abuse. West coast native. “Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I like that certain undefinable something.” Here comes my bio in third person: Stephanie is an internationally published photographer. With 10 years of experience in an array of genres ranging from weddings to lifestyle, fashion and portraits, she is well versed in the business of showing people in their best possible light. Stephanie has honed her skill-set toward the time-honored tradition of portrait-photography, drawing upon inspiration from luminaries of classical painting, fashion photography, Hollywood and the silver screen, contemporary pop culture and everywhere in between. Her approach incorporates her years of experience in magazine editorials to bring to the table a product that is simultaneously classic and classy, fresh and current. Originally from Fremont, Stephanie spent her high school and college years in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She received awards in portrait painting after attending a summer oil painting course for pre-college students at the San Francisco Academy of Art, however, an art school education did not follow. After high school she attended the University of California, Santa Cruz where she intended to study oil painting, though lack of enrollment priority as an underclassmen would cause her to fall back on photography. In light of the trajectory she found herself on and armed with a photography degree, Stephanie moved to San Francisco to launch a career in fashion, pin-up and portrait photography working as a staff photographer for the SuicideGirls, San Francisco based SOMA Magazine, a host of event and nightlife companies, and as a test photographer for Ford Models, LOOK Models and San Francisco’s Passport Modeling Agency. Stephanie simultaneously delved into modeling pursuits of her own, carving out a name for herself in the Alternative scene. Subsequently, her work on both sides of the lens has been published in a variety of books, magazines, and websites, most notably appearing in The New Erotic Photography, 2012, published by TASCHEN. University of California, Santa Cruz BA, Art, Emphasis in Photography