PROFESSIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHER
REDISCOVERS PASSION
FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
by Madlene Minassian
(@madlene_pa),
PicsArt’s
Community Editor
Stephanie (@stephstephaniesteph) is a professional photographer from the United States.
She works at a popular youth sports photo studio that her father launched 40 years ago.
Photography and sports have been a part of her life for as long as she can remember.
She began taking photos in the fourth grade. “I’d always be the one to bring a camera on field
trips or to a party,” she says. “Everyone wanted me to take pictures.” By the time she was in high
school, she had won her first national award for an emotional and brilliant photo on sisterhood.
Shortly after graduating from university, she started working for the family business, taking
portraits for sports teams. By then, she had stopped capturing the things around her that
interested her. Photography had turned into something she did at work.
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