Author Biography
Stephanie C. Roberts is an award-winning documentary photographer and the creator of LittlePurpleCow Productions. She balances client photography and digital media storytelling assignments with a focus on several long-term personal documentary projects. With her personal projects, Stephanie seeks to uncover threads of connection and commonality among diverse people divided by cultural, socio-economic, and geographic boundaries. In Spring 2009, Stephanie won the “Name Your Dream Assignment” global photography competition sponsored by Lenovo and Microsoft. This award has sent Stephanie and her "Picture Hope" project partner, Jen Lemen, on a journey to remote regions of Rwanda, Tanzania, and Nepal to capture and share images and stories of hope from courageous changemakers and wise individuals including modern-day slaves, genocide survivors, refugees, and the poorest of the poor.
Stephanie is a partner in and regular contributor to Shutter Sisters, the most popular online women's photography community, and a featured expert on Pixiq. A social media and technology enthusiast, Stephanie is among early leaders in the mobile photography movement – pushing the art of iPhoneography as an approach to real-time documentary. Stephanie's photography has been featured on Forbes.com and LIFE.com, and exhibited at the PhotoFest Gallery in Houston, the Atlanta Photography Gallery, and the Monroe Art Guild. In 2010, she was honored as a BlogHer Voice of the Year for her "Picture Hope" project. She is a member of the Association of Media Photographers and the Atlanta Photography Group.
Stephanie is the author of The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity, published April 2011 by Pixiq, an imprint of Sterling Publishing, in the US and Canada, and by Ilex Press in the UK. The book will be available in Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese and Finnish languages. She is a co-author of Expressive Photography: A Shutter Sisters Guide to Shooting from the Heart published in 2010 by Focal Press in the US and Canada, Ilex Press in the UK, and National Geographic in Germany. Stephanie was also a contributor to Kirtsy Takes a Bow, an artful collection of inspirations from more than 100 social media leaders, entrepreneurs and artists published by Bright Sky Press in 2009.
In January 2011, Stephanie founded Lens on Life, Inc., a non-profit organization that inspires, cultivates, and promotes a visual voice for the unseen. The focus is on children and young adults living in impoverished and challenged conditions around the world. The organization seeks to inspire interest and develop skills in documentary photography as a form of creative expression and storytelling.
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