BlogHer10 Speaking Event
Stephanie will speak at the annual conference for women bloggers & social media enthusiasts to be held in NYC on Aug 7.
Picture Hope Update
Stephanie and project partner Jen Lemen will share images & stories from Nepal in July 2010. See Picture Hope featured in the Microsoft Photography Gallery.
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iPhoneography Journal
"One Life in Motion" is Stephanie's iPhoneography journal. This experimental space is updated with new images shot & processed on her iPhone several times each day.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 12:01AM 
We visited Theresia in Magadini Village outside Arusha, Tanzania. A young business owner supported by local non-profit BEST (Business and Entrepreneurship Support Tanzania), she sells rice to provide this home and food for her two children. The basic necessities of life.
BEST, arusha, tanzania in Picture Hope Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 04:07PM 
What struck me most about the students at Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania was the width of their openness and honest desire to consume and embrace all things new... instruction, friendship, laptops, hands and hugs, e-mail, lunch, questions, paper airplanes, Twitter, Crayons, digital cameras... bubbles. I don't recall a shadow of fear or hesitation.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 11:08AM 
He could have been nervous. An ocean away from home and most things familiar. But it didn't show. Quietly, Carter (Jen's son) moved with the natural flow of things during our Picture Hope visit to Shepherd's Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania. He could have insisted that he sit beside his mother on that bus. But he didn't. Trusting and content in the middle, he found his place.
arusha, shepherds junior school, tanzania in People, Picture Hope Friday, February 19, 2010 at 12:00AM 
"Photography is in essence a scientifically accurate process for the reproduction of objective appearances, a stationary magic that fixes a second from time's passage on a single plane. Its greatest service is documentary." – Lincoln Kirstein, Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, December 1933
I've read this phrase over and over again. It's the first collection of words that preceeds the masterful black and white images of John Loengard in "As I See It." I've been an artist all my life, yet it took forty years worth of moments to really prepare me to see as a photographer. To open up my heart and mind wide enough to fully embrace the significance of human interaction, absent of my involvement. Nothing thrills me more than documenting the magic of life.
Read the story behind this image made at Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania.
arusha, shepherds jr school, tanzania in People Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10:40AM 
Praise, manager of local non-profit organization BEST (Business and Entrepreneurship Support Tanzania) and her team introduced us to several of their clients during our visit with them in Arusha. She explained to us that the poorest of the poor are eager to cultivate the land if they are supported with farm inputs, seed capital and farm acquisition.
This is Agness, a wife and young mother. She welcomed us into her modest home in Magadini Village to show us her baby and share her life with us. Thanks to BEST's seed capital and business services' support, Agness is able to support her family with the money she earns cultivating her rice paddy. Quietly, she moved with ease out to the center of the muddy field for me to make her portrait. Patient and proud. This woman's strength humbles me.
Update 01/28/10:
I just received an email from Praise at BEST. She writes, "Agness has just harvested her rice. She harvested 14 bags and all are stored in her single room. By next week I will send you her amazing pictures. Others are doing fine too with a lot of demand and expectations from BEST. They want to copy from Agness." If you want to offer support for people like Agness in Arusha, let me know and I'll connect you with my friends at BEST.
BEST, arusha, tanzania in People, Picture Hope