UNSPOKEN

Stephanie Calabrese is an award-winning documentary artist capturing human stories and revealing moments in mixed media: video, photography and writing. Stephanie began her career as a freelance documentary artist following her win of the “Name Your Dream Assignment” photography competition sponsored by Microsoft and Lenovo in 2008, when she and a project partner were awarded $50,000 to fund a documentary project, “Picture Hope” which sent her to Rwanda, Tanzania and Nepal to capture wisdom and stories of hope from genocide survivors, community activists and school founders.

Among early leaders in the mobile photography movement, Stephanie is the author of the best-selling “The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity” published by Pixiq (a division of Sterling Press) and Ilex Press (now Octopus Press) and “Lens on Life: Documenting Your World Through Photography” published by Focal Press and Ilex Press (now Octopus) which have been translated into multiple languages and sold throughout the world. Her belief in the value of documentary work by all, made possible by mobile photography, is expressed in her TEDx Talk on “Building a Better World, One Picture at a Time.”

Stephanie’s photographic documentary series “Hometown: A Documentary of Monroe, Georgia” which inspired the creation of her first feature film, UNSPOKEN, has been featured on The New York Times LENS site, on Atlanta CBS45 News and in the ACP (Atlanta Celebrates Photography) Blog. Her work has been featured in Time Lightbox, Forbes.com, LIFE.com, Digital Photo, Photo.net, Professional Photographer, and The Bitter Southerner.

Stephanie has directed, written, shot and produced documentary projects for clients including UPS, The Coca-Cola Company, CARE International, The Georgia Department of Family and Child Services, and Stacey Abrams 2019 Campaign for Governor of Georgia. She resides in Monroe, Georgia.