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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 thus far 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. 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 and Ilex Press in the UK, and was honored as a BlogHer 2010 Voice of the Year for her "Picture Hope" project. A social media and technology enthusiast, Stephanie is among early leaders in the mobile photography movement – pushing the art of iPhoneography as an experimental approach to real-time documentary. Her second book, The Art of iPhoneography will be published in Spring 2011 by Sterling Publishing in the US and Canada, and by Ilex Press in the UK.