For over twenty years Stephanie Badini has photographed countless A-list celebrities, dignitaries, fashion, art and design luminaries covering galas, parties, corporate and private events around the world. Her work celebrates beauty, intuitive connection, and refinement. Badini’s straightforward and upbeat demeanor puts her subjects at ease, and her clients continually depend on her talent, expertise, and consistency.

She sees the world in pictures and her rich and varied path to photography informs her distinct aesthetic that sets her apart.

Badini began her photographic career in Los Angeles and went on to study at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, where she has been on the faculty since 2002. Classically trained in analog film photography with a deep love for the art and craft of the darkroom process, she then continued onto digital imaging.

Growing up in the proximity of Washington DC in Potomac, Maryland, she began her career in politics, received a BA from Boston University, where Howard Zinn was her advisor, attended the London School of Economics (LSE), worked at the UK Parliament and the US Congress and lived and worked in Taipei, Taiwan.

Her work has been published in Vogue, New York Times Magazine, InStyle, The Washington Post, Architectural Digest, Town and Country among others.

Select clients include Cartier, Christie’s, Chanel, City Meals on Wheels, Frick Collection, Harvard University, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Mount Sinai, Planned Parenthood, The HistoryMakers, United Nations, and Whitney Museum.

Badini is based in Soho and available for assignments worldwide. When not behind the camera lens, she can be found traveling abroad and when in New York City taking hip hop dance classes. The parallels of dance and that of photographic capture continue to inspire her life, work, and art.

She is grateful and inspired by the quote below.

“Let the beauty that we love be what we do” — Rumi