After graduating from California State University with a degree in Fine Arts, Stephanie Slama was accepted into a prestigious post graduate program with the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques / Penninghen where she studied graphic design and photography with Elle magazine art director Peter Knapp. She worked in Paris as an art director for several advertising agencies and traveled internationally as a photographer for Miramax, Radio France International, Toronto Life, and TDF - a division of French television - doing still photography, portraiture, reportage in over 20 countries, and covering Paris and London fashion shows and music festivals such as Glastonbury and Roskilde.
A turning point in her career came when worked as production assistant for the famous fashion photographer Mario Testino at Art Partner where she helped produce shoots for Gucci, Vogue, Arena, as well as Dutch, The Face, and Dazed and Confused for Vincent Peters and Sean Ellis. Her work with Mario Testino led to a proposition by Condé Nast to work for Glamour magazine with Claudie Rappeneau, wife of French film director Jean Paul Rappeneau. She was then hired as Senior Art Director at Pennel for Guerlain, L’Oréal, and Helena Rubinstein and then at TCF Consultants for Cacharel, Givenchy, and Armani with Gilles Scalabre, former art director for Yves Saint Laurent.
In 2010 she is currently working as a professional photographer creating advertising, catalogue, editorial, celebrities portraiture, and other published works for Lanvin, Chloé, Alfred Dunhill, Caron, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Paris Capitale magazine, and many others. She continues to make Paris her base while traveling abroad regularly. She is represented in Paris by Colombe de Meurin at the agency of Valerie Anne Giscard d’Estaing, Photo12, and in London by Niall O’Leary and Jason Shenai at Millennium.