Stephanie Paine is a visual artist and teaches photography in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
She explores a range of photographic techniques that often merge digital and traditional processes and include hand-built and altered cameras.
She earned an MFA degree from Purdue University, and soon after taught photography courses in Istanbul at Sabanci University for over five years. She has been an artist in residence in Iceland, Finland, and Bulgaria.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at leading gallery spaces including, the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. She earned honorary mention for the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, and has been included in the textbook, "Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer" by Morgan Post, (Routledge, New York, 2022).