BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Mitchell is the Director of Photography at Harvard University where she has been since 1999. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Stephanie came to New England to study at Wellesley College. She received her B.A. with honors from Wellesley, studied photography at the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies in Portland, Maine, attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in upstate New York, and earned her master’s degree in Studio Arts and Film from the Harvard Extension School where she won the Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize.

In the course of her work at Harvard, she has traveled on assignments to ten countries around the world, photographed seven presidents of Harvard, countless professors, staff, and students within the Harvard community, and documented numerous notable figures during their visits to Harvard, including John Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, and Malala Yousafzai.  

In 2011, she was the recipient of the first Harvard Public Affairs & Communications Award for Excellence and Innovation, and in 2019, she was named a Harvard Hero, a staff recognition award that celebrates extraordinary “above and beyond” contributions to the University.

Her photographs have been selected for exhibitions curated by the National Press Photographers Association and the Cambridge Art Association, awarded recognition from the Boston Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest, and appeared in publications throughout New England and beyond, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN, Guardian, Irish Times, Der Spiegel, and Time Magazine.

In addition to photography, she creates pottery, participating in Cambridge Arts Open Studios, and writes poetry. Her debut poetry collection, Viewfinder, will be published in September.

She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.