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nother shoot with one of my favourite models.
Shot on location around Craster and Warkworth in Northumberland.
One of the better images from last nights shoot in my studio with Steph.
AB1600 through 30x40 softbox, high camera-right.
Just about the shortest dress I can wear. Downstairs at Napoleon's. I walked Steph back through Manchester to catch her bus wearing this outfit. I received quite a few comments and the odd proposition. Not sure why!
I'm having fun with square crops lately, inspired by Ola I suppose. Strobist notes: SB-600 onto the back window curtain, SB-800 into a 4' umbrella up and to the right (See setup shot.) I really like the 4' for a nice even light.
Shot with steph today had alot of fun. i always wanted to shoot in an orange grove becasue the whole living in Florida thing haha
Strobist:Ab800 dished to right and j-160 to left bare
nother shoot with one of my favourite models.
Shot on location around Craster and Warkworth in Northumberland.
Steph Song's film, Dim Sum Funeral, was screened at the Singapore International Film Festival recently. Fortunately for TORO, she met with photographer Darryl Humphrey in Vancouver before making the trip to Malaysia.
See more images from the shoot:
Last week, I lost one of my best friends in the whole wide world. This photo is from a shoot in which she gamely posed as a 1970s disco icon to accompany a fashion story that I was writing. Steph had a flair for style that was all unto its own. We were both obsessed with 70s style--from chunky gold bracelets to Halston-inspired jumpsuits. There is now a gaping hole where our friendship and love used to be, and I will forever be seeking ways in which to fill it, with photos and writing and the memories that we shared during our 21 years of friendship. Here's the obituary that I wrote for Steph. She asked me to write it soon after she was diagnosed with cancer and, in classic Steph form, let me know, "I was going to ask you even before I got sick. Then I made a joke, "I've done two already--I'm for hire!" And we laughed about it. And I tried to pretend I would never have to write it. But life, as it does, whether we like it or not, had other plans:
Stephanie Chernak Maurer passed away on Wednesday, August 22 two and a half years after being diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, a horrible disease that needs far more research funding. But while cancer may have taken Stephanie’s physical self, her spiritual presence will forever be felt and known to those who loved her, which is a veritable army of friends and family from her hometown of Framingham, all across Massachusetts, Texas, Arizona, New York, New Jersey and California, many of whom came and visited her in the days leading up to her far too soon death at the age of 47.
Nobody had as many friends as Stephanie. She was quite literally the most likable person who ever walked the earth. There was not a judgmental bone in her body. She liked people for exactly who and what they were. She was supportive and loving and accepting in a way to which we should all aspire. If you were out for dinner and could not decide between ordering the mac and cheese and grilled cheese, Stephanie’s legendary advice would be: “Get both.”
After graduating from Framingham North High School (1989), Stephanie attended Roger Williams University (1989-1992), and then Emerson College, where she graduated in 1995. Steph (as she was called) moved to Los Angeles and began a career in post-production and scheduling that would span the next 20-plus years. She most recently worked at Technicolor both in Los Angeles and New York, before moving home to Framingham, where she said she never felt more settled.
Married for eleven years to Jamie Maurer, the pair adopted their son, Julian, six years ago. Julian was the great love and joy of her life. Together with Jamie, Stephanie was absolutely wild about her funny, mischievous, curious, tow-headed little boy. For Julian’s sixth birthday this past June, she and Jamie, along with some friends, went to see Imagine Dragons, Julian’s favorite band. Stephanie was passionate about music and, like her love for people, her appreciation for music was unbridled and not confined to any one specific genre. She loved all music, from rock to hip hop to jazz and R&B. Favorite bands and musical acts included Steely Dan, Phish, Sharon Jones, Talib Kwali, Maceo Parker, Van Morrison, the Roots, James Taylor and the Beatles, especially “In My Life,” “Hey, Jude” and “Beautiful Boy,” a song that came to personify Julian, whom she often called her “heart.” But Stephanie also knew all the words to Little River Band’s “Lady,” and she was not above listening to the “Bee Gees’ Greatest Hits” whilst on a road trip to the California desert.
Stephanie was a lifelong member of Hadassah. She loved photography, fashion, books and clothes. She loved a good tuna sandwich and an icy, frothy fountain Coke. S.E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders” is one of Steph’s favorite all-time novels. She loved concert posters, “Will & Grace” and the beautiful city of Boston, her home. She loved the beach in winter. She loved entertaining people, from her family home on Upland Road in Framingham, and her apartment, condo and house in California to her house on Olympic Street, Stephanie’s home was the place to which people gravitated. There was no better time to be had than sitting on Stephanie’s couch whilst channel surfing or listening to music. Doing nothing with Stephanie was the most fun a person in this world could possibly have.
Stephanie was loved and adored by everybody with whom she came in touch. Stephanie’s mother, Roberta, was one of her heroes, an amazing woman with many talents, a beautiful smile and a true role model whose life was also cut short by metastatic breast cancer.
Aside from Jamie and Julian, Stephanie is survived by her father, Allan, and stepmother, Liz; her younger sisters, Leslie and Gabriella; her younger brother Jarod; her cousin Jennifer and her husband, Scott, and their two children Emma and Madelyn; and her cousin Frank and his fiancé Stephanie.
Please take note: Stephanie hated the word “moist.” She also did not like Edible Arrangements or deli platters (so please do not bring any to the Shiva house).
Funeral services will take place Monday, August 27 at 11:00 AM at Levine Chapels in Brookline, to be followed by interment at Beit Olam East Cemetery in Wayland. Shiva will be held afterwards at the home of Paul and Jill Jeter.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Stephanie’s name to Metavivor, a crucially important organization that focuses on raising awareness, spearheading research and supporting those with metastatic breast cancer: www.Metavivor.org/research
Stay gold, Stephanie. We will love you and miss you and remember you always. You made the world a magical place.