Stephanie Sinclair, 34, is a freelance photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Stephanie graduated from the University of Florida, with a BS in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography. The Chicago Tribune hired her out of college where she worked for five years. After covering the war in Iraq, Stephanie quit her job and moved to Iraq and then Beirut, Lebanon to work out of the region. Her regular clients include The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Stern, German Geo and Marie Claire among others.

In her short career, she has earned numerous awards including the Visa D’Or at the 2004 Visa Pour L’Image photography festival in France, a first place in World Press Photo and the FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography's 2004 Central Asia and Caucasus Grant for her work on women’s issues in Afghanistan. Stephanie most recently won a third place in World Press Photo for her coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon and was a participant in World Press Photo’s 13th Joop Swart Masterclass. Stephanie has also earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse weddings in Chicago, and has been recognized in the American Photography competition for the last four years. The Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to Stephanie for her involvement in a series that the Chicago Tribune produced on the failure of death penalty in Illinois and resulted in the governor to put a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Stephanie was also part of the paper’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their documentation of problems within the airline industry in 2000.

Stephanie is also publisher of the award-winning independent online magazine for women photographers called Photobetty.com.

Exhibitions

Stephanie is currently part of the group exhibit Israel - Lebanon conflict 2006 at the War Photo LTD gallery in Dubrovnik, Croatia. (http://www.warphotoltd.com/)
Stephanie’s work from Iraq and Afghanistan was on display in 2006 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California to accompany the collection "Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women Photojournalists."
In February 2005, her work was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a segment called Picturing Iraq (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june05/photos_2-9.html).
The Peace Museum displayed her images from Iraq in an exhibit titled "Occupation" in Chicago, Illinois in the Fall of 2004.