UPS Peak Season Documentary Series – a Four-Year Client Project

Stephanie pitched this project to UPS in 2013 with the idea of using mobile documentary storytelling to reveal a more human look at the company – to show the people behind the packages as online shopping and shipping began to explode globally. For four years, she documented UPS employees and contractors at work during their peak season (Thanksgiving through December). She completed the series in 2016, on UPS' 110th anniversary. Stephanie visited 20 cities across the United States and photographed ~100 diverse UPSers – from loaders to drivers, from porters to plant engineers, and from mechanics to meteorologists. In 2016 UPS delivered 4.9 billion packages and documents.

Facility locations represented in images: Orlando, FL; Knoxville, TN; Louisville, KY; Greensboro, NC; Birmingham, AL; Lawnside & Sandy Hook, NJ; Pleasantdale, GA; McAllen, TX; Chicago, IL; Los Lunas, NM; San Diego, CA; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Gaithersburg, MD; Lancaster, PA; Rolla, MO

Hometown: A Documentary of Monroe, Georgia – a Four-Year Personal Project

Featured in The New York Times LENS and on CBS46 News in Atlanta, Georgia, this photo documentary series captured a historically significant look at Monroe, Georgia (2012 - 2016) – a small southern town situated comfortably between Athens and Atlanta. It is a place of contrasts – old and new, white collar and blue collar. Home to more than 13,000 folks – about half black and half white. A bedroom community of proud natives, content neighbors, and hopeful newcomers seeking space. Quiet. It lacks a fancy grocery store, street art, and a place to buy liquor; but it's abundant in spacious cotton mills, bibles, and bankers. Conservative. Its shades of gray and democrats can be counted on one hand. A stretch of land thick with heritage and a shape to be defined. A hardcover book of images from the series was buried in the Walton County Bicentennial time capsule in 2018. This project helped inspire Stephanie’s first documentary film, UNSPOKEN. Visit the online exhibit.

Guide to Mobile Storytelling for The Coca-Cola Company

Stephanie worked with The Coca-Cola Company Technical Community to create the company's Guide to Mobile Storytelling to inspire more compelling internal communications on the company’s global intranet. The engagement included three mobile documentary shoots including The Coca-Cola Startup Weekend and REDTalks events at corporate headquarters, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at The Coca-Cola Freestyle Manufacturing Facility. This 55-page print (newsprint) and digital (interactive PDF) documentary learning tool content was conceived, written and photographed by Stephanie and designed by Brice Beasley. The Guide was launched in collaboration with the Company's first REDTalks event held at The Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta, GA on October 10, 2014.

UPS Healthcare Photography Assignment

This project included three on-location shoots, two UPS customer locations and one UPS facility dedicated to Merck temperature-controlled packaging and logistics in metro-Atlanta, Georgia. Select images were published in the print and digital Annual Healthcare Industry Report, and are currently being used in ongoing print and digital customer communications for the UPS Healthcare segment.

Photography Exhibits

Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA (October 11, 2013) – Stephanie's photographs and videos captured on assignment in the Republic of Georgia for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, were shared as part of the "Through the Eyes of a Girl" art exhibit celebrating International Day of the Girl

Southern Exposures 16th Annual Exhibition, Pike County, GA (Sept 2018) – “Homecoming Dates” by Stephanie Calabrese was selected by the 2018 Slow Exposures judges to be 1 of 80 images from more than 1100 submission) to be featured in the show’s 16th year of celebrating photography of the rural south. The exhibition was held in Pike County, Georgia in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography

National Center for Civil & Human Rights, Atlanta, GA (June 2012) – Stephanie exhibited ten photographs from her "Picture Hope" body of documentary photographs alongside an exhibit of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers at the Georgia Aquarium for an invitation-only event celebrating the ground breaking of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia

Odapark Art Centre, Holland March (May 2012) – A series of Stephanie's iPhone photographs were selected to be exhibited in the Odapark Art Centre in Holland for the "Love the One You're With" exhibition featuring nature photography by 13 photographers from around the world

Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Oct 2011) – Stephanie curated and shared ten of her iPhone photographs in The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity exhibition at Matre Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia in association with Atlanta Celebrates Photography month. Her work was exhibited among eight photographers featured in her book.