Location: San Francisco Bay Area Email: emilyrosesteinberger@gmail.com Phone: 650-636-5222
Emily Steinberger (she/her) first picked up a camera to document her own life and preserve memories that she didn’t want to forget. Now as a visual storyteller, she focuses on remembrance and memory woven into themes of family, religion, environment, nostalgia and tradition.
When telling stories, Emily’s goal is to bring the viewer into a world that expands beyond what they see in the photograph and share these experiences like they are their own memories. Her stories allow them to smell the scents, hear the sounds, touch the textures, feel the emotions — even if only in their imagination.
As Emily has developed as a visual storyteller, she has realized the power photographs have in transcending language barriers and literacy levels. She is passionate about mentoring young storytellers — especially those who have been systemically silenced — to help them tell their own stories.
Emily's work has been published in CNN, Fox News, CalMatters, Reporterre, San Mateo Daily Journal and The Daily Orange. Her work has also won the International Photography Awards competition, been shortlisted for the World Photography Organisation's Sony World Photography Award, won the Society for News Design's Front Page Design category and named an Honorable Mention by the Associated Collegiate Press.
Emily graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in photojournalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications and management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Previously, she has been a leader at The Daily Orange — the independent student-run newspaper of Syracuse, New York — first as the publication's Photo Editor and then as its Editor-in-Chief. In the moments when her camera is not in hand, Emily is usually listening to music on her record player, researching and analyzing the coins in her collection or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.
Emily is currently freelancing in the San Francisco Bay Area and working on publishing her book, L'dor V'dor: From Generation to Generation.