Hey, I’m Steph!
YOUR ACCREDITED GUIDE, WAYFINDER, & CREATIVE CATALYST
Iceland-based Visual Storyteller, Creative Advisor, & Director of Experience
ADVISOR-CONSULTANT-COACH-PHOTOGRAPHER-FILMMAKING-SPEAKER
I’m Steph Zakas— a visual storyteller, creative catalyst, and director of experience living at the edge of the world in Iceland after immigrating from the United States. My work lives at the intersection of landscape, story, and identity—blending photography, film, location-based production, and immersive creative journeys with coaching, consulting, and advisory.
For the past decade, I’ve been guiding people through transformative milestones in their lives, whether behind the lens or out in the wild, using light, movement, coaching-consulting-advisory, and landscape to ignite change or tell a story.
And, for the past six years, I’ve helped creative, innovative, and powerhouse brands build successful businesses while staying true to their values, mission, and purpose.
I know first hand that pressure creates diamonds, and it also crushes potatoes. I tend to help people, projects, and brands not be the potato.
My background spans widely—
With holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Film & TV Production and an accredited Master Coach Certification, lighting for film and live music, production coordination on high-profile projects & campaigns, and a 20-year photography career that’s taken me from Walt Disney World to New York City to mountaintop views.
Everything I do is rooted in landscape and story —internal or external.
As a multi-hyphenate, I’m less interested in fitting into a single mold than in creating a body of work that fulfills the creative spark in me and in others. Whether I’m scouting locations, directing visual narratives, or capturing the unrepeatable, I bring presence, intuition, and a fiercely specific eye.
So really, it doesn’t matter what title you want to give me, just know that I am here to help your creative career or project be as iconic as it’s meant to be.
xoxo Steph
Let's be friends ✨
Let's be friends ✨
When I’m not working—
You can find me:
Roller skating, Olympic Weightlifting, or hiking.
Coaching the Icelandic National team for roller derby and the local Reykjavík team.
Sitting with my cat on my lap.
Baking something questionable because I don’t know how to follow a recipe.
Listening to music or attending a live show.
Hanging out with my husband, Hlynur, in our cute AF seaside home.
Chasing volcanoes.
the cutest creature, ever.
