Creative Partner & Iceland-Based Photographer

For Productions, Brands, Artist Portraits, Editorial, and BTS Documentation/ Principal Photography stills.

Steph Zakas Iceland Production, Brand, Editorial Photographer

I design and direct visual stories that feel cinematic, story-driven, and shaped by the environment they’re set in. My work moves between remote Icelandic terrain, backstage green rooms, artist campaigns, and brand shoots. I bring the eye, the leadership, and the instinct to make it happen across wild landscapes and unpredictable conditions.

With 20 years of experience from film productions as a grip/electric/Gaffer, to producing & coordinating, to setting up the stage for live concerts, to working with some of the biggest names in the industry, to a location-focused photography business— I have a vast well to pull from.

I’m a creative partner helping build the creative vision—whether we’re avoiding a blizzard, dodging hail, or shooting in perfect light for 30 blessed seconds.

I scout, style, direct, shoot, and adjust in real time. I know what it takes to get the shot even when working in uncontrolled enviornments.

I’ve photographed artists, brands, editorials, live shows, elopements, foggy cliffs, wind-blasted humans, and more than a few sheep who wandered into frame. I’ll always have snacks and if wardrobe malfunctions on a mountain, don’t worry—I’ve fixed worse with a C47 and some gaff tape.

Warning: Portfolio includes artistic nudity.

TO NOTE- I’m curating more of my work and am stuck in the Sarlacc Pit of hard drives.
Stay tuned for more event, documentary, and portrait work. You can see my
adventure elopement brand HERE for more.

  • 20 years photography business owner, 10 years specializing in planning all logistics & photographing location-focused outdoor experiences, taking me to 7 countries. SEE HERE

  • Production Coordination & Assisting on set: GQ, Vanity Fair, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, Rolling Stone, Vogue, others

  • Walt Disney World Lead Photographer with Disney Creative Media

  • Hard Rock Live NYC (Times Square) & Orlando (Universal Studios) In-house photographer & stagehand

  • New York Fashion Week BTS & Runway for multiple designers

  • Amanda Palmer album art ‘‘There Will Be No Intermission’’

  • Mighty Bear album art “Einn” (The Dark Queen of Reykjavík)

  • Iceland Innovation Week event photographer

  • Published in multiple fashion magazines, various commercial and brand work, and event documentary storytelling across almost every genre you can think of

  • USA Roller Derby team photographer for the Roller Derby World Cup