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Emily Stein (British) is an accomplished London based portrait & fashion photographer.  She has a weekly column in The Guardian newspaper as well as clients including MTV, PUMA, BBC, Dazed & Confused and VICE Magazine.

After completing her training, with the renowned photographer Rankin, Stein has travelled around the UK and the US for the last decade.  She focuses on photographing teenagers from all walks of life.  The result is a series of highly skilled, stylised and intimate accounts of youth celebrating the spirit of being young.  Emily is also co-partner of #WEAREPHOTOGIRLS.

We Are Photogirls is a London - based organisation that specialises in creatively engaging girls through the media of fashion, style and photography through events, projects and bespoke fashion shoot parties while nurturing a healthy image of the fashion industry.  We Are Photogirls also consults and art directs for those looking to engage the teenage mind. Their clients include London Fashion Week, Somerset House, Rimmel and The National Portrait Gallery.  We are photogirls has recently published a book specifically for teenagers interested in fashion promoting the ethos for kids to be creative and constantly inspired by everything around them.

BUBBLEGUM BEACH is a portrait series of children and teenagers shot on a beach in New York State over the summer of 2013.  The transience of youth has always been a popular theme in the history of western painting.  In the symbolic language of this tradition, bubbles represent the ephemerality of life and the suddenness of its conclusion.

The series responds to this moralising urge by using bubblegum as a practical way of drawing a fabulously diverse range of facial expressions from its young subjects.  In doing so, the series reminds us that youth is not only to be mourned as something brief, but also celebrated for its spontaneity and individuality.