Stephanie Freid-Perenchio
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio is an independent documentary photographer who focuses on humanitarian issues and life in wartime. She is best known for documenting Navy SEALs, including the book SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice, coauthored with Jennifer Walton in 2009. Over eight years, they photographed SEAL training in Alaska and California and spent months with SEALs in Afghanistan. Her SEAL work has been shown at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, and featured in Foreign Policy and the Chicago Tribune.
Her interest in the subject began after a dinner-table conversation with Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward. After the 9/11 attacks, she reached out to him for access, and he allowed them to document the SEALs. The project was originally titled A Day in the Life of a SEAL.
Freid-Perenchio has also photographed endangered animals in Africa and explored how war affects women and children in Afghanistan. Locally, she co-chairs the Family of Women Film Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho. She runs SFP Studio in Ketchum, Idaho.
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