About julie stauffer

Julie Stauffer has spent more than fifteen years at the forefront of iPhone photography education on the East Coast, helping people discover that the most powerful camera they own is already in their pocket. Blending deep photographic expertise with a lifelong passion for teaching, she creates workshops that are welcoming, inspiring, and transformative for photographers of all ages and experience levels.

Her photographic journey began long before the iPhone. Julie spent a decade photographing weddings throughout the New York tri-state area, capturing both the grandeur and the quiet, fleeting moments that define a day. At the same time, she worked with the New Canaan Nature Center, documenting its celebrated Secret Garden Tour. Whether photographing gardens, weddings, or families, her work has always centered on storytelling—preserving the ordinary and extraordinary moments that shape our lives.

In 2013, Julie embraced a creative shift, turning her attention to the iPhone as a serious photographic tool. Through extensive study and experimentation, she mastered its nuances and developed a signature class series designed to help people see more clearly, compose more intentionally, and create photographs with meaning. Along the way, she found an unexpected joy in bridging generations—teaching senior citizens, millennials, and everyone in between how to unlock the creative potential of their phones.

Now in her third decade as a professional photographer, Julie’s primary focus is iPhone photography instruction, a natural return to teaching after earlier careers as an elementary educator and a childbirth/Lamaze instructor. 

Her personal work has evolved into expressive, in-camera images using multiple exposure and intentional camera movement—photographs that move beyond realism to become images about something rather than merely of something. Her interest often creates abstract photographs that originated as a realistic file. 

Based in Lancaster and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, Julie continues to teach, create, and explore the art of seeing with students.