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Simone Staff Simone Staff is a Southern California lifestyle and action photographer.

She attempts to show her surroundings and its many forms of people through unique perspectives and stunning imagery, capturing the fleeting moments around her. ABOUT SIMONE
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As long as I can remember, I have been exposed to all kinds of wilderness. From sailing or surfing in the vast Pacific to frolicking through the deserts of California, running up rolling hills in New Zealand and exploring coral reefs in the Coral Triangle, I love adventure. I have done all of these exploratory missions with a camera in hand, documenting special fleeting moments that are always occurring around me. I do this all through the lens of a camera, via still photography and videography.
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I strive to always push myself to work harder, travel further, and am constantly creating new ideas and ways of capturing an image due to my close relationship with the planet and its wildlife. I strive to show Earth and its many forms of people through unique perspectives and stunning imagery. Through my travels I have met incredible and inspirational people, allowing me to capture the way they live. I continue to shoot, document, and travel to try and make a difference on our only planet.

10/15/2026

Why pick a few when you can share your recent portfolio 😜

But in all honesty, this year has been one heck of a ride with some ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE clients. Feeling grateful that so many of my clients I truly feel are some of my dearest people — the community you all have given me and the trust in my art is special and something I don’t take for granted. There’s a lot more to do before 2026 ends…let’s get to it ✨

There are places you visit and places that stay with you, and Norway has a way of doing the latter. I haven’t quite been...
10/12/2026

There are places you visit and places that stay with you, and Norway has a way of doing the latter. I haven’t quite been able to shake it since leaving…and truthfully, I don’t think I want to.

We drove through mountains that rose straight out of the sea, past ancient glaciers and water so clear and cold it hardly seemed real. We wandered above the Arctic Circle, found surf in wild country, and met people who seemed perfectly content living quietly at the edge of the world. I found myself wondering what it would be like to live that way, tucked between the mountains and the sea, with nowhere in particular to be. Maybe that’s the new dream? There wasn’t a stretch of road that didn’t make us want to pull over, get out, and stand there for a while. We tried to take it all in before moving on to the next beautiful thing.

There’s something about a place so wild and vast that makes you feel incredibly small. The kind of beauty that doesn’t ask for your attention but takes it anyway. Nothing was trying to impress you, and yet everything did.

I’ve thought about going back more times than I can count since leaving. I feel incredibly lucky that this little life of mine, and the work I get to do, takes me to corners of the world I once only dreamed of seeing. And even luckier that I get to share some of them with people I love dearly.

Some places leave you with photographs. Others leave a little piece of themselves in you. Norway gave me both.

YETI x Matador Network x Florida Keys Tourism BoardEight days in the Florida Keys with YETI and Matador Network, telling...
10/04/2026

YETI x Matador Network x Florida Keys Tourism Board

Eight days in the Florida Keys with YETI and Matador Network, telling the story of YETI ambassador Captain Brush Moltz and the place he calls home. It was my first time in the Keys, and getting to experience it this way - on the water, underwater, chasing boats, fish, people and stories around with a camera - was about as good an introduction as I could have asked for.

I came on as the photographer and vertical video gal, but one of my favorite parts of the whole project was getting to work alongside such an insane crew of creatives. Watching everyone tell the same story through their own lens, and seeing how all of those pieces eventually came together, was incredibly inspiring.

Eight very full days, a lot of time on the water, some really wonderful people, and definitely one of those jobs that became a core memory somewhere along the way.

Production: Matador Network | Travel
Client: YETI
Insane creatives: Kristofer Evered Omar Evan Kai Luth Scott Sporleder Heather Gray Sound Mike Dewey Marcos Mazzola

09/28/2026

Portfolio Maxxing…

I’ve been off my reel game, been living life and in my off work moments, really living offline. I’ve also started coming to terms with this day and age and the need to put my face more online in order to gain some traction. So, I’m making myself a deal that it’s okay to be terrified about talking to camera, showing myself to people I don’t know, etc. but I’m going to show up for myself and do it anyways 🫣♥️

A recent editorial with bachelor Doug Mason for L’Amour Spain👕: Ryann Lanel Redman 🎥: Banna Bazzarie Assist: a l e x a 🦋
09/28/2026

A recent editorial with bachelor Doug Mason for L’Amour Spain

👕: Ryann Lanel Redman
🎥: Banna Bazzarie
Assist: a l e x a 🦋

In the pool recently with a l e x a 🦋 in Speedo USA
09/21/2026

In the pool recently with a l e x a 🦋 in Speedo USA

09/18/2026

Let the games begin!

Day 1 of brought lighter winds as the ORC fleet set off to the distance race out the Gate. The regatta is off to a great start, we can’t wait to see what’s in store for Day 2.

L’AMOUR SPAIN AUGUST 2026 COVER — Doug Mason: The Art of BecomingShot in Los Angeles on a perfect spring day with an ins...
09/09/2026

L’AMOUR SPAIN AUGUST 2026 COVER — Doug Mason: The Art of Becoming

Shot in Los Angeles on a perfect spring day with an insanely talented crew.

Creative Direction + Stills: 🙋‍♀️
Videographer: Banna Bazzarie
Talent: Doug Mason
Styling: Ryann Lanel Redman
Photography Assistant: a l e x a 🦋
Music: fotakis

Years ago I started taking Elan and Chandler’s classes, separately, because i loved the way they taught. strength, endur...
08/17/2026

Years ago I started taking Elan and Chandler’s classes, separately, because i loved the way they taught. strength, endurance, mobility — not as separate practices, but things that build on each other and eventually find their way into everything else you do.
over time, i got to know them beyond the classes, and somewhere in there coaches became friends.

Then one day before one of her yoga classes, Chandler told me that she and Elan were starting something together, elsewheremvmt. Knowing them both, it just made sense. When they asked me to help figure out what that world could look like, I already felt close to what they were building.

We talked a lot about movement and how we wanted it to feel. Not perfect form frozen at the right moment, but the experience of actually being in it — the speed, the strain, the breath, the quiet between efforts, the moment your body starts to give and you keep going anyway.

The direction became something we found together. They gave me room to follow ideas, make things blurry, strange, still, sweaty, imperfect. and mostly, they trusted me.

I think that trust is somewhere in these pictures.

Creative direction and 📸 by 🙋‍♀️

Michelle Mason in Laguna
08/13/2026

Michelle Mason in Laguna

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