Simone Staff

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

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 cor

al 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.

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.

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

Personal branding work with Madisyn Sloane Maniff lululemon
08/07/2026

Personal branding work with Madisyn Sloane Maniff lululemon

Every so often I revisit a body of work and remember the person I was when I made it.This story became my first magazine...
08/01/2026

Every so often I revisit a body of work and remember the person I was when I made it.

This story became my first magazine cover with Moevir, but somehow I always find myself coming back to the frames that never made the final edit.

Maybe because they remind me of why I started making photographs in the first place. There’s something about old boats, soft evening light, and making pictures with no thought beyond chasing the feeling. Producing the shoot, shaping the creative, and photographing it all reminded me that curiosity has always been my favorite compass.

It’s funny how the images that linger aren’t always the ones everyone sees. They’re often the quiet moments in between—the ones that still feel alive years later.

The work changes. The goals change. But the feeling of discovering an image you didn’t know existed never gets old.
Maybe that’s why I still come back to these.

I think those are the photographs worth holding onto.

A little fun moment showing some BTS with my shoot with Logan Kemp 🤍 Logan was so easy to work with, and the collaborati...
07/27/2026

A little fun moment showing some BTS with my shoot with Logan Kemp 🤍 Logan was so easy to work with, and the collaboration of the project was so apparent! Continuing to push the direction in sport and fashion I want to head towards, and lucky to work with such incredible people on every job I do!

USAL PROJECT X ATHLETA with a great gang of womenjordyn romero Aika BK⚡️ NAOMI kaye ☁️🦋🪐🧿🫧 Jaime Wood Laura Quintana Sam...
07/22/2026

USAL PROJECT X ATHLETA with a great gang of women

jordyn romero
Aika
BK⚡️
NAOMI
kaye ☁️🦋🪐🧿🫧
Jaime Wood
Laura Quintana
Sammy Hunter
Taylor Davis
lucyjean333
kyleen likas
Em

Felt like we were making stills from a movie with this one. Not everything has to stay inside the lines. Featuring JANNA...
07/07/2026

Felt like we were making stills from a movie with this one. Not everything has to stay inside the lines. Featuring JANNA JALLA 🇵🇭

Creative direction and photography by me
Assist: Liam Mathers
Styling: mrworldwideneck

Caroline Sullivan in JOLYN at sunset Photographer: 🙋‍♀️CD: a l e x a 🦋 Stylist: ᴡᴀʀᴅʀᴏʙᴇ ꜱᴛʏʟɪꜱᴛ & ꜱᴇᴛ ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴᴇʀ
06/22/2026

Caroline Sullivan in JOLYN at sunset

Photographer: 🙋‍♀️
CD: a l e x a 🦋
Stylist: ᴡᴀʀᴅʀᴏʙᴇ ꜱᴛʏʟɪꜱᴛ & ꜱᴇᴛ ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴᴇʀ

In honor of going back to a very special place in my heart with a job that baby girl Simone would not believe she would ...
06/16/2026

In honor of going back to a very special place in my heart with a job that baby girl Simone would not believe she would be able to do…and still trying to achieve more in her career ♥️ this post is for 10 yer old grommet me, never give up on your goals little dreamer

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