Miranda Penn Turin hates bios - especially the cringey way they’re always written in the third person, as if we all didn’t know who’s writing these things. She was born in Boston and still loves the accent, which she may bust out at any given moment. Miranda started shooting when she was about 16, became a ‘professional photographer’ in her twenties and continues to find different ways to define what that means. It can be shooting on set with a cast of celebrities, on location with a glam team and a motorhome, or by herself on far-flung edges of the planet. Her favorite subject is pretty much whatever is in front of her - she’s happiest with a camera in her hand.

Despite the fact that her former agent told her that she needed to be meaner, especially to her crew, Miranda remains weirdly good-natured and friendly to pretty much everyone. She has been honored with awards, yada yada, this biographer isn’t going to bore you with a list.

Speaking of lists! Miranda is a multi-hyphenate (there goes a hyphen right there), photographer-director-writer who has the best crew in the universe and loves her extended family of creative collaborators. Her favorite vice is cussing.

Miranda lives in unincorporated Castaic, LA County’s best kept secret, with her husband Bonsai Bob and their Catahoula mix, Riley B King.