Stéphane Ippersiel is an Ottawa-based photographer and yoga teacher. Before focusing on his passions, he spent thirty years managing communications teams for the Government of Canada.
At the intersection of his two greatest passions, Stéphane’s been creating portraits of yogis since 2012. He aims to uncover and present a bit of the yogi’s spirit, while celebrating the beauty of the human body in motion, and advocating for yoga as a lifelong wellness modality.
His portraiture style harkens back to 1980s commercial photography, with the use of flash being a prominent feature. Stéphane’s influences include Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, Mark Seliger and Albert Watson.
Though portraits are his main interest, his lens is also trained on public art installations and architecture. Through-lines in his body of work are the shapes, tension and grace of both the human form and human-created structures.
Stéphane has been studying photography at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) since 2018, and has been mentored by its Director of Education, Michael Tardioli, since 2022. He is a member of Altern Studio, a collective of lens-based artists.
