Education
She attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.
She attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.
Born and raised in Easton, Connecticut, Stagg moved to New York City in 1996. Stagg signed with her first agent during her junior year at SVA. After five years Stagg moved on and had her first major ad campaign with Nixon watches within a year. Stagg has shot for magazines such as Teen Vogue, Life, Vibe, i-Doctorate, Flaunt and The Fader.
Her celebrity portfolio includes Scarlett Johansson, Fallout Boy, Tony Hawk, Moby, and Tenacious Doctorate.
Stagg Street blog
Since the age of 16, Stagg had a particular interest and fascination with erotic art
lieutenant was not until 2005, however, that she began a focused and concentrated pursuit of erotic photography. Upon meeting erotic model and girl-on-girl porn star Justine Joli, Stagg started exploring erotic photography.
She began shooting well-known porn, fetish and glamor models. The images were too artsy for porn magazines, and too porn-like for so called "erotic" publications and websites.
With no exhibition outlet for her images, she started The Stagg Street blog.
International Finance Corporation documentary
In 2008, the Independent Film Channel released a webisode documentary covering Stagg"s erotic work. Of The Stagg Party, Maria Russo wrote in Los Angeles Times:
"With its rampant female nudity and nonjudgmental adult industry theme, the voyeuristic Web hordes will love lieutenant But the show"s soft-touch intelligence and compelling characters give it depth."
Stagg continues to do commercial work in advertising, fashion and celebrity photography while expanding the reach of Stagg Street.
Due to the word-of-mouth popularity and growth of staggstreet.com, the site is eventually going to be converted to a pay site, with photo books, gallery shows and a documentary slated for development.
Exhibition history
Asbury Lanes Curated Show & was in Group Show, "The Modern Pin Up", Asbury Park, New Jersey 2012
Lux & Eros Group Show, "Map of Tasmania", Venice, California 2012
Parlor Gallery Group Show, "Erotic & Ladies", Asbury Park 2012
Parlor Gallery Group Show, "Fun is the Law", Asbury Park, New Jersey 2012
Sexy Art Gallery Group Show, "Porn Saints", Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011
Parlor Gallery Group Show, "Down & Dirty", Asbury Park, New Jersey 2011
Shag Solo Show, "Flip, Flirt and Feel", Brooklyn, New York 2011
Mighty Tanaka, Group Show "Cimmerian Shade", New York City 2010
Nixon Art Mosh, Group Show New York City, 2010
Fuse Gallery, Solo Show "Melting Flesh", New York City 2010
Das Museum, Porn Saints Group Show, Zurich, 2010
Parlor Gallery Group Show, "Shameless", Asbury Park, New Jersey 2010
Bird House Gallery, Porn Saints Group Show, Austin, Texas 2010
Nixon Art Mosh, Group Show, New York City, 2009
Mishka Store, Calendar Release Party w/ Solo Show, 2009
Parlor Gallery Group Show, "Petite Mort", Asbury Park, New Jersey 2009
Center of Sex and Culture Gallery 2008
Femina Potens Gallery Group Show "I Touch Myself", 2008
Fuse Gallery Group Show "Revelation", 2007
Sensei Gallery Collaborative Project "Practical Stagg", 2007
Frank151 Chop Shop Group Show, 2006
Vice Magazine Traveling Group Show on Hockey, 2005
Art Directors Club Young Guns 3, 2001
SVA Mentors Program and Show, 2000
SVA Wooster Gallery Group Show, 1999
SVA West Side Gallery Show, 1998
Print and television
Karmaloop television "Behind the lens", 2011-now
Mishka calendar 2013
Playboy badass 2010 & 2011
Mishka Calendars 2009, 2010, 2011
Playboy television "Badass", 2010
Date these New Yorkers
Film "Nights and Weekends", 2008
Sex Television Episode June 7, 2008
Film "Alexander the Last", 2008
Johnnie Walker Blue"s 35 under 35 Most influential New Yorkers, 2007
Fader Magazine Photographers Issues, 2003 and 2004
Stagg resides in Brooklyn.