Background
Wayda was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Southern California.
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Stephen Wayda
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After high school, he attended the University of Utah where he majored in journalism and political science.
Career
Wayda worked as a newspaper reporter at the The Salt Lake Tribune for seven years, where his photographs accompanied the stories he reported. While working for the Tribune, Wayda was honored for saving the life of Salt Lake City police officer Brent Elcock. Having developed a method to enhance the reproduction of photographs in the letterpress newspapers, Wayda began his commercial photography career taking newspaper photographs for Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), a Salt Lake City based department store, working with models from a local agency.
