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photographerMIRANDA STEINPortrait of Miranda’s classmate Jordan Marks from Miranda’s photography exhibit “13.”the gallery opening.To prepare for the show, over the summer Mirandabegan photographing as many people as she could, usinga handy Sidekick camera phone or her mom’s Nikon. Hersubjects included guys at the pool who were teaching herbrother, Ethan, to swim; her friend from Polytechnic School,Frances Anderton, host and producer of KCRW,said, “Miranda Stein paints with her camera;she has a sense of composition and visualstorytelling that belies her years.”who is learning to be a golf pro; and her fellow eighthgradersfrom Clairbourn. After a lot of hard work fromher entire family, her exhibit, “13”—a collection of blackand white photographs, opened on Saturday, September29, 2007 at the Catina Ferraine Gallery in Pasadena.Miranda describes “13” as a photographic story of 13-year-old kids from Pasadena, California, living out theirown “private school and shopping mall soap operas,”based in a larger world that is foundationally uncertain.Not only was the show a hit, but the photographswere shown to the band Matchbox Twenty by Moon UnitZappa, a friend of Miranda’s mom, and wife of the band’s8 BRANCHING OUT SPRING 2008