Hello. My name is Brian Schade and I am an award winning photographer and the founder of Life Stories Photography, LLC. I currently operate in good ol’ Sunny Sierra Vista, AZ. I was born and bred here in southern Arizona. I have called Sierra Vista my home town for my whole life. I am married with seven children, six of whom are still on the Earth with us (we lost our Angel Baby due to a congenital heart defect in 2009).

By trade I’m an Information Technology Professional. I have worked in IT for over twenty years, now. However, while I enjoy technology and getting computers to do things my true passion isn’t in computers at all. I’m a storyteller at heart, and ultimately what I really want to be doing is using that talent to help others tell their stories. Ironically, It was on a fateful trip to San Francisco for an IT conference when I realized that photography (and even video production) was what I really wanted to spend my time with. It was on that trip to San Francisco that I captured what turned out to be one of my best photographs ever.

So now I find myself pursuing what has so far been a very rewarding career in portrait and wedding photography. I am very grateful for the clients that have seen fit to hire me to help them document their family’s stories. And there is still so much for me to experience and learn. I look forward to the possibilities ahead and I hope to be able to help many more families tell their stories. I hope you like what you see here. If you have any questions about what I do, I would be happy to hear from you.