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Post by: Shana A on March 17, 2010, 08:38:32 AM
Tributes to Poole photographer

7:00pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
By Diana Henderson

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/5064770.Tributes_to_Poole_photographer/# (http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/5064770.Tributes_to_Poole_photographer/#)

Tributes have flooded in after talented Poole photographer Stephanie Penrose died from a rare form of cancer aged 60.

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Her work was her life but as the Daily Echo disclosed in 2006 she had a colourful history.

She started life as Paul and, in a process which took 10 years, underwent a sex change, with surgery in December 1999. In her own words she became the "fully functioning woman" she knew she should have been since the age of four – and was completely accepted as such.