Ethan Alfred Studios/Stacy review: Stacy Librandi is now Stacy Novitsky 42

Hi,

I was a second photographer for Stacy before her fire. I recently found a folder on an old hard drive that I let Stacy use to dump some memory cards after the fire had destroyed her computer and hard drives. She was going to use my computer to edit, but never did and I haven't heard from her since.
If you are Courtney Page, Felicia/Marcus, Gregor/Nicole, Kelly/Orouk, Kelly/Sean, Michelle/Jeffery, or Phoebe, please send me an email.

jeremy@jeremyharris.com

I will get you all the photos I have.

-Jeremy

Her address is:
108 Angola Road
Cornwall, N.Y. 12518
Current name:
Stacie Bourne [protected] & [protected])
She will not be at this address long (maybe a few days at most)...
She will be on the run once again...

Marryforgood.org? I have to believe it will not be long before the attorney general gets involved, or the IRS. She is a total deadbeat and will tell you lie after lie and twist everything like it is tragic for her. Criminal is appropriate description for someone that steals money and services.

Hello All,
I am a photographer who worked for Stacie Bourne and never got paid. I had no idea of her past and was even warned by a fellow photographer and never listened. She owes me $1, 000 for the wedding that I did for her and I have still yet to be paid from last October. The address in Cornwall is a PO Box and the one that is currently listed I have been told by the Cornwall courts that she was forced to move out of. This is a sick woman who takes money from both employees and clients.
The phone number I have for her is [protected], the email is stacie@marryforgood.org and the PO Box address is :
Marry For Good, Inc
PO box 534
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520
I am a reputable wedding photographer you can look me up, Samantha Lauren Photographie. I have never experienced this before and am sorely disappointed that anyone would use their own personal problems as an excuse for bad business.
Thanks very much and if you have any questions please feel free to email me at SamanthaLM@gmail.com

Dear Stacy,
You have promised to send our wedding pictures and assured they were not distroyed in the fire, but we never received them or heared back from you. I've sent you the contract, the address where to send them to, tried to reach you many, many times and never heard back from you. Our wedding was in September 2009. 3, 5 years ago! Edited or not, we just want our pictures. Or the full refund. I still take you at your word: "I have not forgotton about any promise I have made to anyone, and will not be whole until everyone affected by the recent events has been made whole as well"
God bless

and starnow.com she leaves her phone number. Hope this helps

u cannot search for her name but you can find her comments on the aforementioned photographers FB page. The organization donates proceeds to children in Haiti (or so it says)

shes on FB as Stacie Bourne and you can find her through her comments on Paulo Basseto Photography. Apparently she is now affiliated with MarryforGood.org.

If it looks like a con and sounds like a con...

Tried Stacy's "newer" email- the one she wanted the brides to use so she could make things right... It doesn't exist anymore! If anyone has a way to contact her- please post. I was married in 2009 and here we are going into 2012. Still no photos.

I was also married in may of 2009 and never saw photos! I was contacted by Stacey after the article came out in the Post and she promised me she would make things right by sending me my photos. We are still waiting... She doesn't respond to us...

Hey guys, She is totally a scam artist. I got married few years ago but this was before her "fire". She never showed up to my wedding leaving me with no photographer. We tried calling her a million times and she finally responded after weeks telling us she had been in a car accident on the way to the wedding. She was supposed to have an assistant that day but nobody ever called us to tell us she wasn't coming so we held up the wedding waiting for her. The whole ordeal was so awful. She tries to manipulate you into feeling sorry for her while she cons you. Fire, car accident, she is a liar and a scam. I feel terrible for her children if they even exist.

How did you get in contact with her? Do you have an e-mail address for her? I will take the unedited photos I don't care. I don't have any contact information for her. My wedding was in May 2009. I can have someone else edit them I just want what I paid for.

I seriously doubt they were ruined... my wedding was in 9/5/09 and I got them, on a disc, unedited. i think she is just a lazy piece of crap. It's just another lie. Tell her you want the unedited photos.

A simple Google search reveals that the Ethan Alfred Studios photographer, Stacy Novitsky, formerly Stacy Librandi, is now going by STACY BOURNE. (search string: Stacy + photographer + Haiti)

My husband and I recently discovered that our wedding photos were destroyed in the fire at her apartment in the fall of 2009, approximately three months after our wedding. Obviously, the fire was a tragedy and was clearly neither her fault nor within her control; however, Ms. Librandi/Novitsky/Bourne’s response to us, her clients, was within her control and was very unprofessional. It took twenty (20) months for her to finally tell us that our photos were irretrievable because they were on a computer that was damaged in the fire.

Ms. Librandi/Novitsky/Bourne has promised us a refund, but that does not change the fact that we have spent nearly two years anxiously awaiting the photos from our wedding. Those photos have not existed for 83% of that time, yet we were promised they were “safe” and that Ms. Librandi/Novitsky/Bourne was working on editing them so she could send them to us.

If there are any additional families who are awaiting their photos, we sincerely wish you luck. Hopefully your luck will be better than ours.

I urge you to check out this site. She's scamming innocent people out of money even in haiti.
http://ragutetkabrit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

Stacy we have contacted you at the posted email address and nothing! You replied to the first email and once we gaev you the scan of the contract yet again you vanised. You shot my wedding 2 years ago, where are the proofs. What now? you promised that we would have a disk with the proofs mailed to our home. NOTHING! We want nothing more than our pictures.We want nothing and nothing to do with your poor unprofessional business. i wil again send another email and of course don't expect to hear back from you.

I have never used Stacys "services" but you could say my boyfriend has. Unfortunately I have learned alot about Stacy and it seems she is an excellent story teller. Stacy was waiting tables and avoiding clients long before her apartment fire. It seems more time is spent as a groupie for the FDNY than it is making things right with clients. As for the pic in the NY Post, I have a hard time believeing it was so devastating when the same pics, up until very recently, were posted to the public on Facebook, My Space and Firefighter Nation. Good luck to the brides.

Stacy also promised she would make things right with us. Our wedding was in may of 2009 and we haveno photos! When she was posting apologies and making promises to finally get us our photos, I supported her and believed that she truly wanted to fix the mistakes she had made. She emailed me and said w
our photos were beautiful and she would put them in the mail. We never heard from her again and never received photos! Please if u would like to band together and try and get our photos back, contact me [protected]

It's almost 3 yrs since my wedding before your unfortunate incident so where are my pictures you promised? Aug 24 2008 Eric and Maria I'm still waiting Stacy I trusted you with my heart and you ran with it. Not fair..

FYI
Rumor has it that Stacy has abandoned her obligations yet again and has gone back to Haiti without notifying her clients (who were promised their photos weeks ago).

Hey everyone. I just wanted to tell you not to get your hopes up. I was the first Bride to "reconnect" with Stacy. Note: I NEVER said anything bad about her, I actually stuck up for her on all those websites. 2 months later I finally received a DVD from her... only 20 of the pictures were edited and she gave me ALL the photos she took at my Wedding, including the shots where my eyes are closed, pictures I never would want to see. I am so done dealing with her. I am currently working on a strategy with my lawyer. Talk to ya soon Stacy!

suluzbt,

I said I was done posting, but your last post confuses me and I just have to ask you something.

What "isn't over" yet? Are you making a threat? Have you contacted me at stacylibrandi@hotamil.com with your contract so I can make amends by working on your individual case to get your photos if they weren't destroyed, or deal with another request to be made whole? Isn't that all I can do, try to get whatever I can to you and help you? What else is there, besides you insisting on spreading this issue to every aspect of my life? If you took me to court, wouldn't they say I either owed you the money or the photos? That is what I am TRYING to do now, and I don't think you have even contacted me at the email I provided because I am going thru them trying to figure out who you could be and everyone who is writing is very calm and reasonable and I am working with them the best I can right now. Who are you? What do you say I owe you? How can I work on that if you don't contact me? What do you want from me beside to see my life destroyed? Are you even one of my clients, or an upset friend/family mamber? It doesn't seem you want your photos, you would rather not contact me and just continue the hateful remarks. If that's the case there is nothing I can do to help you. Email me, tell me who you are and what you need from me, and I will work on it from there. This isn't helping anything, and right now I just want to focus on getting the work done.

-Stacy

You are full of [censor] as usual Stacy...believe me...it isnt over yet...

Guys- come on! If I went through what Stacy went through, I would become depressed as well and just want to leave it all behind. She knows she did the wrong thing, and she is here to fix it. Please give her a break. Life hits us hard in one direction or another. I personally cannot imagine how hard it would be to shoot peoples wedding...going through a divorce. I know, I know, it was not right, but Stacy is keeping her promise...I should be getting my pictures soon, and then the album. Can we all try to cut her a little slack and as hard as it can be, realize what she went through. And the fact her kids have to suffer is horrible. The NY Post article took it too far.

So, yes, there is now an article of me with almost naked photos in the newspaper, photos that were meant as an intimate gift to my ex husband about 6 years ago. What was left of my life is ecompletely destroyed now and the rest will be very soon...and my kids are suffering more than ever now too. I am sure some of you will be happy to hear that. Go ahead and keep posting things here, I will not, I have said what I can and am doing all that I can do. Regardless, I swore I would not give up this time and will keep working toward making everyone whole. And for the last time, anyone needing to contact me can do so at stacylibrandi@hotmail.com

Thanks.
Stacy Librandi

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fotog_left_us_at_altar_brides_c1D0EK1pc85eTVZnk88NiK

jxmag- You state you have not heard from me and that you have written to the new email address I provided. I have bee n extremely careful to respond to everyone ASAP even though I do not have regular internet access. Please write again, and attach a copy of your contract (contracts were destroyed in the fire) and make sure you have the right address: stacylibrandi@hotmail.com
Thank you.
-Stacy

lggnj- if you went through a year and a half of wondering where your wedding pictures are after you paid in full then you would understand why I sound so harsh. After our wedding day I never ever heard from Stacy again. She would email me back only on occasion to promise a date that our pictures would arrive. That day would come and go without any contact, pictures, or explanation.

You say it's a good thing that we have an email to FINALLY get in touch with Stacy. As a professional, should I have to wait over a year to FINALLY get in touch with her after paying in full for her services! I have emailed her several times on her "new" email and STILL have heard nothing.

We can look back on our wedding day from photos friends have given us but the professional ones we paid for are missing. She doesn't even have the decency to call us and explain what happened! Instead, I have to find her babbling post on a complaints board!

If you just "feel bad" for her and have not experienced what we have...then please keep your comments to yourself.

To mvny, question, did you get your images? your post mentions asking for money not images, just curious to know what you're after? either way if you got your images why ask for money and continue the bad reviews? and if you didn't get your pictures how come now the only thing you want is money and not the memories of your "special day"? I thought that's what every bride posting here wanted? Your comments make no sense to me, I think you just want both. Guess what? that doesn't work!

I can understand people getting upset at someone for not delivering the work they were hired to do but really some of you guys are going a bit far in wishing her harm.. She we stone her to death? At this point I'd say wait and see, having an e mail to finally get in touch with Stacy is a step in the right direction..

To jxmag: What's your story?.. Seems like you too have nothing to say but wish Stacy should drop dead and die. Nice person you are.. If your taste for blood was that obvious on the pictures she took of you must be hard to retouch that ugly side of you, maybe that's why she still needs time to deliver?

I have emailed Stacy countless times about our wedding photos. She has always been FULL of excuses and since our wedding day LAST YEAR she has never once called me. She is as unprofessional as it gets! She completely avoided her clients and acted as if she had no obligations or contracts with anyone! She is a SCAM and I hope these complaints have reached so many that she will never be able to take another picture for money again! Karma is a [censor] and what goes around comes around. I am not surprised that this woman has had the hardships she describes!

Figures...I emailed Stacy, twice, at the email address she listed and asked her for my money back. Haven't heard from her. I don't know if anyone can believe the plea she wrote above. Stacy, if you really are trying to make amends and change your ways, please muster up a little ounce of respect for your clients who have been waiting patiently for over a year, and send us a response. It's just the decent thing to do! Come on, already!

Whoever posted the last comment, if you are a past client please contact me by the email I have provided so that I can see what can be done. I will either get you images or your money, depending on if they were lost in the fire. I can not know how to help you if I don't know who you are or have a copy of your contract. So please email me with a copy of the contract attached. Thank you. Also, please understand that I am getting to everyone that is emailing me but that I have to do it one at a time since I can only do one thing at a time. Stacylibrandi@hotmail.com

Wow...intriguing story...but sounds awfully way too familiar to me. Ever since i have dealt with you, you have been a great story teller...an excuse maker...a fabricator. I dont believe one word regardless it was true or not or prove of. The story is touching and all but fact of the matter is that you have stolen MONEY...money that was entrusted to you by people who put their trust and faith in you to do a job. You have failed so many that I cant believe that there were so many complaints about you. Obviously there is something wrong...not just a blatant rant here and there about disappointments but truly legit scam that you have been doing. it's called GRAND LARCENY is what you have done, and regardless of the stories of your hardships. We've gone through worse...we were robbed...lost our trust..scammed...we went through hard times, emotional waves of disappointment, you not only ruin a once in a lifetime events for us but you also scarred us emotionally. There is nothing you went through that compares to what you INTENTIONALLY did to us.

Yea..so you try to make amends..how? dates have already passed...wedding is already done...money already taken and spent by you...what can you do to make amends! You are such full of crap and that it pisses me off that I have to waste time in my busy life to earn a paycheck to write this comment, but if it warns someone else or helps anyone else out there...then my goal is briefly achieved...no worries..this is truly not the end...believe me.

Whoever posted the comment calling the brides "spoiled [censor]es" may feel defensive of me based on what he/she saw while I was in Haiti, however it is completely NOT how I feel about my past clients, and that was completely uncalled for and irrational behavior whoever did that.

I am Stacy Librandi.

Everyone, I lost everything in a huge fire that started in the deli beneath my apartment in the Bronx in 2009. I was reduced to sleeping in my car for a while, no insurance family friends (I was divorced just before the fire, a new single mom of 3, and I have no support network in NY since I am from CA). My account was overdrawn within a month of the fire as I desperately scrambled to avoid homelessness, and keep my childeren. All I had to my name was my car and my 2 cameras, and whatever else was in my car at the time of the fire. EVERYTHING ELSE WAS GONE.

This is not an excuse, this is what happened, and it is absolutely a nightmare for everyone it affected, and the ripples of the event reach far and to absolutely every aspect of my life, and invade other's lives as well. I ended up having to turn in my plates to the DMV because I could not afford the car insurance while I tried to get money together for a new apartment. So now I had no car, no home, no job, no money, nothing...and I could barely even see my own kids which was the most devestating part of it all.

The world was crashing down on me, and I became very depressed, got a job waitressing 50 hours a week and still couldn't make ends meet. I knew the ONLY way I could make enough money to start helping my clients again was to start shooting again. I TRIED to get a job for another photography company using my maiden name, because the complaints on the web assured I'd never work as a photographer again. It was about a week later, before I got the job, that my maiden name was used in the complaints online. I threw in the towel, and just went back to waitressing, and felt that it was hopeless to try and help my clients because I couldn't even make enough to pay my rent let alone food and clothes for my 3 kids.

A fire took the business that shot your wedding, and this had horrible results for you, and that same fire destroyed my life. Now, all of you that think I am a cold heartless [censor], please try to imagine for a second that the truth is I deeply care for others, and many times I overextend myself because of this. My entire life has been filled with obstacles to overcome, and opening my own wedding photography business was the highlight of my life and I felt my life was finally coming together, but it all came crashing down so fast that I just crumbled with it. The reviews online are more than just reviews, they hurt becuase I DO care and I just couldn't do anything about it. And yes, that helplessness made me do wrong things like avoiding contact and not responding to the reviews. I just had to close my eyes for a little while to survive. That's all it was, just trying to make it out of the mess alive and hopefully be able to put things back together as things calmed down and after I got on my feet (and by "on my feet" I simply mean just being able to meet very basic needs). I don't want anyone to feel bad for me, really, I just need people to know the truth about why things happened the way they did.

Then, the devestating earthquake in Haiti happened. I feel I need to address my time spent in Haiti because it has been attacked on every level from me there to exploit the refugees to me being a bad mother. My kids were still living mostly with family at the time, I was working at a restaurant and couldn't make the upcoming rent. I was sleepwalking thru life, I can't even describe how it felt to be that low. I felt an extremely strong pull to go there that I can't explain, and I thought it was to take photographs. The most extreme thing I ever did...I took my cameras and the money I had for rent and went to Haiti, supposed to only be there for 8 days.

I got to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and had to hitch hike to Port-au-Prince, alone, 6 days after the quake. It was terrifying but I kept feeling the push to be there. My first stop was a "clinic" on the border, and the human suffering was so heavy I had to put my camera down. I knew immediatly I wasn't there for photography. I jumped in and began helping however I could, comforting people as they died, helping carry people accross the feild to the OR tent...only took about 10 photos, and they were terrible, distracted, crap images. The next few days I was in Port-au-Prince and I was attached to a search and rescue team and shot them while they looked for survivors. My photos were not good, and I was too upset and felt so useless standing there with my stupid cameras.

I put the cameras in my tent the next day, and didn't shoot much for the next 5 days except what I needed to document the camps we were assessing and to bring back images to show how many people there were per camp, which got me the right amount of supplies. I used what little money I had left to get a truck and start distributing food because hardly ANY aid was getting to the people due to logistical difficulties and red tape, and being that I was a lone wolf I actually could get the aid out faster than the people who are supposed to do it. Haitian people that had survived the quake were dying right in front of me from dehydration. My cameras remained mostly in my tent while I organized food/water/tent distribution to many refugee camps in the city while much of the UN and NGO's sat with their hands tied. I KNEW that was the real reason I came.

I began helping the US Military get access to aid, since at the time even they had difficulties getting thru the red tape. My 8 days were up, but there was not a chance I could stop then. I missed my kids desperately, as did ALL the relief workers, military, UN people with families back home. I knew they were safe and, and that I would be home to them soon.

I moved off the UN base and into a tent city of over 4, 500 refugees, living with them and working with them to set up the flow of aid they needed to survive. I became very ill with intestinal parasites, exhaustion and fever and had to move back to a military compound where I recovered. During this time I picked up my cameras again, and did get many portraits of people there, but his time I was shooting as a trusted friend that they knew and were familiar with...not some self centered journalist from NYC. As soon as I was better I was back at the mission of providing logistical help to NGO's who needed my help...and ther were many.

I finally left Haiti after spending 3 and a half months there. No, I didn not use the suffering of the people to further my "carreer" in photography. I came back from Haiti with a renewed sense of courage and with my chin up and ready to fight for my life back. So I am. Fighting, again, and I will not give up this time. Things are coming together now, and it is NOT a quick process...it took over a year for my life to fall apart so I expect it to take as long to repair. But I am moving forward, and I hope people can understand that I am not a bad person, I just became overwhelmed with huge problems and had no where to turn. It is not easy to have my darkest point in my life played out for all to see on the web, but that is just how it is this day and age...So as difficult as it is to make thses statements publically I know that I am being honest and it will eventually be healed.

I have not forgotton about any promise I have made to anyone, and will not be whole until everyone affected by the recent events has been made whole as well. I am sure this statement may be picked apart and turned into fuel against me, but I was honest and it came from the heart.

IF YOU ARE A PAST CLIENT please email me at StacyLibrandi@hotmail.com and please attach a copy of our contract as all my copies/contacts/computer were destroyed in the fire. I know a couple of you were in touch with me since the fire, and due to me not handling the depressing situation I lost contact with you, and I am sincerely sorry for that. I will move thru each client one at a time until all are fulfilled, I believe there are 5 that need help.

Thank You for reading and God Bless.

- Stacy

Has anyoe considered starting a class action suit?

Stacy scammed us as well. Our 2nd anniversary is coming up in July and we have not received our photos. She does not respond to phone calls, emails or regular mail.

For those interested, she seems to be on Twitter under the name "BronxNewsGirl."

Stacy Librandi/Novitsky is not as charitable as her trip to Haiti may make her seem. She left her three young children behind for several months so she could exploit the devastation the people of Haiti are experiencing in a desperate attempt to further her photography career. She has no real concern for anyone but herself.

$100 in her pocket? I saw a youtube video of her in Haiti with two big ### nikon DSLR's which is easily $2000, but she had huge lenses on them for close-ups...so I'd say she had $100 in her pocket (yeah right), but had $10, 000 in equipment on her shoulder. You think a hot ### like her is going to go into poverty stricken Haiti without backup money? If you believed she only brought $100 then you're as gullible as the brides she scammed. And Ive seen other bridal companies screw over brides by going out of business so really whats the use of whining? All I know is, she definately didnt bring the clothes on her back because she had two big nikon cameras with two huge lenses..I'm telling you the lenses mustve been $5000 for the pair.

can someone help me locate her. Married 5.16 and no word since october 09. I can't get over this!