Being short has its advantages sometimes. In 1991, Stephanie Jennings was a young, talented and up-and-coming music photographer based in Philadelphia working for a local rock magazine. That September, the Huntsville native and University of Alabama grad got the opportunity to shoot on the red carpet and backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards, or VMAs, in Los Angeles.

Jennings isn’t the tallest individual, which worked out just fine at the VMAs. “I was able to get in the front,” she recalls now, “so people [other photographers] were still able to shoot.” She adds, “No pun intended, or pun intended, I was very focused on what I was doing. You know, I wasn’t talking to anybody, just very focused on who was coming through, super excited to see everybody and take their picture.”

The ’91 V

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