Denise Stephanie Hewitt is a Caribbean-American, Brooklyn-born visual artist and multi-hyphenate creative. Through a high-school program at Red Hook Labs Photography Studio, she began her career photographing an editorial for the inaugural edition of More or Less magazine, the March 2020 Marie Claire magazine Cover, and a Barneys New York 2018 campaign about her maternal grandmother's immigrant story. Hewitt is a returning Vogue.com contributor, photographing Met Gala coverage for Sha'Carri Richardson and Simone Biles during the 2021 season among community events like The Layout and critical events like the 2020 election. Her portraits have graced Essence magazine, Cultured magazine, the Converse Soho Flagship, Headline Gallery, the Apollo Theatre, Photoville, and the streets of New York and Times Square. Hewitt's personal photographic works live at the intersection of fashion, editorial, and documentary, with a primary focus of building an archive of Caribbean and American life, artistry, and autonomy through visual art. With the intimacies of her heritage as a guiding force, every project is personal and approached with a detail-oriented focus.

Alongside her imagemaking, Hewitt is a profound writer, model, and meticulous producer. Hewitt and her family were featured in family were featured in Tyler Mitchell's An Imaginative Arrangement of the Things Before Me exhibition at The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, with one piece acquired in the permanent collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Her production works span from creative producing and building a marketing team at the Black-female-owned fashion brand Tia Adeola to serving as director and co-producer of the up and coming interview series, Talking to the Internet.

Hewitt is currently a rising senior at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts studying Photography and Imaging, with a minor in the Business of Entertainment and Media Technology. During her time, she has served on the Tisch Black Student Council as a Photography Department Representative, spearheading new programming to engage students in the arts industry and build a cross-school community. Her leadership across academia and creative fields landed her in Essence Magazine's debut list of 10 Creators Under 30 working to deepen the impact of Black cultural production.