Professional Photographer and Graphic Designer, based in Pretoria. Business owner, Crystal McLeod is available for Studio and Location Photography as well as Graphic and Web Design.
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Nelson Simoneau
Nelson Simoneau is a young canadian fashion photographer and shares his time between Paris and the United States.
He is becoming a name in the world of fashion photography by working for press and advertising.
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Koichiro Doi
Koichiro Doi, born in Tokyo, studied fashion design before shifting his focus to photography. His main passion was for still life, but he acquired technical techniques and skills in beauty photography as well.
He studied fashion at Parsons School of Design before realizing that it was actually photography he aspired to pursue. Upon his return to Tokyo he began to shoot and develop his own techniques, without any formal training. Seeing his portfolio and the roster of cutting edge brands and companies he has worked with, it is easy to see he has mastered the craft of beauty and still life photography.Doi shoots for numerous magazines such as Vogue Nippon, Harpers Bazaar Japan, Frech Magazines, Numéro and Spur. Doi now works between Tokyo and Paris.
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Mario Gerth
Mario Gerth is a Dutch journalist and a photographer. He has travelled to more than 75 countries on five continents. Throughout his travels he has witnessed the beauty of many cultures, as well as civil war, violence and poverty. His photographs have been exhibited international and published in numerous magazines.
“Beautiful and dynamic portraits by Dutch photographer Mario Gerth. Beautiful is an understatement in this case, Mario’s subjects span from different regions across Africa, from countries such as Namibia, Niger, Kenya, Mali and Ethiopia”, (African Digital Art Newtork 2013).
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Eric Lafforgue
Eric Lafforgue, born in France 1964, is a travel photographer. Working with digital and film (Hasselblad H4D-50, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon 5D Mark III, Leica M6), he travel’s to share his encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and of course his love of photography. He started taking photographs in 2006 and he quickly became known. His imagery have appeared both printed and digitally in publications such as National Geographic’s, The CNN traveller, BBC, The Blue Planet, New York Times, Lonely Planet, GEO and numerous more.
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Cristina de Middel
Cristina de Middel is a Spanish born photojournalist, who is now based in London. De Middels work deliberately questions the viewer and is a reconstruction or archetype which blurs the line between fiction and reality. She has been selected for five solo exhibitions and received numerous awards between 2009 and 2013.
Her most recent and well known series entitled “Afronauts,” where De Middel stages photographs of the Zambian Space program in 1964. “Astronauts” in training in an African landscape with colourful space suits. De Middel creates imagery representing cultural identity by assigning a futuristic appearance of how this space program could have been. De Middel states, Not only because the story is positive, in terms of African people having dreams, but also evidencing what we expect from Africa in terms of aesthetics and behaviour, (2013).