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  • Stef de Klerk

    Stef de Klerk

    Born in the Eastern Cape, in South Africa, Stef de Klerk was raised among the amaXhosa people and absorbed their local culture and language from a very young age. Being fluent in Xhosa has certainly assisted in his choice of models for his work, which serves to create awareness of the innate beauty of the heritage of dance and movement among this group of people.

    Having a clear passion for dance, he has been photographing the human form in movement since 1996. In these images he captures the often ignored aspects of the male figure; via their gentle, elegant, creative, emotional and sensual nature.

  • David Molnar

    David Molnar

    David Molnar’s first camera was borrowed from his father for his photography classes as a freshman in high school. Since then, a camera has never left his hands. Growing up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the warmth of the sun’s first rays and smell of the salty air was as much of a learning tool as it was an inspiration.

    David followed a girl to Nashville with the mindset that he would bring her back to a small historic coastal town and live a slow pace of life. However, immediately after arriving in town, David found himself on the sets of shoots with some of Nashville’s greatest commercial and entertainment photographers. He assisted Jeremy Cowart, Mark Tucker, Russ Harrington, Kristin Barlowe and others before he was ready to take the reigns and start as a full-time photographer.

    Music city has been a fantastic launching pad for David who claims to be a secret “scream the lyrics at the top of his lungs in the car” music lover. With clients like Atlantic Records, Sony BMG, EMI, INO Records and artists such as Skillet, MercyMe, Newsboys, Thousand Foot Krutch, Tricia Brock, Hawk Nelson and more, David has honed his skills in the entertainment world. In addition to the entertainment industry, he is also focusing on advertising campaigns for companies like March of Dimes, Dolby and Centura Health.

    Recently, David has been getting back to the natural outdoor beauty that inspired him to begin shooting when his voice was still cracking and the scenes from surf magazines covered his walls from floor to ceiling. Because of his deep faith in living out love like Jesus, David uses his photography to aid in philanthropic work to wipeout hunger, disease, and extreme poverty. He’s teamed up with Global Support Mission and their project KnowThinkAct.com, which David utilized to gather funding for a well in Uganda instead of friends and family purchasing him birthday presents. He was able to get his hands muddy and actually help dig the well while in Uganda shooting with Global Support Mission.

    CLIENTS: Atlantic Records, Sony BMG, DOLBY, EMI, INO Records, Tooth and Nail Records, InPop Records, Six Steps Records, Passion Conferences, Catalyst Conferences, Q Management Group, The Media Collective, Teen Mania Ministries, Charisma Magazine, Fair Trade Services, HM Magazine, ParentLife Magazine, Centura Health, St. Anthony’s Summit Hospital, Summit Cardiology, The Winn Group, Howling Music, Jim Jam Entertainment, MergePR, Global Support Mission, KnowThinkAct, See Spark Go, RipCord and others.

  • Marcus Maschwitz

    Marcus Maschwitz

    Marcus Maschwitz is currently living in London (United Kingdom) and specialises in Music and Band Photography including live music photography, portrait photography as well as album photography that can be used for artwork as well as marketing.

    He has no philosophy about photography. Like writing or breathing air, he just started doing it. And somehow it all seems to work. He loves it and has a passion for everything and everyone that he has the privilege of photographing.

    Basically, to sum it all up, his goal is to capture as well as to create as best he can, enabling him to share his experiences and what he sees with others. All this, because his love and passion for photography and the world around him is so great and what he lives for. He really enjoys shooting lifestyle photographs and working with bands, but he is up for anything new and really open to ideas.

  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working for Vogue. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She is one of the worlds most influential portrait photographers.

    Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008).

  • Julia Kuzmenko McKim

    Julia Kuzmenko McKim

    My name is Julia Kuzmenko McKim, and I’m a professional Beauty and Portrait photographer, digital artist and retoucher. I am also an International College of Professional Photography (Melbourne, Australia) graduate, NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) member, and represented by Aston Models Agency, Beverly Hills, CA (info@astonmodels.com).
    It’s been about 6 years since I started my wonderful journey into the world of Digital Photography and Retouching. Like many, Photography wasn’t the profession I chose right out of school. I spent many years gaining higher education and climbing the career ladder in the financial industry in Moscow, Russia. That’s probably the only dull and boring part of my story.
    MY STORY
    I started traveling when I was 12, and at 19, my quick trip to Egypt changed the course of my life forever. I came back to cold Moscow, packed my bags for a longer trip, bought a one-way ticket back to Hurghada, Egypt, and in 3 weeks I was running around the little resort town looking for a job.
    I must say I’m fearless when it comes down to making life-changing decisions, but I never sat and waited for Lady Luck to come knock on my door. You know, “the harder I work, the luckier I get” they say.
    EGYPT
    I spent 2 years in Egypt, and got to do some amazing things. I was a SCUBA Diving Instructor Assistant for a few months: every day in the Red Sea, diving, snorkeling, swimming with dolphins, feeding the big-lipped Napoleon fish, escaping moray eels. Oh yeah, the mind-blowing Red Sea underwater world!
    I was still looking for a better paying job and soon got lucky again! I came to visit the biggest Traveling Agency in Hurghada (which had already turned me down once before) exactly at the time when one of their Russian guides left for home. And that’s how I became a tour guide in Egypt at 19. I spent many weeks reading all the books I could get my hands on about Ancient Egypt history. I soon started going to Cairo and Luxor with excursions for Russian tourists as a representative of Cairo Express Travel agency, the largest traveling agency working with Russians in Egypt at the time.
    That was another fairy tale period of my life – Cairo and The Pyramids of Giza on Mondays, the ancient temples of Luxor, the singing Colossi of Memnon, Karnak, Valley of the Kings and the Tutankhamun tomb on Thursdays. Every week. It feels like it was a dream now!
    It was all great, but also very tiring. We did not have weekends or days off, and by the time I was just about to turn 21, I decided to take a break and go back to Russia to get my higher education. Egypt was so much fun, but I had to think about my future too.
    MOSCOW
    That’s where the blurry, monotonous office plankton life started. I studied Finance & Accounting at the State University of Economics and Statistics for 5 years, while working at the Financial Department of Marriott Hotels of Moscow. I ended up getting a great job at Caterpillar Financial upon my graduation, and in a couple of years another great job at a multi-million dollar Brunswick Rail freight railcar leasing firm. Great pay, great status – I’m a Senior Accountant with a few Accountants reporting to me, but spending 80 hours a week at the office. A dream job after all those years, right?
    It wasn’t all that bad, of course. I traveled all over Europe visiting Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Turkey and Poland. But the everyday life in Moscow was very uninspiring. I bought my first camera in 2006, a Canon 400D, as a creative outlet to release stress. And in a matter of weeks, I was all consumed by my newfound passion! I started buying all sorts of photography equipment, and shooting with anyone who could find the time for me. I’d spend hours browsing through beautiful images on the web, hoping that maybe one day I would learn to take beautiful pictures too.
    Interestingly enough, my husband Jason, who was just a friend of a friend and a pen pal back then, was the first and only person to support me and told me to go for it. No one else among my friends and family thought it was a good idea to quit a great and secure job and become a photographer. Crazeeey….
    But I did. After a year of shooting on weekends, learning studio lighting, reading all possible books and magazines on photography and Photoshop, I made another life-changing decision: I quit my job and went to Melbourne, Australia to study Photography.
    AUSTRALIA
    Boy, was it the best time of my life! (Again!) Monday through Friday – it’s all about Photography, lighting, models, fellow-photographers. Amazing city, incredible continent, and wonderful Aussie people – can it get any better? Kangaroos, koala bears, and cockatoos in the wild. Port Phillip Bay, Great Ocean Road, Twelve Apostles and the beautiful nature of the state of Victoria. Absolutely fabulous times!
    I started marketing my Photography services right away, and pretty soon I was a staff photographer at an international modeling agency, shooting for big and small businesses, and working on CD album covers for famous Australian musicians.
    I was born once again in Australia – this time as a photographer and visual artist. Melbourne is my second home, and I am forever in love with Australia and Australians! I was fortunate enough to have met many amazing, beautiful, crazy talented people, and made more friends in 3 years than in my entire life before Australia.

  • Michael Robert Williams

    Michael Robert Williams

    Photographer Michael Robert Williams grew up in the small town of Congleton, just south of Manchester in North West England. Some time later he moved to London armed with a camera, a photography degree, enough money to live on for a couple of months, and whatever would fit in the back of the car.

    Still based in London, today Michael is well known for his portraits of musicians, including Kasabian, La Roux, The Killers, Oasis, Ian Brown, Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, The Maccabees, and Portishead to name just a few, and other celebrities from the worlds of sport, film, and music.

    His portraits have featured in many publications around the world, including Filter, Clash, Uncut, Time, Die Zeit, 944, FMS, and NME. In addition to portraits for magazines Michael has produced artwork and promotional images for record labels and artist management, and commercial clients including adidas, Microsoft, Philips, JCPR, and American Rag Clothing.