Jonathan Knowles is a London based photographer specializing in beautifully composed graphic still life, liquid and people photography.
His unique photographic style has earned him award winning, national and international advertising commissions working with advertising agencies worldwide.
In the past six years he has consistently featured in the ‘200 Best Advertising Photographers in the World’ books.
South African photographer Marc Shoul has worked for various local and international magazines and advertising agencies. Through his personal work he explores themes of social relevance and change within South Africa, Africa and overseas. Marc studied professional photography at Nelson Mandela University.
Marc Shoul, was born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in a recent interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present. Though he has intensively worked on documenting Johannesburg’s energies and transformations and on informal settlements surrounding Cape Town, this interview focuses principally on “Brakpan”, his latest body of work, which recently received the first prize at the 2011 Winephoto award, as well as a special mention for his series, “Flatlands”.
Akos works as a fashion photographer based in New York City. Some of his Clients include advertising Agencies like McCann-Erickson Worldwide, TBWA, FCB, Young and Rubicam , etc. His clean, sensual, and accessible style of photography has graced the pages of fashion magazines like Vogue Bellezza, Vogue Taiwan, and has also worked for ELLE, Marie Claire.
Introduced to photography by his photographer father, Akos had a chance meeting with Helmut Newton that convinced him to follow his passion. After assisting in Paris for a year he found himself back in his native Switzerland working for cosmetics giant Nivea. London was to follow, and eventually New York.
Akos has worked with top brands such as L’Oréal, Maybelline, Clairol, Wella, Nivea and Nordstrom. With his artful touch and flair for the sublime, he has truly carved a niche for himself in the world of fashion and beauty.
Indrani is an Indian-Canadian director, photographer, and digital artist. She is known for her work for celebrities, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and fashion magazines. She often works with photographer Markus Klinko.
Indrani was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and began a successful modeling career at 14, in order to work closely with great photographers and artists around the world. She studied philosophy at spiritual centers along the way, especially Vivekananda Vedanta, initiated by Swami Bhuteshananda, President of the Ramakrishna Order in India.
Indrani graduated Magna Cum Laude (High Honors) from Princeton University with a BA in Anthropology in 2001. At Princeton, she spearheaded the student movement to create a Program in South Asian Studies, and revived the teaching of Sanskrit. Simultaneously she mastered digital postproduction art and developed her photography with Klinko.
Des Kleineibst has been a professional advertising photographer in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa since 1980 and internationally since 1999.
He specializes in Automotive Photography shooting cars and trucks in studio and on location for above and below the line advertising agencies, CGI, Virtual Tours for Automotive 360 Exteriors and Interiors and Tourism websites.
Landscapes, Seascapes, Motion and Textures In Nature are his other passions.
Des Kleineibst is an automotive location and studio photographer with 28 years of experience. His passion for landscapes has taken him into the virtual world of CGI, leading him to invest in Spheron HDR and Panoscan camera systems and to open his own in-house CGI studio.
Des has been shooting on high-end PhaseOne and Hasselblad digital systems for nine years and owns his co-built 10m carbon fibre rig. He lives in Cape Town and has shot for all the major car ad agencies in South Africa. He maintains car studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.