Mumbai: Manmeet Bhatti

Manmeet Bhatti has produced outstanding and visually stunning images across advertising, fashion and fine art. However, she experiences a different joy when shooting for kid’s brands - the unpredictability of children always leads to unexpected and magical results.

After the birth of her son, Manmeet discovered she had a full-time model on which to experiment. Shooting children took on a new meaning and she is a reservoir of patience, while being a mother herself makes her sensitive to a child’s perspective. She creates an environment of fun and lightness, helping to produce surprising, wonderful images.

Manmeet believes “You can’t force good work out of children, but you can create an environment in which they willingly contribute.”

Based in Mumbai, Manmeet has travelled across India as well as internationally for assignments. Her clients include Gini & Jony, Pantaloon, Westside, Economic Times, L'Oréal and Galaxy Chocolate, as well as magazines and editorials.

London: Tim Platt

"Generally speaking, kids just want to have fun."

Fun is an essential ingredient when photographing kids. Tim Platt has a natural affinity with children and a knack for keeping them positive, enthusiastic and spontaneous no matter how tricky or demanding the brief may be.

"It takes a combination of technical know-how, experience, a stimulating and exciting environment, a good team, a general willingness to make a fool of yourself and sometimes a lot of patience... to be ready for that iconic shot when it happens!"

Tim has been photographing children and babies for advertising and design clients for 20 years, working with many top brands including Sainsbury’s, Robinsons fruit drinks and McDonald's, as well as many pharmaceutical and healthcare products.

He also shoots and edits video. The links are for two versions of a short video filmed for a cancer drug for teenagers. The 'boxing' concept is a metaphor for fighting the illness.

Miami: Allana Wesley White

Allana Wesley White is a lifestyle advertising photographer specialising in kids and 'tweens, working throughout the USA and Canada from her base in Miami.

Allana came to photography from a modelling career that took her all over the world. While working abroad, she married a European photographer who gave her a camera and taught her first-hand how to make her ideas come to life in photography. Modelling has given her a unique perspective in her work, exposing her to many styles of creativity as well as teaching her how to capture each model's natural qualities. She has spent her life surrounded by kids and loves nothing more than mucking-in and making magical images with them.  

Children's wear campaigns include Urban Kids, Siblings and Elephantito.  Advertising clients include Neutrogena, Walmart, Graco Baby and Scholastic Books. Editorial clients include La Petite Magazine, Parents Magazine, Family Circle Magazine and Working Mother Magazine.

Berlin - Barcelona: Nino Gehrig

Nino Gehrig, temporarily based in Berlin during the summer, completed personal work about the next generation "Eco Boomers", loosely defined as those under the age of 21. The project was shot in the beautiful green areas of Berlin.

The teens came from Berlin Kids Agency Lichtkind while production and casting were handled by Anna Korehnke from KUKKMA and styling by Doreen Regel.

Barcelona: Paula Dietz Rauber

Barcelona based photographer Paula Dietz Rauber, has a masterful eye for kids photography, covering the full age range from babies to teenagers.

Paula has a real talent for making children feel comfortable in front of her camera and her fresh style captures natural and spontaneous expressions.

One of Paula's strengths, aside from her ablilty to work well with children, is to get the most out of natural light for her subjects. To compliment this she chooses vibrant colors that match the happy world of children.

In one of her recent projects, she has worked for Lanas Stop Magazine issues 107 and 113.

Dusseldorf: Burkhard Henrichs

Over the last two decades Burkhard Henrichs has combined his passions for fashion photography and kids photography and lined up an impressive list of clients including Falke, Esprit, Burlington, Schiesser, Camel, Daniel Hechter, Karstadt, Kaufhof, C&A and Neckermann. In advertising, his clients include Coca Cola, Motorola, Sony, Ltu, Johnson & Johnson, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz, Nissan as well as diverse publications and editorials.

His production office, located in the fancy Dusseldorf Media harbour, is his home base for working on studio shoots and outdoor productions from around the world.

Burkhard also offers an extensive location library with personally selected images of great locations around the globe, and his attention to detail, patience and reliability are always accompanied with a warm smile...

London: Matt Harris

Matt Harris is an award-winning London-based photographer who specialises in working with kids and people.

Matt has been very busy over the last few months shooting images in the UK, Canada, Mongolia, Guatemala and Cuba.

Clients have included Lilliput Fashion, Maui Jim sunglasses, Sweetwater Travel, Flora margarine and a number of pharmaceutical brands.

See more of Matt's work at his website.

Matt is represented in the UK by Sharon Brandman.

London: David Handley

David Handley is a renowned and award-winning photographer who has specialised in photographing children and babies for the last 12 years.

He shoots regularly for commercial and editorial clients worldwide such as Ralph Lauren, Boden, M&S and Next.

He is known for his ability to capture the naturalness of his subjects, as well as his compositional aptitude and knowledge of natural and studio lighting.

David collaborates with a team who regularly works with children and as a collective provides a child friendly and fun working environment.

Venice: Anna Bussolotto for PH CREW

Anna Bussolotto, based in Padova, has steadily developed her photographic style, her pictures featuring great spontaneity even in posed shoots. 

Anna specialises in fashion and advertising photography of children, working closely with Style Piccoli ed., RCS and My Holiday Magazine. Her work is recognisable not only for the clarity of her images but also for her extraordinary ability to interact with children so as to bring out the best in them, without losing their instinctive natural reactions.

Anna shoots both in the studio and on location, collaborating with a wide variety of baby models that she selects through periodic casting. She also photographs newborns for baby care advertising.

Hamburg: Alexandra Klever

Featured in this Spotlight is a range of recently completed editorial and campaign work from Hamburg-based people and kids photographer Alexandra Klever.

• Himbeer Magazine - Alex not only shot but also art directed this playful kids’ editorial for Himbeer Magazine, just released in Germany. "Outdoors going indoors in a way that only kids can do." 
• Indochine lookbook - Alex created this wonderful little story photographing babies with ethnic backgrounds for a lookbook for Berlin designer project InternationalWardrobe. 'Indochine 2011' is the name of the collection and it is a combination of vintage clothing collected from east Asian countries.