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spotlight magazine Oct 2019 kids photography
Buenos Aires - New York: Lucila Blumencweig
Lucila is super happy that one of the images from her Patagonia trip project has won the Kids category of this year's Spotlight Awards.
Working with children has always been fun for her, she can connect on a deep level with kids so they enjoy their time, whilst achieving an amazing result on each campaign.
Lucila has recently shot the latest Salmoriagui & Vighano campaign in Italy, where she captured some key visuals with children. She has also been working for Coca-Cola Olympics 2020, YPF, Livean and Mercado Libre.
At the moment she is looking forward to shooting a fashion editorial campaign for kids with cool brands that want to team up with her. To collaborate with Lucila please reach out to her.
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spotlight magazine Oct 2019 kids photography
London: Sam Bénard
London-based photographer Sam Bénard specialises in sports photography and environmental portraiture. His work is recognisable through his distinctive and unique photographic style, combined with a considered post production treatment. Recently gaining him recognition in a further two categories in the 2019 Spotlight Awards, for the Kids and Documentary & Travel categories.
This shortlisted image for the kids category was from a series based around youth baseball participation in Japan. Like most of Sam’s work, this project was shot on location, and focuses on storytelling and the exploration of different subcultures.
Recent commissions include shooting for clients like Visa and shooting the launch campaign for the Gallagher Premiership Rugby 2019/20 season, as well as working with agencies like VCCP, Spark44 and the Bright Partnership.
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spotlight magazine Oct 2019 kids photography
London: David Handley
David is a long-established and award-winning photographer specialising in children and baby fashion.
His client list includes Ralph Lauren, Marks & Spencer, Boden, Next, White Company and Mothercare, shooting campaigns, brochures and advertising.
Past merits include the title ‘Sony World Fashion Photographer’ and other awards in competitions such as PDN Exposure, International Photographer of the Year, One Eyeland Awards and more.
David's experience and patience with children are amongst his greatest assets, allowing him to capture outstanding, natural pictures of children and babies."Working with children is very unpredictable, energetic and fun, which makes it very rewarding. I love working with kids, in fact I used to be one".
He has also lectured at Central St Martins University of Arts in London and runs an online course for ‘Learning With Experts’ teaching people how to improve their skills at photographing children and babies.
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spotlight magazine Oct 2019 kids photography
Amsterdam: Nadja Pollack
Nadja Pollack is a German photographer based in The Netherlands. Her stylish kids images have attracted private as well as commercial clients worldwide. Besides the purely photographic aspect of her work, she is interested in the artistic side of it, which helps her to come up with unique images full of inspiration.
She has published in a diversity of kids magazines such as Hooligans Magazine, Junior Style London, Sandcastle Magazine, Mini Maven, Milk Korea and Magazine Kids, and works with a lot of independent fashion labels in the kids fashion industry.
Nadja lives with her family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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spotlight magazine Oct 2019 kids photography
Miami: John Lair
John Lair is a commercial lifestyle photographer and director. He creates imagery for a wide range of clients from the resort, yacht and tourism industries to health care, fashion and pharma.
His latest projects include campaigns for Jim Beam Bourbon, Positively Fearless for Prezcobix (Johnson & Johnson/Janssen), Girl Scout Cookies (Little Brownie Bakers/Kelloggs) Little Cayman, Cobalt Coast and Cayman Brac Beach Resorts and Ocean Alexander for the 100 and new 90R yachts.
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spotlight magazine May 2019 kids photography
London: Julia Bostock
Julia Bostock is a British photographer working in the UK and abroad. With a background in graphic design and art direction, she has a confident style and is able to help realise creativity on a photo shoot by just looking and being confident. She loves people, and it shows in her work.
Julia has been specialising in kids, babies, teens, family, lifestyle and baby’s fashion photography for over 15 years. She shoots advertising, commercial and editorial for clients worldwide including luxury brands such as Fendi, Velveteen, Marie Chantal and large global brands such as Nestlé, British Airways and Affiniti.
She is also happy to work with start up companies including Hullabaloo and Tweedysmiths, and recently shot for Pirouette and L’Enfant Terrible to create a photo story set in Scotland.
From luxury children's wear fashion brands to charity work, she is always inspired and loves to travel. Julia is happy working with natural light or in a studio, and has won awards for her children’s images which include One Eyeland.
Visit the website for more information about Julia and follow her on Instagram.
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spotlight magazine May 2019 kids photography
Hamburg: Susanne Dittrich
Susanne Dittrich's passion for capturing real moments gives her work a sense of energy and honesty. As a result, she works for a variety of continental clients who endorse their brands with her visual believability.
Through her advertising work, Susanne has won multiple awards across Europe for both photographic stills and moving image campaigns, including ADC Awards in NYC and Germany, NY Festival and Cannes.
In a bid to see more of the world she took a brief break from photography when she was younger to become a magician’s assistant and tour the world with a circus.
Clients include Allianz, Audi, C&A, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Hansaplast, Hipp, Kellogg's, Heinz, Lufthansa, Manor, Meggle, Milka, Miracoli, McDonalds, Neckermann, Nivea, Porsche, Procter & Gamble/Lenor, Lego, Lufthansa, Pampers, Vodafone, Telekom, Renault, SAP, Skoda, Symrise and Zeiss.
Susanne is represented by Bureau de Victor in Paris and CUTE NYC in New York and Milan.
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spotlight magazine May 2019 kids photography
Marseille - Paris: Lisa Tichané
Lisa Tichané’s work has been entirely focused on baby and kids photography for more than 10 years. She has a true passion for children and loves documenting the energy and playfulness of childhood. Happiness and motion are the hallmarks of her imagery: she can get beaming smiles and belly laughs out of any child! Her work often includes a touch of quirk and mischief, adding just the right dose of humour to her images.
Based in France, she is fluent in English and French and has a good understanding of Spanish. She can work anywhere and thrives in multicultural environments. She is a published author and award-winning photographer. Her images can be found in commercial and advertising campaigns for international brands such as Pampers, Cow & Gate, Nokia, Seventh Generation, Sauter and Baxter.
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spotlight magazine May 2019 kids photography
Buenos Aires - New York: Lucila Blumencweig
Lucila Blumencweig was born and raised in Buenos Aires. Her work is mostly known for its emotional use of light and the direction she gives her actors - Lucila is very involved in every aspect of a production.
Specialising in lifestyle, kids and adverising photography, her photoshoots are usually surrounded by music and good vibes, which is essential for any shoot - especially if there are kids on set!
Clients include Sony, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Citi Bank, Evian, Nike, Personal Mobile, Mazola and Santander Rio as well as agencies such as Publicis Milan, DDB Berlin, David The Agency, Grey Argentina, Walton Issacson, Leo Burnett IT and Ogilvy Colombia.
She is currently finishing post-production for a global campaign for Centrum Vitamins with Leo Burnett IT and two big productions for Coca-Cola shot in Malta with Publicis Milan and in Buenos Aires with Meredeka Agency.
Lucila is available to work worldwide and is happy to join new adventures. Email her to get in touch.
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spotlight magazine May 2019 kids photography
London: David Handley
David Handley is a long established and award-winning photographer specialising in baby and children’s photography for commercial, advertising and editorial clients worldwide.
David’s experience and patience with children are amongst his greatest assets, allowing him to capture outstanding, natural pictures.
“Working with children is very unpredictable, energetic and fun, which is very rewarding and why I love working with them."
David also lectured at Central St Martins University of Arts in London.
Past merits include the title ‘Sony World Fashion Photographer’, while his talent has been highlighted with many awards, including Aesthetica Art Prize, Arte Luguna Prize, International Photographer of the Year (People), London International Creative Competition, One Eyeland Award (People), and PDN Exposure Award.