We Are Photographers
We Are Photographers from CreativeLive brings you true stories from behind the lens and behind the lives of your favorite photographers, filmmakers and creative industry game changers. From their struggles to their wins, host Kenna Klosterman gets you the real human stories about why they do what they do. At CreativeLive we believe there's a creator (and a photographer) in all of us, and yes, that means you! If you’re ready to join us in the hustle, listen, get inspired and discover why in the end the creative journey is all worth it. We are photographers and these are our stories.
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Kiliii Yüyan is an award-winning Documentary Photographer and contributor to National Geographic Magazine and other major publications. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé and Chinese-American, much of his work explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. Kiliii is one of PDN's 30 Under 30 Photographers (2019), a National Geographic Explorer, and a member of Indigenous Pho...
Jessica Kobeissi is an Arab-American portrait and fashion photographer from Detroit, Michigan. With over 140+ million views, she is the #1 female photographer on YouTube and has created several popular viral photography series such as “4 Photographers Shoot The Same Model” and “Taking Pictures of Strangers”. Her photography has appeared in NBC News, BBC, CNN, Cosmopolitan, The Sun, Buzzfeed, DailyMail, and The Mirror.?
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Kate Woodman is a commercial and editorial photographer with a client list including Airbnb, Nike, Harman Kardon, Marie Claire and British Vogue. Kate is an educator, teaching workshops around the world focusing on color theory and storytelling. A structural engineer by training, Kate developed her love of photography in 2011 while investigating earthquake damage in New Zealand. What began as a compulsion to document the environmen...
Noémie Marguerite is a revolutionary artist with the grand ability to grasp the raw emotions and beauty of everything that she captures. She is a photographer, filmmaker and artist whose work spans editorial, studio portraits, events, and films. Her images have appeared in Wired, NYT, Fast Company, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar. She’s featured as a member of the 2021 Creative Class, presented by The Creative Collective NYC.
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Richard Terborg is a professional photographer & educator based in Amsterdam. He's a people photographer in every sense of the term. Apart from photography, he is deeply involved in the world of art in general whether it be music, fine art, or fashion. As a brand ambassador for Elinchrom and Olympus, Richard offers workshops in photography, set design, lighting, and entrepreneurship all over the world. His work has been fea...
Melina Hammer is an award-winning food photographer, book author, stylist, chef, and mastermind behind Catbird Cottage. After years working with the New York Times, Eating Well, Blue Apron, and others, she now curates and prepares seasonal menus for guests at the destination bed & breakfast she runs with her husband, located in New York’s Hudson Valley. At the Catbird, she grows an heirloom kitchen garden and forages wild foods...
Cielo de la Paz is a photographer and mobile filmmaker whose work was featured for several years in Apple’s Shot on iPhone Billboard and TV Commercial campaign. Her work has won the Gold Cannes Lions Award and honors at Mobile Photography Awards and iPhone Photography Awards. Cielo loves to teach others to make their own mobile videos and regularly teaches at Stanford, Google and CreativeLive. When not not traveling the world to te...
Alexis Hunley is a self-taught freelance photographer based in Los Angeles. Visual storytelling, a love of color and connection can be seen throughout her commercial, documentary and editorial work. Alexis’ work is featured on a recent cover of Essence magazine. Her clients include The New York Times, NY Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Men’s Health, Airbnb to name a handful. With a background in psychology, she consistently see...
Temi Thomas is a Creative Director and Photographer based in Dallas, Texas. From ideation to execution, she lives to create. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Vogue Italia, Forbes and WIRED. Of her many roles, Temi is also a Brand Strategist for MIZIZI - the official streetwear brand for the African Diaspora.
If you feel like you wear many hats in your creative life, Temi’s story will resonate with you. Find out what goes into be...
Idara Ekpoh is a Nigerian-American Portrait Photographer whose art is centered around celebrating Black women and their stories. She focuses on creating captivating visual experiences through her dreamlike & cinematic portraits. She has been able to utilize photography as a medium to not only tell her own story through self-portraiture, but to empower and bring visibility to the voices and stories of those within her community....
Rashida Zagon is a photographer, creative director & storyteller based in New York City. Specializing in portrait photography she captures natural movement bringing to life the most authentic energy of each subject. Through human connection Rashida brings intimacy and light to still shots, exposing the simple joys of everyday life by capturing those behind the scenes moments. Her intention is to make great connections with peop...
Polly Irungu is a multimedia journalist, digital editor and photographer and is the founder of Black Women Photographers (BWP), a community and online database of Black women and non-binary photographers. Polly is a Digital Content Editor at New York Public Radio (WYNC) for ‘The Takeaway’, a national NPR show with over 2 million listeners. As a photographer, Polly’s work has been published by NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, HuffPost...
Ajani Charles is a photographer, director, producer, mental health advocate, and a Canon Canada ambassador based in Toronto. He’s the founder of The Visionaries — a Toronto-based photography and cinematography non-profit and educational program, providing mentoring to youth. His photographic documentary “Project T Dot” is a visual chronicle of the city’s hip-hop culture. Ajani’s clients include H&M, Universal Music Group, Bridg...
Gavin Hoey is a freelance photographer, Olympus UK ambassador and trainer of all things photographic. Primarily focusing on photography education, Gavin was an early YouTube adopter and created a popular photography training channel before joining forces with Adorama in 2012. He’s now the most watched presenter on AdoramaTV where his videos focus on the art of lighting and portraits. Gavin is still creating at least one video tutor...
Blake Rudis is a classically trained artist who started as a painter, transitioned into printmaking and sculpture, and finally decided to double down on his love for photography. He incorporates his knowledge of design aesthetics and color theory in his photography courses and is known for his acclaimed Photoshop workflow. Throughout his teaching efforts on his site, f.64 Academy, Blake has helped thousands of photographers excel i...
Frederick Van Johnson is a passionate entrepreneur, marketer, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The TWiP Network. He also produces Skylum Software’s podcast - Behind the Seen. A professional photographer for several decades, Frederick began his career as a Combat Photojournalist in the US Air Force, where he served for 8 years, and was decorated many times for his exemplary work in the field. An alum at Apple and Adobe Systems...
Julia Kelleher is a Portrait Photographer & Nikon Ambassador who is world renowned for her moving, sentimental and emotional portraits of pregnant women and children, and the bonds children have with their parents. Her work has been featured in multiple publications including Professional Photographer, Digital Photographer, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Marathon Press, and ABC News. Specializing in fine art portraiture, she r...
Mecca Gamble McConnell is a sought-after brand photographer who creates strategic, compelling images for service-based entrepreneurs that help them tell their stories and communicate their expertise. She enjoys helping other photographers gain confidence, clarity, and build community through her 1:1 instruction, group coaching program Picture Yourself Profitable™, and hosting an annual retreat-style workshop, Porter Street. Her bol...
Daniel J. Gregory is a fine art photographer, mentor, and photo educator. He teaches fine art printing, color concepts and theory, portfolio creation, Photoshop, Lightroom, and a variety of analog photography courses. Daniel has always been interested in how photography helps us see, listen, and experience the world. His work explores the importance of developing meaningful connections to a place, person, or environment. With over ...
Growing up surrounded by the vast prairie of the Canadian north and tales of faraway places, Renée Robyn has chased the perfect backdrop around the world. Approaching photography like a treasure hunter, her compositions are uniquely cinematic, often becoming pieces of a bigger world represented beyond reality. Renée’s style is easily recognizable and distinctly her own. Expertly blending fact, fiction, and a little digital alchemy,...
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