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| mylife Photographers |
| The mylife professional
photographers are not only some of the best in the commercial
and stock photo industry, but they're also just great people.
Most have been in the stock business for years; and they have
been chosen for their quality photography, as well as their
ability to create a photo story. mylife is proud to represent 18
photographers from 7 different countries. |
 Pete
Saloutos is a commercial
photographer based in Bainbridge Island, Washington. His diverse
imagery includes dynamic sports, health care, corporate,
landscape and underwater photography. Currently featured as one
of the Nikon's “Legends Behind the Lens,” his work has been
published countless times by most Fortune 500 companies. When he
is not taking photographs, Pete is active in charitable
fundraising efforts at the national and community level.
 Don
Normark has had over 10,000 of
his photographs published over the past 40 years in Sunset and
other magazines, as well as numerous books. Normark's
award-winning photos have been shown at the Brooklyn Museum,
Friends of the Photography Gallery, the Focus Gallery as well as
the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, MIT, and the
Smithsonian. In the early 1950's Don used the last of his GI
Bill to study the history of art in Rome. He quit his job at
Look Magazine and sailed from New York to Naples. The camera he
used was a new model from a young company called Nikon.
 Wendy
Amdahl is a freelance stock
photographer and portrait artist born, raised and still living
in the sunny, sultry state of Florida. She likes to take her
photographic cues from her tropical state, and the many
whimsical tourists who inhabit it. She strives to keep her
photography fun, eclectic and a tad bit quirky! She
specializes in Digital Lifestyle Stock Photography with a focus
on People and Color. She also loves shooting all things Retro,
Vintage, Tropical and Kitschy. She's won various awards for her
work, but she's quick to note that her greatest accomplishment
is being blessed with a wonderful family that indulges her
eccentricities and inspires her each and every day to pick up
her camera and shoot! Her favorite inspirational thought..."Do
what you love, love what you do...and the world will come to
you!"
 Oscar
Garces is
a journalist and photographer, based in Colombia. Oscar works in
the Andinos countries; Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. He
established the Camara Lucida agency in 1995 to cover
photojournalism. Later he built a stock agency covering general
photo subjects. Oscar and his team are well-experienced in both
the commercial and stock photography worlds. And their
photography of Latin people will add further depth to the
diversity of lifestyles in the mylife collection.
 Ken
Anderson
went to Brooks Institute of Photography, and has been doing
advertising photography for over 15 years. He has received
numerous awards, including multiple winnings in The One Show,
Communication Arts, Kelley Awards and the British Art Directors
Awards. Ken's recent clients include, Adidas, Brooks Shoes,
Merrell Shoes, Corona Beer, Chevrolet, CNN, Columbia Sportswear,
Giro Helmets, GT Bikes, Malibu Rum, Old Spice Deodorant, Olin
Skis, Scott Tissue, V8 Splash, Febreze, Yoplait, USPS,
Progressive Insurance and Microsoft. That doesn't leave him a
lot of time for mylife, but, in his own words, he's "one of the
greatest guys you could ever hope to meet".
 Michael
Freeman lives in London. He has been a principal photographer
for the Smithsonian Magazine for many years. Freeman's work has
been widely published internationally in all major magazines,
including GEO, the Sunday Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Life,
International Wildlife, Stern, Paris-Match, the Telegraph
Magazine, the Observer, the Independent, Design Magazine, GQ
Magazine, National Geographic, Omni, Condé Nast Traveler,
Illustrated London News, Merian, Newsweek and Asahi Shimbum.
Michael is also the author of 35 books on photography and
numerous books on travel and architecture subjects. He knows
books and his publications have been enthusiastically received
worldwide.
Paula Showen is
a native-born Floridian, currently living in the Tampa Bay area.
Her education and career in computer technology has been an
asset for her digital work. Paula is now a portrait artist,
specializing in maternity, infant and children's photography.
Her passion is capturing the earliest stages of bonding between
mother and child. Paula's work also includes shooting for
medical and homeopathic magazines, city promotional images,
wildlife magazines and gallery exhibits. She has been the
recipient of several photographic awards enjoys working with
mylife.
 Dinodia,
the largest photo library in India, represents over 400
photographers from all over the world. The agency now boasts
over one million images in its files. Dinodia was founded by
Jagdish Agarwal in the late 1980’s. Jagdish named the library
after the town of Dinod, the village of his birth. The idea
behind Dinodia’s name (and one that goes very well with the
mylife concept) is to acknowledge one’s roots.
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 Nick
Kirk lives on the beautiful
western coast of Scotland. He is an ex-professional yachtsman
and keen sports enthusiast. Nick initially used his photography
skills to help in the development of yacht sail design. He was
then encouraged to turn his photography "professional". Four
years ago he set up his own company and became one of the
industry leaders in yachting and marine photography. Today
Nick’s images capture action, activity and movement, now
focusing on lifestyle, commerce and industrial themes. Nick is
acquiring a solid reputation for his composition of people,
colour and conceptual environments.
 Angela
Cameron was born in Toronto,
and lived and worked as a nurse in Winnipeg for many years. She
has recently moved to Vancouver with her daughter. Primarily
self taught in Photography, Angela has received numerous awards
over the last 15 years; she has published in Photo Life,
Photographic, and Canadian Geographic magazines, to name a few.
Angela's portraits, creative still life, infra-red landscapes,
architecture and Polaroid techniques are often used to create
images with impact and an artistic feeling. Angela claims she is
‘’never at a loss for ideas”, and is very happy to be part of
the mylife team.
 Kevin
Wildermuth, a Seattle photographer and mixed media artist, has
been engaged in photographic pursuits for 25 years. He went to
Evergreen State College and has shown at many galleries in
Seattle and Portland, including Traver, Hundred Waters,
Fuller-Ellwood, Fuel, and most recently Esther Claypool, Blue
Sky and Artemis Gallery. His work is included in the City of
Seattle's Portable Works Collection and the collections of
Swedish Hospital, Immunex Corporation, Children's Hospital, and
ArtSource Inc, as well as many private collections. The constant
emphasis of Kevin's work has been cultural anthropology, or in
plain English, the way things really look.
 Tomas
del Amo has
been a professional commercial photographer since 1979. With
studio and location facilities in Honolulu, Hawaii Boulder,
Colorado and Auckland, New Zealand he has unsurpassed
capabilities for corporate, industrial, product and portrait
photography. His commitment to excellence is as evident in his
pictures as in his clients' endorsements. His passion for his
work and his appreciation for what he is photographing put him
at the pinnacle of his profession. The fine art prints from the
Tomás del Amo Collection have been displayed in galleries and
are owned by art collectors worldwide.
 Mary
Oei grew up in Holland and was
trained as a teacher. She moved to Florida seven years ago with
her husband and four children. There she created a perfect
combination of the two things she loves most, children and
photography. Mary strives to capture the natural expressions of
people. And her experience as a teacher has proven very helpful.
 Patrick
Byrd graduated from the
University of Texas with a degree in Psychology in 1994. After a
few years on the road, he accidentally stumbled into a job as an
investigator for an industrial law firm. One day, while hiding
in the bushes on yet another long surveillance, he took some
photos -not of the case at hand, but simply to entertain
himself. These photos eventually proved to be marketable. That’s
when he got serious. After a couple of years of diligent study
he launched an award-winning career as a freelance photographer.
mylife likes Patrick's background. He's a good observer of
people, and that makes him a better lifestyle photographer.
 Steve
Wanke has been a professional
photographer for some 25 years; 5 of which have been exclusively
digital. Living near Portland, Oregon, Steve shoots subjects
from people to architecture. However, he is best known for his
lifestyle photography, and we are fortunate that he is part of
mylife.
 Based
in Mexico City, Guylaine Couttolenc has been an artistic and
commercial photographer for almost 20 years. She studied
photography in Mexico and at the Speos School of Photography in
Paris. She also founded "Banco Mexicano de Imágenes", the
leading image bank in Mexico. At the moment, Guylaine is the
photographic editor for Quien Magazine, a publication of Time
Expansion Inc.
 Ignacio
Vidau has been a professional
photographer since 1980. He had a studio in Mexico City, with
several photographers working for him until 1999. Today he is
dedicated to digital photography and spends most of his time
creating fine art photo prints on canvas . Ignacio is
enthusiastic about the mylife concept; and he is eager to show
the modern, as well as the traditional, lifestyles of people in
his country.
 Hans
Wiesenhofer is truly one of the finest photographers of peoples
and places in all of Europe. Living in Vienna and Pollau,
Austria, Hans has a rich history of photography that includes
work for Time-Life, Geo, Stern, Minolta and FMR. Hans has also
published numerous books on subjects related to travel and
people in Austria, Greece, Germany, Canada, the Middle East and
the United States. |
| mylife Directors |
 Maria
del Carmen Pavon and Fabian Flores are directors of mylife
photos LLC.
 In
addition, they also own a traditional rights-managed and
royalty-free stock photo agency, Photo Stock. Based in Mexico
City, Photo Stock was a primary force toward revolutionizing the
stock photography industry in Latin America. Carmen has been in
the stock industry for 13 years. Before setting up Photo Stock,
she studied Communications and was a graduate of the Hallmark
Institute of Photography in Turner Falls, Massachusetts. Fabian
had been a part of his family's businesses for many years before
he joined Photo Stock. Fabian is primarily responsible for
business development and with international marketing and
distribution for Photo Stock as well as mylife photos.
 After
graduation from Seattle's Cornish School of Fine Arts in 1979,
Stephanie Webb started a long career at Seattle's West Stock.
She worked with photographers as well as designers. Early on
Stephanie concentrated on sales and computerizing the company's
photo database, which helped the agency evolve into a thriving
national business. Working with Mark and his partner was a great
opportunity. Their vision to create an international agency with
digital image delivery systems meant that we were always on the
lookout for the next big photographic and computer trends. It
was exciting to be a pioneer in WWW world! Now Stephanie divides
her time between mylife photos and managing her family timber
property in North Idaho. Living in Seattle, she is happily
preoccupied with two black cats and her artist husband, Kevin
Wildermuth.
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