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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 17 photographers from 7 different countries. Please click on a photographer's image to see their mylife CDs.

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.

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.

guylaine couttolenc is 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.

 

Company Directors

mylife owner Mark Karras has a rich history in editorial and stock photography.

He started out in London in the late 70's as Picture Editor for Time-Life. Ten years later, Mark returned to the US with thoughts of developing a means to search and distribute stock photographs on a computer, rather than a lightbox.

After purchasing Seattle’s West Stock in 1988, Mark and his partner approached a company, 21st Century Media (later to become PhotoDisc and Getty), with their ideas. In 1990, PhotoDisc partnered with West Stock to distribute a series of "royalty-free" CDs. The result was the first of over thirty vastly successful discs that would forever change the stock photography world!

Mark didn’t stop at CDs. The future for digital photography was going to be the internet. Eighteen months later his company became the first stock agency in the world with the ability to sell and automatically download images via the worldwide web.


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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Email:  info@mylifephotos.com