About Kit Kittle
Kit Kittle is an award winning photographer and commercial director.
Best known for his portrait and editorial photography, Kit's work is all over the map. He has accumulated thousands of photo credits in major publications all over the world and has produced and directed films on four continents. Kit’s fine art work is well known around New York.
By the age of 21, Kit had had worked as a U.S. Senate page, taught at a Navajo school, studied Sanskrit at Benares Hindu University in india, and had been around the world twice.
After a stint as a surveyor's assistant in the Alaskan arctic, Kittle returned to New York and landed his first photo job for Air India. His India photos were then published by The Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1980, and soon after in Time Magazine. Throughout the eighties, Kittle worked as a photojournalist specializing in adventure travel and his work was published in National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Geo and Travel & Leisure. His 1985 book ROUGHNECKS was described by People magazine as "profiles full of pungent, unexpected pleasure and insight."
Over time, Kit worked increasingly on corporate advertising and PR accounts. He also directed travel films and TV commercials for former still clients. Notable jobs include: the creation of a 1500-image photo library for The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism; 6 weeks in Antarctica for Life magazine; and a 23 day motion-picture shoot across 6,000 miles of China for the China National Tourism Organization. For the last ten years he has been shooting fine art, portraits and corporate images all over the world.
He is married to Laurette Angsten, a home furnishings designer. They live in Greenwich, Connecticut.
CLIENT LIST
General Atlantic
General Motors
American Express
RBS
Panasonic
American Airlines
Pfizer
W.P. Carey
The Waldorf Astoria
Princess Cruises
Sofitel Hotels Polynesia
Warner Brothers Records
The U.S. Mint.
Crystal Cruises
Greenwich Capital
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism
The Travel Channel
The U.S. Agency for International Development.
Unilever
The Barbados Tourism Authority
Manning, Selvage & Lee
Grey Advertising
ForbesLife
The Caribbean Tourism Organization
The Tourism Corporation of Bonaire
P & O
Waiohai Resort Kauai
Channel Thirteen
Tel Arc Records
Hoechst Celanese
Weber Shandwick