KIT KITTLE'S BIO
Kit Kittle is an award winning photographer and commercial director.

Best known for his portrait and editorial photography, Kittle's work is in many ways all over the map. He has accumulated thousands of credits in major publications and has produced and directed films on four continents.

A Manhattan native, Kittle processed his first film and made his first contact prints in fourth grade. At age 13, he became a certified scuba diver. As a teenager, Kittle worked as a page in the U.S. Senate, an intern in the U.S. House of Representatives, and taught school in Sikkim in the Eastern Himalayas and in Kayenta, Arizona, on the Navajo reservation. In his junior year, Kittle studied philosophy and Sanskrit at Benares Hindu University in India and had traveled around the world twice before graduating from Kenyon College in 1978, where he majored in religion.

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 did scores of assignments for the New York Times. His 1985 book ROUGHNECKS was described by People magazine as "profiles full of pungent, unexpected pleasure and insight."

Over time, Kittle worked increasingly on advertising and PR photography for a diverse clientele. In 1991, he produced and directed his first 35mm travel film for the Government of Bonaire, a former still photography client. Soon after, Kittle directed the second unit for a feature film shot in Ireland, and then produced and directed a travel film for the Irish Tourist Board.

Kittle founded Roundtrip Productions in 1993. In addition to travel films, Roundtrip has produced dozens of TV commercials for clients ranging from financial institutions to sports companies to government tourist boards. Roundtrip has also produced videos for law firms, record companies, dive resorts and a blimp company. Kittle has also worked as loan-out director for other commercial production companies in the U.S. and Canada.

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.

To accommodate his growing needs for a larger and more efficient shooting space for both his photography and film clients, Kittle has recently moved his studio into southern Westchester County. He has continued to work on both commercial film and photography projects on location. In 2004 these included: still shoots in Jamaica and on a trans-Atlantic crossing of the Queen Mary 2; a video shoot for a dive resort in Bonaire; and directing Gov. George Pataki for the I Love New York commercials.

Kittle is married to Laurette Angsten, a home furnishings designer. They live in Connecticut with their two teenage sons. view

EXPERIENCE
CLIENT LIST
Here is a list of some of Kit Kittle's clients:
Microsoft
General Motors
American Express
Panasonic
American Airlines
Pfizer
The Waldorf Astoria
Princess Cruises
Sofitel Hotels Polynesia
Warner Brothers Records
The U.S. Mint.
Crystal Cruises
RBS 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
Greycom
The Caribbean Tourism Organization
The Tourism Corporation of Bonaire
P & O
Waiohai Resort Kauai
Channel Thirteen
Tel Arc Records
Hoechst Celanese
Weber Shandwick view

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MAGAZINES
Kit Kittle is a photojournalist and editorial photographer with credits in the following magazines: Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, People, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, U.S. News, Town & Country, Maxim, Vogue, Golf Digest, Glamour, Men's Journal, Business Week, Ebony, Modern Maturity, Money Magazine, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Black Enterprise, Connoisseur, Western Living, Horizon, Modern Photography, American Photo, Mother Earth News, Brides Magazine, Skiing, Science Digest, Geo, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Outside, Travel & Leisure, Travel Holiday, Islands, Adventure Travel, Cruise Travel, Vista USA, Passages, Destinations, Diversion, Adventure Road, and Fine Wine Folio, etc. INTERNATIONAL: Actuel, British Vogue, Solo Golf, Editorial, Heres, Gente, Santillana, Contrasto and Geo. view

NEWSPAPERS
Kit Kittle's photo credit has appeared in the following newspapers:
New York Times (50+ features), N.Y. Daily News, N.Y. Post, N.Y. Newsday, Newark Star Ledger, L.A.Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Express, Houston Post, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Dallas Morning News, and the Palm Beach Post. INTERNATIONAL: The International Herald Tribune, The Observer, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Mirror, The Scotsman, The Australian and Die Welt. view

BOOK PUBLISHERS
His credit also appears in books published by: Random House, McGraw Hill, Dorling Kindersley, Harper Collins, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Macmillan, St. Martins Press, Time-Life, Houghton-Mifflin, Fodors, North South Books, Lucent Books, Prentice Hall, Bridgewater Books, Taylor Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Wadsworth Publishing, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Encyclopedia Brittanica and Oxford University Press. view

WEBSITES
Kit Kittle's photo credit has also appeared on a number of websites, including AOL, Expedia, nationalgeographic.com, Discovery Channel Online, Travel Channel Online, Learning Channel Online JazzRadio.Net, Bahamas.com, DoitCaribbean.com, thirteen.org, csm.com (Christian Science Monitor), and infobonaire.com. view

PERSONALITIES
Kit Kittle has photographed lots of big personalities, characters and celebrities, including: GLEN CLOSE, LEONARD BERNSTEIN, JUDY COLLINS, JULIO IGLESIAS, BILLY CRYSTAL, JANE SEYMOUR, RICKI LEE JONES, JON BON JOVI, ERTHA KITT, JOHN PIZZARELLI, CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, VANESSA WILLIAMS, AMANDA HEARST, DIANE WIEST, JIM BURROWS, DICK SNYDER, MARY HIGGINS CLARK, FIDEL CASTRO, GEORGE BUSH, GEORGE SCHULTZ, RUDY GUILIANI, RICHARD HOLBROOKE, STROM THURMOND, GEORGE PATAKI, LADY BIRD JOHNSON, WALTER CRONKITE, KATIE COURIC , BILL MOYERS, CHARLIE ROSE, DONALD TRUMP, BOONE PICKENS, SHEILA JOHNSON, BUNKER HUNT, TERRY BRADSHAW, BOBBY SHORT. view

As a travel photographer, Kit has traveled more than a million miles in 50 countries on 6 continents.

As a studio photographer, Kit works in his Port Chester studio.