Kit Kittle (b. 1956) is an award-winning photographer and director.
Kittle's photography first appeared in Ways to Shiva (1980), published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since then his work has been featured in Time, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, The New York Times, and a hundred others. He has worked all over the world, including a two-month stint in Antarctica for Life Magazine.
Kittle’s first book, Roughnecks, Oil Patch, U.S.A., (1985) was described by People Magazine as “profiles full of pungent, unexpected pleasure and insight.”
In 1992, he launched Round Trip Productions and directed television commercials for two decades for clients including China Tourism, British Columbia Tourism, the Outdoor Life Network, and the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association. Kit has also directed and produced travel films for the tourist boards of Ireland, Bonaire, Venezuela, and China, and his footage has appeared in commercials for ABC, AT&T, MCI, MTV, and Visa.
Since then, he has produced the book Enlightenment (2014), reflecting on his studies during the 70’s at Benares Hindu University, and Drag Queens (2015), a documentation of the 80’s drag culture of NYC’s West Village during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Kittle’s work can be found in a wide variety of private collections around the world.
A native New Yorker, Kit had been both a teacher in Sikkim, and a student at Benares Hindu University, spending 14 months on these two trips before turning 21. He now lives and works in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife, the fashion designer Laurette Kittle.