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Speakers 2021
Chris Knight was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and hardened by the sweaty, nearly chewable, humidity of Florida. He combines his unconditional love of art history with his conditional love of technology, topping it off with a flare for the cinematic and an uncompromising eye for detail. His work has appeared in or on Vogue, People, MSNBC, ABC, Ocean Drive, GQ and others.
Over the past 27 years Steve has executed some of the most award-winning, photo-based print and online advertising in Canada, appearing at: the Marketing Awards, the Extras, the Lotus Awards, Cannes, One Show, D&AD, the Clios, in Graphis, Applied Arts, Communication Arts and Lürzer’s Archive, among others.
Clare Louise, Creative Leadership Coach and a fine art photographer in her own right, is passionate about authentic creativity. Retraining as a coach; today, Clare Louise is a respected Creative Leadership Coach – empowering creatives to do meaningful work by creating deeper connections to our selves and the world around us through authentic creativity.
Melanie East is a multi award winning newborn photographer. Her fierce courage, strong business ethics and belief in newborn safety saw her leave a high flying career as a lawyer and craft a successful business doing what she loves – Creating Art in Newborn Photography.
Storey Wilkins, a passionate wedding and family portrait photographer, has created a highly successful home-based business in Toronto. She believes in the beauty and joy of LOVE and is constantly evolving her creative practices to bring her clients the very best of fine art wedding photography and playful family portraits.
Cassandra is a world renowned, multi award-winning baby and child photographer based in Grande Prairie, Alberta. She is best known for her outdoor baby and child portraits and draws much of her outdoor inspiration from her childhood spent on a remote farm in northern Alberta.
Victoria West has been a full time portrait photographer for eleven years. Victoria was honoured to be chosen as PPOC’s 2019 Portrait Photographer of the Year, and also brought home a Bronze Medal for Team Canada at the 2019 World Photographic Cup.
Joel Robison is a fine art photographer. His work has been used world wide by clients such as Coca-Cola, FIFA, Yahoo, Adobe, Oprah Magazine, Mariott ArcAngel, Trevillion, PhotoNews Canada, and many more.
Charlie has over 20 years experience behind the lens and is the founder of The Fresh Academy. Charlie is a renowned fashion, portrait and function photographer with an FSWPP Honors. Charlie’s work has been published in such publications as The Times, Daily Mail, Glamour, Elle and Cosmopolitan. Charlie is also an international speaker in the photography industry.
Active in internet development since 1998, Trevor brings a wealth of experience over many disciplines with a primary focus on Interaction Design & User Experience development.
She has a background in fine art and anthropology. This combined with her love for the natural world, brings a unique perspective to her photography.
Billie is a Commercial, Beauty, Fine Art and Fashion photographer and Creative Director located out of Toronto, ON. Her style is unique, classic, simplistic, feminine and impactful.