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Umit Zeytincioglu

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Umit Zeytincioglu is a Cypriot photographer who specializes in fashion and portrait photography. Her journey with photography started over ten years ago when she was studying journalism. Her early work was mainly focused on portraiture with a keen interest in fashion. It was then she studied Fashion Photography at London School of Media, Film and TV.
In 2012, she moved to London to attend post-graduate studies. Here, she found her interest in conceptual photography and produced work focusing on memory. Her photographs depicting an imagined reality and lost memories are shown in exhibitions with her fellow classmates during her studies.
After graduating from her MA in Photographic Studies at Westminster University in 2014, she has worked as a baby, children and family portrait photographer with a private company for 2.5 years. In 2017, her creative path steered into teaching and gave her many opportunities to reinvest in her photography. She has been teaching at different places since then and recently joined LSP family.
Umit continues to photograph every day with passion and her fashion portraits have been published in multiple magazines.
www.umitzeytincioglu.com

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Julia Schönstädt

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Julia Schönstädt is an award-winning, portrait photographer and video director from Berlin. She studied Photography Design at Berlin’s iconic Lette Verein and earned a Master’s in Photography at the renowned Goldsmiths, University of London. With several scholarships under her belt, she is now based in London, working between Germany and the UK. She works across advertising, music and reportage, always focusing on the human element.

Her ‘16 Bars Project’, a critical examination of the penal system in Germany, was recognised and awarded by The Guardian in 2014. Subsequently, in 2015, a book was published on the same topic by German-publisher, Asso Verlag.

Through a combination of her creative expression and commercial prowess, she helps brands and people to connect with their audiences using her signature cinematic and conceptual style.

As an extension of her personal philosophy, Julia strives to collaborate and partner with people who are committed to elevating the status of gender equality, social justice and female empowerment within the creative industry and beyond.
Clients have included Puma, Superdry, Channel4, The British Library and others.
https://www.schonstadt.com/

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Mark York

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Mark has been shooting professionally since the mid 1990s. Born in London, his portfolio includes fashion/beauty, interiors, portrait, and travel work. He began his career by assisting several leading advertising photographers in the UK, which served to be his apprenticeship. He then graduated to photographing actors and models portfolio pictures, which eventually led to regular editorial and corporate assignments in Europe and the US. The diversity in his subject matter has led to him being commissioned by a wide range of clients including Conde Nast’s ‘AD’, The London Evening Standard, L’Oreal, Nike, and The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine. Mark is also the recipient of an Association of Photographers ‘Merit’ award for his fine art print of ‘The Card Players’, which was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London,
and at the prestigious Noorderlicht Photography Festival in The Netherlands. His prints are held in private collections Worldwide. He lives in London with his partner, and their Cocker Spaniel dog, ‘Flick’.
https://www.markyorkphoto.com/

Marian Alonso

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Marian Alonso is a Spanish-Catalan photographer and lens-based visual artist who has spent many years living in the creative hub of East London and has over fifteen years of experience in the photography field. Her commercial work is mostly specialized in the areas of portraiture, reportage, fashion and beauty with some of her regular clients being well-known UK brands such as Charles Worthington Salons, Nubian Skin and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. As part of her freelance practice, she heads the photography department of busy photography and video studio in the heart of West London. Human visage is central in her personal work, conveying meaning and emotion through slights of body language and expression. She holds a master’s degree in Photography from the University of the Arts, London, and is a recipient of the ARCO (Ifema) Photography Award.
http://www.marianalonso.com

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Diogo Duarte

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Diogo Duarte is a Portuguese photographer with a keen interest in psychological portraiture and self-portraiture, with which he explores identities. Born in Lisbon, he moved to the UK in 2007 to study Psychology and Criminology and then went on to pursue a career in the Psychology field. In 2012, he studied Professional Photography at the London School of Photography and then went on to work for known brands such as Arena, Stella Artois and NFL. Diogo regularly exhibits his Fine Art work in Fine Art Galleries. In 2017, he won the East-West Art Award with his psychological portrait of a Woman. www.diogo-duarte.com

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Stefan Lacandler

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Stefan became a professional photographer after years of assisting on everything from fashion
shoots for British Vogue to movie franchises like Harry Potter. In recent years he has shot
commercially for global brands including L’Oréal, King of Shaves and Chivas working with A’list
actors like Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Oscar Isaac.

He is also the founder and principal photographer of RawSilk Photography, specialising in vibrant
wedding reportage storytelling. With over 200 weddings under his belt his wedding work has taken
him all over the place, Scotland, Italy, France, Denmark & Sweden with work published in GQ,
Men’s Health, Condé Nast Brides to mention but a few.

Stefan Lacandler grew up in rural Sweden but now live in East London with his wife Camilla and his two girls, Betty and Agnes.
www.stefanlacandler.co.uk
www.rawsilkphotography.com

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Giorgio Murru

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Italian born and bred, Giorgio is an internationally published beauty, fashion and portrait photographer. After a stellar career in documentary making, which led to the development of Bafta nominated programmes for the likes of the the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and Channel 4, he decided to swap the moving image for stills imagery, his first love. After spending years fine tuning his eye working under photographers such as Robert Wyatt, Phil Poynter, Sabine Villiard, David Oldham, Rafael Stahelin, he launched his own career in 2012. He’s now a regular contributor for a wide range of international titles from A to Zink! as well as being commissioned by a multitude of commercial clients.
His style allows him to jump between refined and irreverent beauty and fashion though retaining edge and an element of commerciality, the key ingredients to his success.
Giorgio is currently curating his first solo exhibition in Italy. The series, entitled Tidal, focuses on the relationship between water and humans. www.giorgiomurru.com

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Derek Lomas

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Derek Lomas is a Still life and Portrait Photographer.After graduating from kent University he became a freelance Assistant to Photographers in London and then went on to set up his own studio .Derek brings a wealth of studio based knowledge to the LSP and continues to work for Clients such as L’oreal, Lancome, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. Derek’s favourite things to photograph are cosmetics and Women’s shoes.
www.dereklomas.com

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Alex Poll

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Alex has a multi-faceted career in the photography industry. After completing a BA in photography at Leeds College of Art he moved to London initially to work for the AOP (the Association of Photographers). Then going on to assist a plethora of photographers in the commercial industry, work in galleries around London curating and hanging shows and also consulting with the small photography agency Pholio.
He also shoots in his spare time using traditional techniques to create conceptual documentary projects some of which have been exhibited in London and online. His imagery concentrates on object, form and the hidden aesthetic that is all around us.
Alex loves to teach and enjoys imparting knowledge about the photograph, how to take them and understand them.
http://www.alexpoll.co.uk/

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Aldo Filiberto

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Aldo is a professional photographer and film director. He graduated in 2006 from the University of Wales, College of Newport, with a First Class BA Degree in Documentary Photography. Thereafter Aldo moved back to Italy where he opened his own studio, shooting fashion and portrait assignments for various editorial and commercial clients. In 2009 following his natural impulse to travel he moved to Los Angeles where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking. While in Los Angeles Aldo kept shooting editorial assignments as a freelance and  also directed numerous independent short films before completing in 2013 his feature length directorial debut, ‘The Fortune Theory’.  In 2013 Aldo moved back to London where he currently resides and shoots. The core of Aldo’s photography is people. He specializes in editorial, commercial portraiture and fashion.www.aldofiliberto.com

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