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About the Artist
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Kit Kittle is an award winning photographer and film director. A native New Yorker, Kit started printing black and white photographs in fourth grade. When he was sixteen, he traveled with his sister to teach school in Gangtok, Sikkim, in the eastern Himalayas. An interest in Buddhism lead him to study Sanskrit and philosophy at Benares Hindu University, in Varanasi, India, for his junior year in college. By the time he was 21, he had been around the world twice. Kit's photographs of Varanasi were used as cover art and inside a book called Ways to Shiva, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1980. Kit's photojournalistic book about the lives of oilfield workers, titled Roughnecks, was published in 1985. People magazine described this book as “full of pungent, unexpected pleasure and insight.” Kit has been interviewed on The Today Show along with many other radio and TV shows. Kit has just finished a new fine art book of photographs called Enlightenment which will be available this spring. Kit’s magazine work first appeared in Time Magazine in 1981. He photographed India for Air India, Antarctica for Life, Alaska for Travel & Leisure and Tahiti for Sofitel. He photographed more than fifty stories for the New York Times. He has accumulated about a thousand credits in major magazines on six continents. Kit's photography has contributed to the marketing, advertising and public relations campaigns of a diverse clientele. These include American Express, Pricewaterhouse, General Atlantic, Princess Cruises, Sofitel Hotels Polynesia, Warner Brothers Records and W.P. Carey. Kit has also directed dozens of television commercials for clients including the Outdoor Life Network, the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association and British Columbia Tourism. 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. Kit brings expertise and calmness cultivated from 30 years of shooting all over the world. Kit is married to Laurette Angsten, a home furnishings designer, and they have two sons. They live in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kit has a photography studio in New York.