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Texas-based talent agency The Photo Division serves up an array of distinctive commercial photographers who excel within the realms of both art and business.

Founded by Maureen Dalton-Wolfe, the agency serves as a hub for original and contemporary work, which is reflected in numerous noteworthy clients and a selection of prestigious awards. In collaboration with clients both national and international, the agency strives for quality and invention as a collective whole.

The Photo Division represents Jeff Stephens, Thom Jackson, Claudia Grassl, and Mindy Byrd.

Clients include Adidas, Avon, Fossil, JC Penney, Leo Burnett, Levi's, Lord & Taylor, Mary Kay, My Theresa, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony BMG, The Richards Group, Universal Records, Urban Outfitters // Nylon, Playboy, Vice, Vogue and Wallpaper.

Awards include AR100, PDN, Communication Arts Photography Annual and Graphis Photograph Annual.

Aspen Production Services is a production company with over 25 years of experience blending urban production work ethic with mountain production know-how, resulting in a combination that fills every possible job need. The company is known for its resourceful contacts, problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to budget. Services range from acting as local liaison to providing full production services. Aspen Production Services has offices in Aspen and San Francisco, but its territory covers the entire country. Some of its recent productions have taken the team as nearby as Utah and others as far away as Alaska.

Clients include Apple, Inc., New Balance, Toyota, Chevrolet, Chase Bank, Athleta, Timberland, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Colorado Tourism, Chrysler, Nike, Vera Wang, Brooks Brothers and many more.

Services include line producing, production management, casting, permitting, and location scouting and management.

Visit the website for more information and a complete client list.

Element X is a full service motion design studio dedicated to superior creative through superior talent. From sleek typographic design to engaging worlds with animated characters, the company passionately creates emotional connections with the art of the moving image.

Element X has the privilege of working with some of the most reknowned brands in the world, building meaningful, genuine relationships with clients by taking time to understand their creative vision, and then working efficiently to make it come to life.

''Digital Fine Art for 20 years.

Post production. Capture. Imaginative. Artistic. Phenomenal quality. Talented. Patient. Responsive. Collaborative. Resourceful. Dedicated. Dependable. Centrally located. Big clients. Small clients. Every project critical. Web to OOH in one execution. Expert Capture. Studio or Location.  Dallas. New York. LA. Miami. Chicago. Madrid. Paris. Barcelona. Cape Town. Anywhere. Anytime. Drive or Fly. Redundancy. Eighty megapixel. Fifty six megapixel. Five bodies. Four backs. Sixteen lenses. Backup gear on set. DSLR video. HMI. Light it once, Shoot it twice. Six Channels of Field Audio. Whatever it takes. Serious. Fun. Always. The Fine Art of Digital Effects.''

Weaton Digital Inc. is based in Colorado and works with a variety of in-house marketing departments and advertising agencies.

The company excels at multi-discipline projects that utilise any or all of its expertise in CGI, photography, retouching, compositing and video - integrating 3D models, video footage, VFX, and retouching to not only showcase products, but to tell their stories. Weaton Digital works extensively in the soft goods and footwear industries where it makes images shine, showcases product features, and illustrates product technology.

Weaton Digital puts a strong focus on client relationships and meeting clients’ exact needs. A selection includes Oboz Footwear, Pearl Izumi, Gaiam, GoLite and Crocs.

Heather Gill has a love for food that shines through in her images. She loves creating photographs that make the viewer want to eat, immediately! After spending more than 20 years as a chef, Heather has moved behind the camera to help bring clients' vision of food to the world. She is a classically trained chef as well as a professional food photographer, with offices in both Phoenix and Las Vegas. Heather is available worldwide.

"Food is beautiful and something that everyone can relate to. It allows me to spend time with people who are passionate about what they do. My hope and goal in any photo - be it one recorded in a documentary style, or one that is highly crafted and produced - is for it to feel natural and genuine."

Clients include Bon Appetite, Food & Wine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Southern Living, Texas Monthly, Garden & Gun, Ferrari Magazine, Whole Foods, Jack Daniel’s, Whataburger, Rizzoli, Chronicle Books and Welcome Books.

Awards include Communication Arts Photo Annual - Jack Daniel's Single Barrel; James Beard Foundation Award - "Smoke: New Firewood Cooking" by Tim Byres.

Rick Souders, owner of Souders Studios, has one of the largest food photography studios in the Rocky Mountains West. Rick is an honours graduate of the Art Center College of Design and is known as the “Mile High Food and Beverage Guy”.

The Souders Studios facilities include a commercial kitchen, two studios, five client lounges and balconies, three prop storage areas including a prop pantry, prop garage and a prop barn. The Souders Studios team has won many prestigious awards around the world.

Souders Studios has many fast food, restaurant chains, national beverage and liquor clients, health food clients, cookbooks and editorial clients. Square Pixels, its sister company, is also an awarding-winning retouching and digital compositing studio. The team offers several styles of photography and a vast array of equipment. The studio is known internationally for its creativity with food and beverage photography, while the team also specialises in flame and splash photography.

Email Rick for more information.

Director/Photographer Stewart Cohen is known for his subtle yet effective fashion in which he directs people, and for the enthusiasm and energy he brings to all assignments. His visual approach is honest, resonant, authentic and cinematic. He moves seamlessly between large-scale productions and smaller intimate shoots keeping his visual acuity sharp.

Visit his website to see more work and contact Stewart directly by calling the studio 214.421.2186 or by email.

"Engaging, cinematic, and boldly imaginative.

Close your eyes and envision the most amazing meal of your dreams. Picture the colors, the textures, the details of what lays before you. Visualize  every mouthwatering element. Open your eyes and see what you have been dreaming through the photography of Kevin Marple.

Kevin Marple's photographs have adorned the covers of magazines and filled the pages of cookbooks. Art directors for the past 16 years have been commissioning him to create provocative images for advertising campaigns that capture the soul of the global marketplace.

Give Kevin a call to discuss your next project."

Clay Hayner is a award-winning photographer based in Dallas, but spends most of his time around the country shooting fashion, lifestyle, travel, advertising, people, food, and more. 

Clay is known for the great energy he brings to all his photography and will always have an unlimited amount of rock stars on set to help. In his off time, Clay can be found hanging out and volunteering at the local animal shelters. 

Clay works frequently with major national brands including Haggar Mens Wear, JC Penneys, Khols, Target, Radio Shack, Club Corp, Boulder Brands, AT&T, Jack Daniels, Burts Bee's and Greyhounds Bus Lines, to name a few.

Jill Hunter is a Houston-based lifestyle and portrait photographer known for her ability to create and capture natural moments in life that seamlessly blend together to tell a compelling story. With her bright smile and light-hearted personality, Jill has a true gift for making people feel at ease, whether she’s working with kids or corporate executives.

Her most recent work includes a lifestyle campaign for Hewlitt Packard and portrait shoots for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Consumer Reports and American Lawyer Magazine. Jill’s editorial work has been featured in Seventeen, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Fitness, Billboard, Fortune and Der Spiegel.

Michael Hart brings over 30 years of experience working in 49 states ("Sorry, Delaware") and over 30 countries for his corporate, advertising, and design clients. He is at home as much on the production floor as he is in the board room.

His work has been featured in Communication Arts, AAF Addy Awards, Print's Regional Design Annual, London Photographic Association, APA-Los Angeles' "OFF The Clock" juried exhibition three years in a row, The Center for Fine Art Photography's "B&W 2013" Exhibit, and The Black and White Spider Awards. One of his images from the Spider Awards appears in the book 'The World's Greatest Black and White Photography, Vol. 1.'

Jeff Heger has photographed on six of the seven continents for international Fortune 500. He has been winning awards and making long-term clients for over 25 years.

Recently he was contracted by an international oil company to fill an eight story building with art prints, several will be 4 ft by 4 ft. Jeff also just finished a landscape project for a developer he has worked with for over 10 years.

Next time you need “Ugly made Cool”, call Jeff Heger.

Jennifer O’Bannon has over 25 years' experience as a fashion stylist in New York, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Her expertise in fashion and style is found on the runways, national and international magazine fashion editorial spreads, music videos, CD covers, television and film. Jennifer is also known for her classic approach to fashion combining with a contemporary edge. She has a personal fashion consulting business as well, dressing the likes of political figures, professionals and celebrities.

Clients include BMW, Nationwide Insurance, General Mills, The Royal Palm Resorts, Bluefields Entertainment and a variety of international magazines.

Kristen Packard is a professional make-up artist who specialises in commercials, film, high fashion and print. She graduated from the renowned Hollywood Make-up Designory in Los Angeles.

With special training in beauty and character application, she has provided make-up for Rolling Stones Magazine, looks for the Emmy's red carpet, wigs and make-up for the Utah Opera, unique costuming for jazz players, and teaches classes specialising in beauty make-up application.

With 10 years of experience in the field, Kristen now owns and runs her own business as a freelance make-up artist in the Salt Lake City area.