Sansivera Photography

Amazing Photogs I’m lucky enough to call friends in real life.

Tim Matsui - www.timmatsui.com  As a storyteller, my sense of adventure, curiosity, and desire for challenge fuel a passion for social justice and human security.

The human condition can be difficult to witness; it is too easy to be a bystander, so I challenge the viewer while providing hope, understanding, and a means to act. During my freelance journalism career, I founded and ran a non-profit creating dialog about sexual violence. My work was used by the US military and in sexual assault centers nationally; I learned about grants, partnerships, and most importantly, finding a way to engage communities.

This experience informs me today as I pursue stories of human trafficking, alternative energy, and the environment. I found resilience; in even the hardest of stories people can find their voice and regain a future. They are no longer victims. Our story may be less severe, but I help people see themselves in the struggle, to connect. I believe we learn, relate, and are moved to act.

When you work with me you receive the same passion I apply to my personal work, for I am a multimedia storyteller at heart. While working with me will benefit your organization or company, it also gives voice to the voiceless. Many of my social justice stories are un-commissioned, and your patronage will support the production of stories of effort and conscience, of every day heroes. I believe we are global citizens; that our sphere of influence extends beyond the immediate; I wish to use my skill to convey our responsibility to each other. I like to call it media for social change. 

Chad Coleman - www.chadcoleman.com  Versatile. Reliable. Authentic. Fun. These words describe photographer Chad Coleman and the passion for his work. Specializing in action, location and lifestyle images, Chad is based in Seattle, and is at home working anywhere – from the high mountains to the corporate boardroom to the coffee shop down the street. With a journalism degree from the UW, Chad is a self-taught photographer and an experience photojournalist for several Pacific Northwest newspapers. Along the way he has been lucky to garner awards and had the pleasure to work with distinguished commercial and editorial clients.

William Thompson - www.williamthompson.com  Shooting on assignment for National Geographic for over 10 years, Thompson looked for the unblinking truth of his subjects’ lives - that gleam of light in the heart of darkness.  And he brought it back alive.  For example, on one two year assignment he followed the elephants of the world on their tragic path toward extinction—almost becoming extinct himself from cerebral malaria.  Thompson has photographed Mt. Everest (the first and only complete aerial imagery); he walked for months across Bhutan exploring its people and geography; he defined the life of Kathmandu; he has lived on the small islands of Alaska documenting this powerful unrelenting wilderness.  He has visually explored diverse environments from the jungles of Costa Rica to vast highlands of Mongolia to the interior of the Congo.  Thompson invested many months in China trying to unearth visual meaning within one fifth of the world’s population.  It is clear that Thompson seems to have more than just ‘making images’ in mind when he points out that travel is inconsequential in and of itself.  Finding meaning in that travel is the key - that is having a purpose.  It is his point of view that his work must enlighten, create ideas, define passions, allow discovery and hopefully edify.

Jake Norton - www.mountainworldphoto.com   I have always focused on teaching, sharing, communicating, and trying to understand. Our world - diverse, multi-faceted, at times confusing and challenging - demands that we do these things in order to understand it and work within it. My life focuses on these things through my careers as a professional photographer, climber, guide, and speaker…and father of two.  Since 1999, I’ve been on the other side of the lens, creating images in my backyard and around the world, and telling stories like those told to me many years ago. I’ve had unique opportunities to shoot for clients in the jungles of Borneo and to the summit of Everest, from the Kalahari Desert to Shackleton’s footsteps across South Georgia.  In every case, my focus has been the same: To create unique, compelling images that capture essential moments and convey the story of adventure, of nature, of humanity. Every image, I hope, has an element of those four keys: teach, share, communicate, understand.

Chase Jarvis - www.chasejarvis.com  The Seattle Times, the city’s largest media outlet with more than 55 million page views each month, explores Chase Jarvis’s artistic endeavors and how he is encouraging us all to put our best creative foot forward. Tyrone Beason, Pacific Northwest Magazine staff writer, finds that while Jarvis has a well-respected commercial photography resume, his real passion are his personal projects and inspiring others to share creativity with their own communities. “Seattle photographer Chase Jarvis has built his reputation around an uncanny ability to capture the iconic.” And that is especially apparent in his latest personal project: Seattle 100: Portrait of a City. “Having traveled the world as a professional photographer, Chase Jarvis of Seattle has made portraits of 100 people he thinks show us the way to be creative… Looking at the faces Jarvis has captured, it’s as if you’ve been walking down the same street your whole life without ever stopping to acknowledge the people passing you, then suddenly realizing every one of them has something fascinating to talk about.”

Gerrit Vyn - www.gerritvynphoto.com  Gerrit is a wildlife, nature and conservation photographer dedicated to producing compelling images that illustrate natural history, conservation and biological stories. He brings a lifetime of natural history study, wilderness exploration, and an artist’s eye to each project he undertakes.

Other Photographers and Blogs you should check out.

Camile O’Briant – Based in LA

Gnouphonephotography by Kiko – based in Paris

Boyke – Based in Europe