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Mark Antman is not only a visionary manager and an entrepreneur, but he is also known as prolific photographer. He was also the co-owner of a very popular art studio named ‘The Image Works’. He worked on the marketing project of the studio and also helped with all it promotion. Mark decided to join a very popular social media site and a business directory of their times known as Jigsaw. He did this, so as to expand his site on an international level and he could reach out to more potential clients, who need his photographic service.

The Image Works of Mark possessed a wide variety of collection, which was one of its kind images from different spectacular sources and from different places. He uploaded all these images on its website. The website has lots of astonishing variety of various images, which were classified according to the topic. They had great collection of contemporary as well as historical imagery. The growth of their inventory was increasing rapidly with the addition of exciting and new collection everyday.

From a very prestigious University at New York, Mark Antman completed and received his degree in chemistry and biology. He thought of enrolling himself in medical course, but before he even graduated from the college, he had his real calling. He had a great knack of photography and got a chance to work as a part time photojournalist. After that he never had to look back. It was in the year 1983, when he and one of his photographer friends named Alan Carey started a joint venture and embarked upon to build Image Works soon after they met each other for the first time while covering a local contest.

Carey was the main photographer for the daily regional newspaper and Antman just returned to the United States after he had worked for a decade in France as a journalist. Both of them had a similar thinking and instantaneously decided to open a studio, which they inevitably did in a very short period of time. Mark Antman became the president and the only owner of this company in the year 2001, when Alan Carey retired. He became the sole caretaker of ‘The Image Works’ studio and holds the name as high as before. Even today, they have a great collection of unique set of photography and imageries.

Nowadays, product promotion through advertising is catching up. Hence, social media like magazines, documentary films, newspapers and online advertisers are in search of attractive photographs in order to endorse their products efficiently. Mark and his team help their clients to choose the best picture for promotions. The team is knowledgeable and expert in photography.

Photographers, either professional or still an amateur one, are everywhere in the world. Cameras used nowadays are now in digital format which includes even the single-lens reflex ones. Majority of the photographers today are more focused on a single aspect of photography since all types offer different technicalities that has be studied carefully. It is a rarity to find a photographer who was involved with a number of types of photography in his career.

One of those rare ones is Andrew Holman. The South Dakota State University graduate has been involved with a number of types of photography in his almost 20-year professional career. Holman started in 1992 as freelance photographer focusing in fine art photography. In 1994, he finished his formal education in one type of photography from the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. Holman majored in commercial photography.

Focusing in fine art portraiture, Andrew Holman was doing a number of traveling art exhibits in the Denver area. This was the time when his popularity as a photographer is slowly rising. One of his most commended fine art exhibit was the “Portraits of a Community” series. This exhibit focused on the different characters located in the Denver area.

Doing away with fine art portraiture, Andrew Holman’s next job involved photojournalism, one type of photography that requires shooting only facts. He worked for the Vail Trail Newspaper, a paper based in Vail, Colorado, for five years. Holman covered different sporting events and has captured a number of editorial feature images while he was with the newspapers. One of his biggest coverage was in 1999 when the Alpine Ski World Championships was held in Vail. His images were even carried by the likes of The Village Voice, People Magazine, Ski Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine, and the Gamma-Liazon Photo Agency of New York. Apart from those publications, Holman also had commercial clients including Oxygen Snowboards, Atomic Ski Company, Milka Chocolate, Vail Associates and Boardriders Club of Vail.

Putting the photography degree that he finished into use, Holman worked for XRX Publishing Inc. both as a photographer and book production manager. His location shoots there were in New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles.

After his stint in commercial photography, Holman focused in wedding photography and his popularity has completely risen. Holman started in this kind of business in 2002, the same time he moved in Sedona, Arizona. Since 2002, Holman has had more than 400 wedding coverage and the number is set to grow even further since his works are getting a lot of praises.

With all the experience that Holman had in his career, it is just rightful to say that he is a master in photography.