Originally a Cambridge native Kirstin Sinclair is an accomplished freelance assignment photographer and contributor at Getty Images and a published author with a BA Honours degree in Fine Art Photography from Cardiff College of Art. She specialises in Fashion, Beauty, Street Style and Events and currently lives in East London with 3 black cats!
Kirstin spent the first 8 years of her career shooting documentary photography at the international catwalk shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris for British Elle magazine. This work inspired the publication of her book 'A Front Row Seat' published in November 2011 by ACC Publishing including a foreword written by supermodel Erin O'Connor. The book launched alongside an exhibition 'Catwalk to Cover' at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London the same year, Kirstin helped curate the exhibition that exhibited her work as well as the work of three other established photographers from the catwalk industry, Catwalk to Cover has since gone on to tour even traveling as far as New Zealand.
The book and exhibition caught the attention of the world renowned visual media company Getty Images, as a result Kirstin is now a well known contributor and assignment photographer for Getty and has been working for them for the last 8 years. She has continued working at fashion weeks around the world specialising in street style, arrivals and backstage and with her considerable experience in the entertainment space also regularly covers major industry events such as Royal Ascot, Red Women of the year, In-store events, parties and the red carpet for clients including Louis Vuitton, D.S Autos, Burberry, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Yohji Yamamoto and Escada.
Aside from event work Kirstin has a comprehensive portfolio that covers editorial, advertising, portrait and look book commissions. Her work has been published both online and in magazines all over the world including British Vogue, Elle UK, Grazia, Get the Gloss and Net-a-Porter and has worked directly on shoots with clients including Chanel, Diane Kordas, Fortnum and Mason, Heathrow, Tod's, Kurt Geiger, Schwarzkopf, Super Drug, Miss Selfridge, Matalan and Fuji Film.
BOOK
A Front Row Seat By Kirstin Sinclair
EXHIBITIONS
- Catwalk to Cover, Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK November 2011
- Catwalk to Cover, The Civic Center, Barnsley, UK May 2012
- A Front Row Seat, The Hoxton Hotel, London, UK September 2013
- Catwalk to Cover, Expressions Art and Entertainment Center, Upper Hutt, New Zealand November 2016
- A Front Row Seat, The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street, London, UK pop up exhibition for London fashion week September 2017
Projects credited in
- Tara Zadeh | SS19 still life look bookHandbag designer, Tara Zadeh, commissioned HM London Creative to produce and direct her SS19 still life look book. We worked with her initial ideas to come up with the creative and art direction for this shoot. Working with photographer Kirstin Sinclair and our creative director Holly Macnaghten we styled and photographed her full collection.10
Skills
- Photo Editing
- Photography
- Photo Retouching