Meet KELLY & KALINA Award Winning and Published Photography Duo

We are husband and wife team of Professional Photographers based in South West Florida- Fort Myers area. We specialize in Fine Art Portrait Photography and luxury beautifully curated heirloom art works for your walls.

Kelly Schneider

PPA Photographic Craftsmen, Certified Professional Photographer

Kelly was born and raised in Coronado, California, and eventually moved to Oregon, where he lived until he joined the US Navy in 1980. During his 29-year Navy career, Kelly traveled to 137 countries. While doing so, he developed a passion for “capturing” the world around him through photography.

In 2010, Kelly expanded into professional photography, photographing weddings and growing and refining his skills in creating “salient” portraits.

While starting his family photography business, Kelly was also busy working for Department of Defense as manpower and training lead for various programs, including the Nuclear Carrier CVN78 FORD Class. Over time, he became passionate about teaching others and earned a Master’s Training Specialist as well as a master’s degree in Human System Integration from the Navy Post Graduate School in Monterey, California.

He strongly believes in constant learning and attends two to three workshops/events each year.

He is currently writing his first book on photography, “The Salient Portrait—The Science Behind It and How to Achieve It.” The information he shares in the book is the core of all the workshops and training events he offers.

Kelly was named Portrait Photographer of the Year in 2017 by Maryland Professional Photographers Association and again in 2018 in the state of Maryland.

He is also a recipient of the 2018 FujiFilm Masterpiece Award and FujiFim Wedding Photographer of the Year.

First Place with WPPI First Half 2019 - Boudoir Category.

Kalina Schneider

Kalina Schneider is an International Award-winning Master Photographer and digital artist based in Florida, who specializes in Fine Art Portraiture and Fashion Photography. Her work is full of color, magic with dreamlike aesthetics. She uses Photography as her way to tell stories and raise questions that her viewers can relate to and contemplate.

She has earned her Master’s of Photography, Master Craftsmen from the PPA ( Professional Photographers of America).

She is also 2 times Grand Imaging Award finalist for one of the top 10 portraits in PPA (for 2019 and 2022).

Recently, Kalina has been exploring a Journey of Self-discovery - an internal pilgrimage that we aren’t often fully aware of. She treats her work as photographic symbolic metaphors that just like music have power to reach and connect people from different cultures and various walks of life.

Kalina studied art history and cultural studies (earning a Master’s Degree) and has lived in Poland, England, Turkey and the Kingdom of Bahrain before moving to the US. She has travelled extensively throughout her life and her travels and discovering new cultures has been a source of constant inspiration in her works.

Her concepts, photographs and now her backgrounds and digital art are highly influenced by global art and people she meets. You can also detect her love and fascination of theatrical costumes, vintage fashion and ethnic fabrics in her creations.

Together with her husband Kelly Schneider -also an accomplished Master Photographer -she teaches all facets of fine art photography as well as costume design for creative photography concepts.

Kalina and Kelly design and manage immersive hands-on photography workshops in the USA and Ireland, Italy, and Bali- Indonesia!

Kalina is a member of Professional Photographers of America and the Florida Professional Photographers Association. She was awarded Professional Photographer of the Year in 2018 by Maryland Professional Photographers Association and Professional Artist Photographer of the year in 2018 in the state of Maryland.

Other awards:

Honors of Excellence – WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photography International): Silver Award for Portrait Contemporary Composite.

Sliver Award for Individual 2019 First Half.

Award of Excellence with MPI (Master Photographers International) 2019 for Portrait Story (Non child).

Honorable Mention with IPA Lucie Awards

We can’t wait to hear your story!!!

Photography educators and speakers

Over the past few years, Kelly and Kalina have been hosting workshops both in the US and in Europe.KS Fine Arts (ksfinearts.com) focuses on Boudoir, Fine Art Portraiture, Workshops and Speaking Engagements nationwide.

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202-431-8943 or 202-615-2038

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