Professional Bio's

João Carlos is an Advertising, Fashion and Portrait Photographer and Film Director currently based in Lisbon Portugal and New York City. For all of his outdoors, commercial, travel, and underwater work he's an Outex underwater housing ambassador.  At the age of five, João expressed his innate interest in creating when he asked his parents for a camera for Christmas. Upon receiving a box like toy camera, he kindly thanked them but gave it back, pointing out that it did not have a flash and wanted a real one.

Andy is widely recognized as a top professional photographer and retouch artist in Manchester, UK.  He started his career as a retoucher before becoming a self taught photographer. Andy specializes in fashion and portrait work, but enjoys photoshoots of all kinds and is just as happy in the studio as he is on location. Andy began using Outex to expand his on-location photoshoots for beach, fitness, fashion, and portraiture work.  It allowed his to express his artistic visions without as much concern for the damaging effects of the elements on his gear.

Olivier Morin has been a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse for the past 27 years.  Born in France in 1965, Olivier has been based in Bordeaux, Lille, where he shot mainly international sports, Eastern France Photo chief based in Strasbourg, before becoming Chief Photographer for the Nordic Countries in Stockholm and spending Six years in AFP Milan, Italy. For the past year, he is Editor in Chief Photo France in Paris. Olivier is covering a variety of daily affairs including economy, fashion and sports, his specialty, with outdoor-water features. He has been shooting 10 Olympic Games, both Summer and Winter, and soccer covers, Rugby, Athletics Worlds Championships, Alpine skiing World cups and World Championships on a regular basis. The winner of the first prize in the 2000 Fuji photo contest for an archery picture from the Sydney Olympics, 2nd prize and 3rd prize in Sportfolio in 2013 and 2015, and won Italy's sports picture of the year in 2013 for a shot of Usain Bolt under lightning bolt during the 100m final at the World Championships in Moscow, and Sports Illustrated photo of the year with this photograph, among others awards.

In this short interview clip Matt sits down with the Outex team to talk about Outex; what it is, why he likes it, and how he uses it. Matt is one of the original Outex early adopters and has been using it for years. Matt is originally from New Jersey, USA. His father was an avid traveler, fisherman and amateur photographer and one of the main factors that led Matt into photography and the ocean. Growing up at the beach Matt taught himself how to surf. A good friend of his ended up on a world surfing circuit and they teamed up to create an international surf/bodyboard video around the turn of the millennium. This project and its travels brought Matt to California, Mexico and to Hawaii in search of waves and kickstarted his journey in ocean visuals. From 2000-2004 Matt attended Wake Forest University and Lehigh University in pursuit of a BS in business. He graduated with honors and took employment as financial consultant in 2005 for a year before transitioning to remote role for the next 6 years into 2012. His flexible work situation allowed him to live anywhere in the world with access to the Internet and helped fund Matt’s passion for ocean and surf photography. Matt acted as an artist and part-time freelance photographer and chased surf in countries all over the globe during this period from shooting WQS and WCT events in Australia to working on non-profit projects in Peru.

Alexandre Gennari is a photography veteran, having started professionals in 1997 in sports, fashion, portraiture, urban, and several commercial disciplines (advertising, products, etc.), having been published in each of those areas.  He's a long time Outex underwater housing user and ambassador.His unique professional style has landed his work on the covers and pages of magazines such as Bicycling, Gooutside, Fluir, Hardcore, Alma Surf, Sexy, Trip, Transworld, Site Waves, and a number of other publications such as newspapers, journals, and books.  His work has also been featured on TV, and landed a permanent position with Rocky Mountain Editorial where he manages and produces monthly publications for the company in water sports, surf, fashion, running, and cycling.You may find his commercial work for brands like Oakley, Nike, Osklen, Adidas, Rayon, Levis, and others.

Outdoor and underwater photographer Alex Voyer is also an ambassador for Outex underwater housing system.  See Alex's work and learn about his adventures in his Outex page bio page.

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Named by “Forbes” as “The artist who revolutionizes fashion photography in Mexico” and “One of the most influential top 10 latin photographers” by “E!”,Jvdas Berra has worked for multiple designers, agencies, advertising campaigns and international journals, obtaining a rapid professional growth, which has earned him recognition as one of most promising talents in Fashion and Fine Art Photography after only five years of career. He has featured in Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, Nylon, Marie Claire, Design Scene, InStyle, Image Amplified, Vanidades, Photography Master Class, among others. His fine art work is now exhibited at the prestigious Fine Art Gallery “These Fine Walls” in New York. Also his work is represented by the highly recognized gallery “Art Angels” in Los Angeles, California, alongside the work of Andy Warhol, David Lachapelle, Michael Moebius and other world-class artists. His list of clients includes the names of famous latin american designers and big worldwide brands such as: GIZIA, Jorge Duque, 4G, Benito Santos, Rodríguez-Naranjo, Erkan Demiroglu, UNICEF, Gustavo Helguera, Mani Maalai, LOOT, Mé by Melia, Sony, Revlon and more.

Outex underwater housing ambassador Chris Higgins is an avid outdoorsman, triathlete and traveler. He uses his experience with mountain biking, caving, climbing, hiking and photography to bring the outdoors to a desktop near you. Chris got his start as a remote location photographer by traveling to some of the most breathe taking and extreme environments in the world that words alone could not describe. Over the last few years Chris has conquered some of the highest peaks on the continent and explored it’s deepest caves. Chris carries his camera with him hundreds of feet underground to reveal a part of the world most could only imagine as well as to the tops of some of the most breath taking mountain ranges in the world. Chris keeps his social media pages updated often with his latest expedition so you too can be a part of the adventure. 

Underwater fashion and portrait photography session by professional photographer and instructor Carla Durante. This short video shows the before & after underwater photography preparation with models, Outex underwater camera cases, waterproof makeup, and underwater wardrobe.

Award winning Chris Burkard is a self-taught photographer and artist, based in Central Coast California, whose work is layered by surf, outdoor, lifestyle and travel subjects. At the age of 31, Burkard has established himself as a known name in the surf and outdoor industries, accomplished a deep body of work, held staff and senior photographer positions and has been recognized continually for his distinct creative compositions. Chris was one of the original Outex underwater housing customers and is constantly pushing the envelope of what's possible in image capture.

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