DESI FONTAINE

Fellow of The Master Photographers Association
Fellow of The British Institute of Professional Photography
Fellow of The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers

Desi Fontaine is an established people and places photographer. She has an Honours degree in photography from the University of Westminster and Fellowships from the three major photographic bodies. (See above.) She also has six coveted Kodak European Gold Awards. As well as being a mentor for newer professionals, helping them to climb the ladder of professional qualifications, she is called upon as a judge or to head judging panels for many of the major national and international professional and amateur photographic competitions and awards. In October 2009 she was elected as the 2009/2010 President of The Master Photographers Association. Following this, she is now the new Head of Associateship and Fellowship Qualifications.

At her busy studio and gallery, the largest part of Desi’s time is spent on social photography portrait commissions for families, children, business portraiture, actors’and entertainers’ promotional shots, a small number of weddings any other photography revolving around people. Desi loves teaching others how to improve their photography in most genres and runs workshops and one to one tuition at her studio for both amateurs and professionals alike.

She has run photographic trips for Light and Land for about seven years and really enjoys helping photographers of all levels and skills to come back with great images. She has been a tutor on previous trips to Provence, Cuba and the annual Carnivale di Venezia. Desi’s private gallery is open for long weekends, three or four times a year, to showcase and sell her fine art travel work to collectors.

Desi has been passionate about her craft since a young age and could not ever imagine happily retiring from her profession!