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Samanta Katz

photographer & Videographer

  • portraits
  • commercial
  • travel
  • VIDEOS
  • Contact
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I am a full time freelance photographer, videographer and content creator based in Bali, available worldwide

For bookings and enquiries contact me here

 

I work to create visual content for brands, organizations and individuals
for editorial, marketing, branding, commercial, and social media purposes.
I offer:

Half and full day commercial photography rates

Portrait/lifestyle sessions

Visual content packages for social and web

Brand travel opportunities and partnerships

Commercial videos/drone videos

Workshops and one on one education

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Past Clients

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About me

I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Canada in 2004.
With a Bachelor of Arts in Film, and a degree in professional Photography, I’ve been working professionally since 2009. 
As well as shooting, I love teaching and I’ve Lead workshops, clases and Talks in the topics of photography, creativity, and self improvement around the world.
I have traveled 52 countries, I am a Beatles lover, motorcycle rider, advanced scuba diver, and Wes Anderson fanatic.
Follow me on Instagram and get to know me a little better.

I’m not here to lecture you, I just want you to know that it isn’t as easy as it seems. That it takes courage, it takes risking everything, it takes prioritizing, it takes confronting your fears, it takes sacrifice, longing, loneliness, sadness, self doubt, and sleepless nights. I made a choice long time ago to live the life that I want, and do everything in my power to be always where I want to be, doing what I want to be doing. I grew up with certain privilege. This doesn’t escape me, in fact it’s that privilege that simultaneously causes me guilt, and pressure to do everything in my power to live to my full potential. I was born to loving and caring parents who taught with me with their own example that at any age, and against all odds you can go out into the world and look for change. They always told me they wanted to give my brother and I a better chance to do whatever it was we wanted to do with our lives. Well, this is what I want. To move with freedom, to have this different lifestyle that most don’t quite understand, to work as a creative, to travel the world. I owe it to them (and how I wish she was here to see me now) to do the best I can to live my life to it’s fullest potential. Today I find myself in Bali. I’m here to re connect with my creativity, to slow down and take care of my mind and body, to work on developing my business, to connect with likeminded people, and to learn from Balinese slow living. To see rice fields every day, and to see the smiling locals, to wait around in motorcycle traffic jams, to be close to the ocean, to adventure, to learn, and for whatever else might come. As Bowie would say, I don’t know where I’m going, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Motorcycles: 20% riding, 80% hanging (or fixing, depending what bike you ride...) 📷: @jamesbrucephoto as usual.
Back to this soon. 📷: @jamesbrucephoto
Gata mirando al sudeste
Remember when I used to post on Instagram? Yeah me neither
I have to apologize. I’ve been a little MIA. But the apology isn’t for not posting, I apologize for accidentally perpetuating an idea that my life is constant travel and adventure. The truth is I’ve been having a great time at home seeing friends and family. Staying in a lot (like, a lot), sleeping in, cleaning the house, riding the moto.... and for the most part I just haven’t been feeling like recording that and sharing it. Not because it isn’t beautiful in the most mundane way, but because sometimes putting everything through the sharing process is a little too exhausting. Maybe I have believed my own digital world where only exotic destination and beautiful photos are worth sharing, or maybe being a photographer pushes me to think of visual curation over true representation. I’m not sure, all I know is that what you see is only a percentage of my life, and most definitely not the most important one. Yes, I do travel more than most people I know, and sure, my life is absolutely out of the ordinary, but that doesn’t change what the most important aspects of it are, and they aren’t all that different from everyone else. It’s been a tough couple of weeks. My dad is selling our family home and we’ve been getting rid of a lot of memories and belongings. My brother moved away, and after this week, I don’t know when we’ll see each other again. I am packing up my apartment and committing to letting go of my home, something I’ve wanted to do for years but have been afraid of (15 years later, still an immigrant at heart)... I lost a beautiful friend to a tragic accident and I’ve witnessed people I care for surfer the consequences of a sudden loss of a loved one... I’ve been struggling with little personal battles, winning and losing along the way. we all love, and loose, and have good days and bad days.... don’t think that my life is only this because it’s not. This is some sort of attempt at ephemeral modern art, made out of a reckless representation of an ideal life. It’s a collage of beauty, It is meant to be somewhat inspirational, somewhat aspirational... but it’s curated. It’s partly made up, a representation of a truth, but not the truth. Don’t forget that.
Spend enough time on a Greek island, and you are bound to find some beautiful people (and cats). First photo of me in my happiest place ever, by @tracykomlos rest of the slideshow is my work. #pdtrgreece #pangeadreams @pangeadreams
Santorini still feels like it was all a dream. I really thought it couldn’t live up to the expectations, but there is a reason why it’s so damn popular. The place can barely be put into pictures...

© Samanta Katz, 2019