
Kit Kittle is a film director and still photographer with a studio in the
heart of New York City's photo district.
Kittle has most recently directed television commercials for
British Columbia Tourism, The Outdoor Life Network and The Recreational
Vehicle Industry Association.
Kittle founded Roundtrip Productions in 1993. In addition to commercials,
Roundtrip has produced travel films for such clients as American Express,
the China Tourism Board, the Irish Tourist Board, and the Tourism
Corporation of Bonaire.
Roundtrip's stock footage has been seen in television advertising campaigns
in fifteen countries for clients including AT&T, MCI, Visa, US
Air and MTV.
Kittle's photography first appeared in Time Magazine in 1981. Since then,
it has appeared in more than 100 publications internationally, including
fifty feature layouts for the New York Times travel section. He has worked
all over the world, including a two month stint in Antarctica for Life
magazine. Credits include National Geographic Traveler, Travel & Leisure,
Outside, Smithsonian and American Photo. His only book, Roughnecks,
published in 1986, was described by People Magazine as "occupational
profiles full of pungent, unexpected pleasure and insight."
Kittle's photography has also contributed to the advertising and marketing
campaigns of a diverse clientele in the travel industry. These include the
Waldorf Astoria, Sofitel Hotels Polynesia, Crystal Cruises, Princess
Cruises, the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and American Airlines. In 1997,
Kittle's photography earned a CLIO nomination in the travel category for
the national print campaign of the RVIA, shot on locations in Oregon, Utah
and Colorado. Other clients have included the U.S. Agency for
International Development, the U.S. Mint, the U.N and General Motors.
A Manhattan native, Kittle had been around the world twice by the time he
was 22 years old, and had worked as a U.S. Senate page, a teacher in the
Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, a teaching assistant in Arizona's Navajo
reservation, and a surveyor's assistant in the Alaskan arctic.
He studied
philosophy at Benares Hindu University in India and in 1978 graduated from
Kenyon College where he majored in religion.
Kittle is married to Laurette Angsten, a home furnishings designer. They
live in Connecticut with their two sons, ages 7 and 10.