Background

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.