Heidi
Heidi is the head photographer and owner of Exclusive Image LLC. She's been photographing professionally since 1996. She has studied with such talent as Len Levy, "Fuzzy" Duenkel, Don McGregor, Susan and Stewart Powers, Vicki Taufer, Sam Puc, Jeff and Julia Woods and more. She has been published in eight national magazines including Cosmopolitan, Bazaar and more. Read more here.
Heidi has enjoyed dancing since 1986 and finds great satisfaction in combining both photography and dance to create unique dance images. She has studied all forms of dance including pointe, ballet, lyrical, modern, character, hip hop, break, jazz, tap, contra, swing, latin, ballroom and figure skating. Heidi has studied with several schools across CT and has enjoyed the variety of instruction from various choreographers. Heidi received two first place ribbons for latin dancing and has toured locally to showcase swing.
Amy
Amy is currently attending Manchester Community College and studying photography, multimedia and graphic design. She has extensive experience in individual and group portraits, architectural images, and landscape photography. In 2007 she served as a darkroom assistant at MCC. She was a Photographer's Forum Magazine finalist for the 27th Annual Spring Photography Contest in 2007 and she received the Simmond's Photographic Award of Achievement in 2007 which was presented by the Visual Fine Arts Program at MCC. She has had group exhibitions at Hans Weiss New Space Gallery in Manchester, CT, Lake Placid Center For the Arts in Lake Placid, NY, and Saranac Lake Artists Guild in Saranac Lake, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at ALT.CAFE in New York, NY and Cup-a-ccinos's in Erie, PA.
Amy studied ballet from ages 5-16, and was a member of the Lake Erie Ballet company from 1984-1988. She studied ballet with Martha Grahm at Chautauqua School of Art in New York in 1985 and continued with Martha Grahm through high school. Now it's all about yoga.
Tony
Tony has been studying photography since 2004. His photography was accepted in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and his photography was featured in a local gallery.
Tony started dancing in 1991 and has enjoyed jazz, tap, hip hop and acro. He has studied with dancers such as Darrin Henson and Charles Goddertz, as well as with instructors from the Broadway Dance Center such as Chio, Frank Hatchett, Sheila Barker, Shea Sullivan and more. Tony has been competing since 2001 and was asked to go to nationals for Headliners Dance Competition.
Sarah
Sarah took up an interest in photography in High School and has had the opportunity to work with two professional studios photographing the sports and dance teams.
Sarah has been dancing since 1992 beginning with ballet and then progressing into jazz and lyrical. She now has had the opportunity to study many forms of dance including ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, modern, character, tap, tango, and swing. She has also been involved in show choir which involves Broadway style dancing and singing. She has studied dance with two local schools as well as the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts (NADAA). She participated in three of NADAA's summer national competitions. Sarah won three Silver solo metals and two silver group metals at the NADAA competitions (2005-2007), she was part of the Radio Disney dancers street team, traveled around CT with Radio Disney and danced to inspire children to the performing arts (2002-2003). She was captain and choreographer of the Manchester Community College Dance Team in 2006.