Director Kristin Barlowe

Kristin has been connected to the advertising business in one way or another since the age of 14. A former model, Kristin traded summers on her parents’ dairy farm for trips between Milan, New York, and Tokyo. At 20, restless and eager for a new challenge she turned to agent and scouting work, finding and cultivating new faces featured in campaigns from Armani Exchange to Gianfranco Ferre’. It was on one of these shoots that the photographer noticed her talent for directing models and encouraged her to take his camera and shoot some images herself. Within the year she was shooting her first album cover and continued to work steadily as a photographer for a range of clients in music, fashion and advertising. In 2004, she directed her first music video after an executive at DreamWorks hired her to shoot a video at the same time as a photo shoot. That same year, Kristin began shooting commercial television spots for advertising agencies. Kristin’s wealth of experience in front of and behind the camera gives her the ability to approach each shoot not only with creative insight, but also strong production skills. Kristin’s unique perspective yields an organic and distinct style that stands out among her contemporaries.