
Meet The Ricoh Imaging Ambassadors
Ricoh Imaging products in the hands of some of the world’s best photographers
Browse through our Ambassadors profile below to learn more about each photographer. View some of their favorite pictures taken around the world and explore their social media presence as well. Please note any messages, beliefs, or viewpoints expressed in the Ambassador’s photographs, websites, or visual images do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs or viewpoints of Ricoh Imaging.
William Hereford
Location
Brooklyn, NY
William Hereford is an award winning travel and fashion photographer. His editorial & commercial campaigns have taken him across the globe creating fashion and travel content for the industry’s leading brands. His clients include Woolrich, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vineyard Vines, Lands End, Travel & Leisure, Le Creuset, Bonobos, Saveur, & Gant Rugger amongst others. William is a recipient of the American Photography Awards, the APA, & the IACP Awards. His studio is based in Brooklyn, New York.
“I first fell in love with Ricoh when the GXR debuted because of a long term relationship with Leica grade images. Because a huge part of my client base is in the travel industry I could encounter a moment worthy of my portfolio at any time. I have worked with GRI and GRII and in particular love theses cameras for their dynamic range and color profiles. I’m also a fan of a fixed focal length for compact cameras because I believe it simplifies the shooting process. I find the GRII in particular renders skin tones famously and the files can stand up to heavy color correction without falling the pieces. The on camera flash creates a lot of versatility as well and lastly, I think the camera is beautiful.”
Type of Photography
Travel, Lifestyle, Outdoors, Portrait
Favorite Equipment:
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Instagram: @williamhereford
Kerrick James
Location
Arizona, USA
Kerrick James has worked as a full-time travel journalist since 1990, and his story travels have taken him to six continents and nearly 80 countries.. His images have been featured on more than 200 book and magazine covers, and he’s written numerous feature stories for travel publications. He has also shot a variety of travel-themed books on subjects like Route 66, and other travel destinations worldwide.
With the American West and Pacific Rim as his home territory, he has taught more than 70 photo workshops over 16 years, from Panama to Alaska, Italy to New Zealand, and Hawaii to Zambia. Kerrick shoots all aspects of destination travel, including cruising, architecture, sports and wildlife, but Kerrick is best known for his dynamic landscapes and images of ecotourism.
His favorite assignments have taken him on active adventures like kayaking, hiking, climbing and exploring the wild places of the planet. He has rafted the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon 17 times, and recently wrote and shot cover features as disparate as exploring Venice and the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico on assignment. His philosophy about travel photography is simple: “Photography is our shared visual language, and freely connects all cultures. I love to teach and am always thrilled to share my vision and experiences with everyone who loves making meaningful photographs.”
Kerrick’s thirst for adventure has driven him to become the photographer he is today.
“I bought my first PENTAX SLR in high school, used it through college as I studied photography, and have stayed with PENTAX throughout my entire professional career. I chose PENTAX because their cameras have always been lighter, very rugged, with superb optics with easy, fast working controls. This combination worked beautifully for me as a travel photographer who is always on location and frequently in rough terrain. My clients have consistently raved about the quality of the images I’ve submitted. My PENTAX cameras just always work, enabling me to concentrate on making great images for my clients, simple as that.“
Type of Photography
Adventure & Destination Travel
Favorite Equipment:
K-1 MarkII , 645Z , K-3 Mark III
and Theta Z1
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Follow:
Facebook: kerrick.james.5
Instagram: @kerrickjames5
Twitter: @kerrickjames
Rene Fisher
Location
Ontario, Canada
Rene Fisher is professional artist and an up and coming Nature and Travel Photographer based out of Ontario, Canada. For her, the greatest joy of photography is exploring the medium as an art form and sharing the resulting experimentation with others. She has dabbled in various art mediums such as traditional drawing and painting, digital art, and even 3D modeling, which she studied for her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. She has been using Pentax for most of her life as a hobby, however after graduating from college she upgraded from her K-X to a K-3 II and began taking her passion for photography more seriously. Around this same time she had just recently immigrated from the Southern United States to Ontario Canada, where much of the wildlife and landscapes were unfamiliar to her. This drastic change of scenery fueled her newfound fascination for nature photography, especially in regards to wildlife photography. She is inspired by Classical painters such as Albert Bierstadt for his epic and romantic landscapes, and Caravaggio for his intense, moody style and fearless use of black dark tones and contrast. Rene draws from this inspiration and uses it to create photographs that imitate a painting in colour, balance, contrast, and drama but still retain the detail and appearance of a photograph. Within 2 years of living and shooting in Canada, she was featured in a Canadian Geographic Collector’s Edition as a featured wildlife photographer, and attends Art Shows where she sells prints of her work.
I received my First Pentax DSLR as a gift in High School from my Dad, who used the brand in the 1980’s and still had some old lenses lying around. After careful consideration, we decided on the K-x as the perfect camera for my skill set and budget.That camera was light, easy to use and it served me well into adulthood. In 2017 I traveled to Italy and Greece with my K-X and took thousands of pictures and just loved how easy it was to travel with and was impressed with its durability. That trip rekindled my love for photography, but at that point I felt like I had outgrown my K-X and was ready for an upgrade. I did tons of research on all the latest camera models and features and ended up coming right back to Pentax. I just loved the comfort and ruggedness of Pentax cameras, and enjoyed how simple the menus and features were to navigate and control. I also really appreciated the commitment to backwards compatibility with older lenses, and found the quality of a lot of Pentax glass was superb. Most of all however, I found the RAW files that Pentax cameras produce are incredibly versatile and offer a wonderful dynamic range and beautiful colour rendering, making it the perfect choice for my work.