About the Photographer - Christian Kieffer

After graduating from the South East Center of Photographic studies in Daytona Beach Florida, I was chosen from 4,000 photographers to intern and eventually staff at Walt Disney Creative Photography department in Orlando Florida. In my time with Disney I was required to handle many large-scale photography shoots including national advertizing campaigns and many film and television projects. I had many photographs published by Disney including much of the opening promotions for the Animal Kingdom theme park. In 1999 I left Disney and moved west to Los Angeles where I began working in the film industry shortly after arriving. I worked primarily as a location scout for the studios on commercial and film projects. I have worked on over a hundred productions including Vanilla Sky, Swordfish, AI, BMW films.com projects and many TV commercials. In 2004 I moved to Melbourne Australia where I had an opportunity to live and work on some editorial images as well as some personal photography. I returned in 2006 to the east coast where I am from. Shortly after, I met my wife Gili and we started our own multimedia company called Elysium Multimedia. I was highly motivated to start my own project that I would have total control of, so I reached back to my past to the things that I was inspired by to help form the original concepts for the “Warbird Pinup Girls” calendar. Today we are on our 6th annual edition.