Chicago Anniversary Photographers

After Ahmed el Ainouni started his freelancing career as a lifestyle, portrait & action sports photographer& videographer in 2014 in Amsterdam, he soon started travelling for his assignments in Europe & the US. Since 2019 he's fully based in Chicago. He has worked with businesses as well as individuals and is usually responsible for both, pre- and post-production. Therefore his expertise ranges from concept creation, capturing visuals to retouching and handing over the final product to his clients.

Lena Vieira is a professional photographer that has been working in the business since 2006 right out of high school. She has her bachelors and masters degrees in photography where she has used her craft to express herself as a fine art artist along with bringing her many clients ideas to life with her photography skills. In 2012 Lena decided to leave her small town life in Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue her dream for the big city and started Vieira Photo. She wanted to do more with her photography career started to develop a passion of giving back to the community of teaching photography and its art to students of all ages around Chicagoland. Her work helped create an after school program for teens to attend and learn how to become artists. Lena has a strong passion in photographing the Autism community with working with families and organizations for the past few years. Lena has a strong passion for all areas of photography but her specialty is portraits.

Tony Menias is an award winning and published photographer. He travels the world to capture the human condition in its beauty and essence. He continues to inspire many through his visual story telling and captivating view of the world. He specializes in all kinds of photography; From travel, street, and documentary to families, couples, weddings and events.

Jorge Alvarado aka Arturo Alva, has five years of experience in different cities across America he also has a diploma in advertisement photography from EFTI in Madrid, Spain. Originally from El Salvador where he started his career, he has lived and worked in Houston, Tx and also Chicago, Illinois.

I am a professional artist and traveler with over 5+ years of experience traveling, modeling, and working with professional photographers. With my Bachelors in Fine Arts, I have taken multiple courses for the past decade to expertise my skills in photography, photo manipulation, and graphic design. From my education and experience, I have been allowed to pair with some of the top photographers in Asia. My abundance of experience in the visual arts as a painter and designer has allowed me to expand my vision and understanding of light and composition. You can see my work at www.artyb.art