Kevin Garrett

Photographer / Travel Writer / Visual Storyteller

I specialize in capturing images of the people, architecture, and natural beauty that bring the heart and soul of a place to life. My client Louisiana Northshore/St. Tammany Parish just won best visitors guide in the U.S. for the third year in a row. The director of marketing and public relations recently told me that I’d given St. Tammany a branded visual look. In 2021 2.9 million visitors yielded $1.02 billion in visitor spending.

My photos for the City of Sandy Springs, Georgia, won the international 2016 Hermes Creative Award for Best Tourism campaign in the government category, and one of my individual images took the Gold for Best Single Image in that same category. Since 2015, I’ve shot advertising campaigns as well as other branding and social media images for Sandy Springs.

From 2013 to 2021, I did the branding photography for Barnsley Resort in the Southern Living Collection. As of 2022, my images have helped Barnsley obtain the ad equivalency of more than $500 million in editorial placements. For two years, I was Starwood International’s top shooter, photographing all of its luxury brands. I’ve shot for numerous hotel companies, including Hilton, Marriott International and The Ritz-Carlton Company. I photographed all the images for the Le Meridian brand standard document, which is still in use. I also photographed all the images for the Le Meridian brand standard document, which is still in use. I shot the brand launch images for the Marriott Autograph Collection’s Scrub Island in the British Virgin Islands.

I’ve been a regular contributor to Coastal Living, Caribbean Travel & Life, Southbound, Town & Country, Covey Rise, Audi, Entrée (Neiman Marcus’ former magazine) and numerous others. My images won GAMMA gold awards from the Magazine Association of the Southeast for best magazine cover and best food shots. I’ve won two national awards for my work in Atlanta Magazine, beating out photographers from Esquire, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Texas Monthly, and New York Magazine. My work has garnered international awards from HOW Magazine, Archive and Print. My food shots were featured in Covey Rise’s GAME: The Chef’s Field to Table cookbook.

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