Linda Mackie is an award-winning personal brand and lifestyle photographer, makeup artist, and creative producer for the modern entrepreneur. An artist at heart, Linda’s portrait work is known and sought after for its natural, timeless, and modern feel. Her creative journey began with her profound love of all living things, passion for creative arts, and lifelong desire to make a difference in the world and inspire others to do the same. Together with her creative team, Linda is proud to offer photography, hair and makeup and brand and website design, and more recently, her fulfilling role as mentor to highly sensitive creatives like herself, helping them to navigate the world of business with more confidence and courage. As host of The Eloquent Entrepreneur podcast, Linda revels in highlighting entrepreneurs and changemakers and their stories to inspire the everyday changemaker in all of us. Whether you're an entrepreneur, notable personality, or mother of two, you make an impact. With that in mind, Linda offers a fresh and genuine approach to creating compelling images and a visual brand you envision and telling your story with heart. As your photographer and creative director, Linda aims to capture that special inner spark within and shine a light on you with compelling visual branding that reveals the soul, inspires connection, and makes a lasting impression.
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A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME...
My love for photography began at an early age but got super serious about it in 1998 when my dad gave me his 1970s Canon SLR. I was at the height of my career as a professional makeup artist all the while my passion for photography grew. While working as a professional makeup artist for fashion editorials and commercial advertising, I vigorously honed my skills shooting models, actors, and friends when an agency took note and was blown away by how I was able to capture one of their top models in a way she'd never been captured before. That was a turning point for me to step into photography professionally. I photographed everything from actors, models to weddings to corporate to families to pets to commercial to editorial and love it all. My passion for beauty, style, and authenticity combined with the know-how of communicating a brand or personal message of a person have come full circle where I am able to capture the soul light of a person in an editorial-style manner whilst telling their story in stunning imagery. Mostly self-taught, I drew upon the experience, knowledge and expertise of the many creative professionals I worked with and continue to stay up-to-date with professional education and business development. In 2004, I launched my photography business shooting personal lifestyle, weddings, fashion, editorial, commercial and non-profit work. I aim to create soulful, timeless imagery for clients with a vision to make a positive impact in the community. I'm committed to creating compelling images that reveal the soul, inspire connection and leave a lasting impression. My faith in people and love for children, animals and nature ever inspire me to live and work in a more compassionate and sustainable way. With a background in advertising, fashion editorial and the joy of motherhood, I find joy in capturing those magical fleeting moments in our everyday world creating imagery that could easily come out of a magazine. Although I often work with notable personalities and the like, I have discovered that much of my best work and happiest clients are those who don’t normally like having their picture taken (which is most of us!). The results are amazing and the most rewarding for me as a photographer with a mission to deliver joy to my clients and help them succeed in what they love doing. My warm heart and calm nature always carry me through for a fun and relaxed experience and my biggest joy is seeing my clients fully express and blossom in front of the camera so they come away feeling connected, inspired, and joyful themselves. That wonderful feeling of being lost in the moment has kept me hooked ever since. My keen eye for detail, empathetic nature, and unique style evolved into a strong passion and natural affinity for the portrait arts. My work has been published in SFU's Alumni Quarterly, Fresh Vancouver and TV Week magazines, and I was a featured photographer on ET Canada's Celebrity Makeover with Cheryl Hickey. Happy clients include notable television personalities Kevin Newman of CTV, Erin Cebula, Robin Stickley and Anne Drewa of Global Television, non-profits UBC + VGH Hospital Foundation of BC, BC Children's Hospital and the David Suzuki Foundation, commercial clients Mountain Equipment Coop, TransLink and TELUS, and a myriad of entrepreneurs, business owners, families, kids, couples and critters. Motivated by my passion for photography and lifelong desire to help make a difference in the world, I became a consultant with Beautycounter, a skincare and cosmetics company leading the way in the growing movement towards safer beauty, providing makeup and hair services for my portrait clients. My lifelong desire to help animals in need, I volunteered for the BC SPCA through fundraising and photographing adoption portraits. I created a pet photography website called Critters of the Earth (on hold for now) that provided my animal lover clients with artful imagery of furry friends & fauna along with uplifting and moving animal stories. I have a home studio located in Victoria, BC where I live with my creative husband and business partner Michael Chmara and our boy wonder Connor Boone, along with our sweet kitties Cosmo and Levi and gorgeous pup Sophie.
