We work with some of the most talented photographers in the western U.S. We would like to thank each one and give you a brief profile of each.

Matt Liedecker:
Growing up in Ketchum, Idaho, Matt had no end to wild-country exploits, be they snowbound or waterlogged. Before heading to Vermont’s Middlebury College he raced with the Sun Valley Ski Team. As a junior in high school, he became a river guide on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. After graduating from college in 1997, Matt returned to Idaho and became a guide with Sun Valley Heli-Ski, continued to spend summers guiding river trips, and added professional photography to his outdoor pursuits. His work has been published in the Kavu and Black Diamond catalogs as well as magazines including Backcountry, Middlebury Magazine, and Travel and Leisure. Matt’s most notable photographic achievement to date is his publication of Impassable Canyon: Journey Down the Middle Fork of the Salmon (Sun Valley Press, 2002), a coffee-table collection of his images from Idaho’s Salmon River.

Hillary Mayberry:
Hillary is a freelance photographer based in Ketchum, Idaho. She specializes in sports and action photography, which includes such local favorites as snowsports, fly fishing, and rodeo, as well as wedding and children’s portraits. To see more of Hillary’s work, please visit www.hillarymayberry.com


Kevin Syms Photography:
Kevin Syms, long time resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, provides quality photographic services to the hospitality industry including hotels, resorts and casinos. Experienced in a myriad of photography, from architecture to lifestyles, Kevin Syms photography offers a cost efficient way of handling all of your advertising and marketing needs in one package. After 23 years in the business and many award winning shots, he brings an interesting, exciting, involving look to imagery.

www.kevinsyms.com
208.726.7318.


Fred Foto:
Fred Foto is a product of one of his competitors in the Snowthrill of Alaska. "I went to the Scott Markewitz school of posing," says Fred of his formal photography training. That was over seven years ago, and Foto was a ski model who often shot with the illustrious Markewitz. "That was back when skiers got paid, because we were models," he jokes. "Models get paid; freeskiers don't. That's why they're called "free".

Looking forward to a more secure future, the Boise, Idaho native bought his first camera off Markewitz and started shooting. It wasn't long before he was making a name for himself by working the other side of the camera. Now one of Freeze Magazine's primary shooters, Foto also shoots mountain biking, climbing, and took some of his most mind-blowing shots from a helicopter hovering over a surf break in Hawaii. Foto currently lives at the mouth of Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon, where he has been skiing for the last 12 years.

Sigi Vogl:
A Ketchum resident since 1999, Sigi is a first generation American with roots from Austria and Ecuador. Ever since his introduction to the mountains of his youth in the Bavarian Alps, Sigi has devoted his life to outdoor pursuits anywhere from the vertical walls of Yosemite to the steep slopes of the Alps. Being an all-around outdoor athlete, Sigi is an accomplished alpinist-climber, guide and backcountry skier of over three decades, Sigi’s passion for nature has been the motivator for a voracious appetite of “capturing the moment” through the lense of a camera, purely on a amateur basis. In winter you will find Sigi either on the fine nordic ski trails or ski touring in the backcountry of the Sun Valley area. During the summer months you will find him either exploring seldom climbed routes in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains or cragging at the City of Rocks with his new bride and long time climbing partner Natasha Sevilla. Sigi is currently Marketing Director for Sun Valley Heli Ski Guides, Inc.