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The image you have of yourself is the picture others see

Great business leaders understand that to motivate people, move markets, raise capital and achieve success, personal involvement is essential in each and every challenge. Leadership is an active not a passive activity.

Corporate image has as much to do with the image projected by company leaders as it does business fundamentals. In today’s digital and media-saturated world, an executive portrait may be the market’s first and most frequent exposure to you.

Your communications strategy should include exploiting your image to the fullest. Your image, in effect, becomes a proxy for the corporation. It represents both your personal and corporate brand and a means of distinguishing yourself and your corporation from the competition.

Everybody can be photogenic but it takes expertise to deliver it. A professional portrait is the sum of intelligent collaboration between you and your photographers.

Our Work

Our Work

Our Work

Our Work

Our Portfolio

Our client list is over 4,000 people including: the crème de la crème of the Banking, Financial, Insurance, High Tech, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Public Relations and Fashion industries and just about any other industry one could mention.

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Headlines

Headlines

Headlines

Headlines

Pierre Gravelle

Dear Yanka and Henk,

I want to thank you for your time and patience yesterday. I really enjoyed our dynamic and stimulating conversations as well as the experience.

Your are superb professionals and wonderful people.

Robin Kennedy

The only people who I will ever have photograph me are Yanka and Henk Van der Kolk. I have known these consummate professionals for 30 years which was when I had my first experience of them.

Yanka has a unique ability to pull out one’s innerlight, communicating through the eyes rather than through a smile that typically closes down this powerful communication channel.

Anyone I have ever referred to them has been blown away and forever grateful.

Sean M. MacGillis

Genius in this world comes in many forms, and in working with Yanka and Henk, true genius will come from you.

James Temerity

Chairman of Northland Power

Magic, nothing less.

Testimonials & Headlines

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Women's Post: "She coaches subjects into giving supermodel performances for the camera"

National Post: "You can make even the most camera-shy subjects photogenic."

Toronto Star: "Yanka gives her subjects an extraordinary radiance in her photographs."

The Humphrey Group: "Dear Yanka, You do work magic."

Fashion Magazine: "Van der Kolk is an image guru."

Toronto Sun: "Yanka is the girl with a thousand faces."

Client: "The only people who I will ever have photograph me are Yanka and Henk Van der Kolk."

Our client list is over 4,000 people including: the crème de la crème of the Banking, Financial, Insurance, High Tech, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Public Relations and Fashion industries and just about any other industry one could mention.

Photo Courtesy: Cole Burston / For the Toronto StarWritten by: Rita Zekas / For the Toronto Star — Photo Courtesy: Cole Burston / For the Toronto Star
Written by: Rita Zekas / For the Toronto Star

Recently Featured in the Toronto Star

"She, Yanka Van der Kolk, is an iconic model/photographer/image consultant. He, Henk Van der Kolk, is a producer of educational and industrial pictures and five feature films and who — with Bill Marshall and Dusty Cohl — in 1976 founded the Festival of Festivals which today is the internationally renowned Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2012, Henk established the International Film Festival Panama.

Together, they run her business, Imaging & Photography, out of their home, a 1,700-square-foot loft in a commercial/residential space at Broadview and Eastern Aves..."

An excerpt from our November 12, 2016 article that appeared in the Toronto Star