Kike San Martín
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Kike San Martín is a celebrity photographer. He has developed most of his photographic career in Miami, Florida
, where he currently resides since 1995. He started his professional career in the early 90s in Argentina.
, Univisión
, Mega TV , and América Tevé; and some of his photographs have been featured in the cover of magazines such as People en Español
, Vanidades
, Maxim
, Selecta, Men's Health
, H Magazine
, Kena
, Santo Domingo Times, and Venue
, among others.
At the beginning he was assigned to cover social events and the glamorous life of Miami. One of the opportunities that were presented to Kike was to become paparazzi for Spanish photography agencies. During that period, San Martin achieved several exclusives. These photos gained him popularity by being invited to television programs and articles in magazines. Kike felt that his time as a paparazzi photographer came to an end and it was time to explore new areas as a professional; in searches for stability to form a family. He changed his priorities and decided to take a turn on his career and start as a commercial and celebrity portrait photographer, without a doubt a period where he had much to discover. He perfects his skill by taking lighting and dramatic portraiture classes in Hollywood, Florida
and editorial photography classes in Santa Fe
, New Mexico
.
Following his branding in the entertainment industry, San Martin begins to take more important assignments every time like soap opera posters and shows for international TV networks like Telemundo
, Univisión
, Mega TV and América Tevé and his powerful magazine covers for People En Español
, Vanidades
, Maxim
, Selecta, Men's Health
, H Magazine
, Kena
, Santo Domingo Times and Venue
, among others.
There have been numerous celebrities that have posed in front of San Martin’s lens including: the popular MTV
presenter Mario Lopez
; the lead actress of "Rush Hour 2
" Roselyn Sanchez
; Miss Universe
Dayanara Torres
; the singers Gloria Trevi
and Fanny Lú
; the actor Eduardo Verástegui
; and the singer Luis Fonsi
; soap opera actors Mauricio Islas
, Miguel Varoni
, Catherine Siachoque
, Aylín Mújica
, William Levy
, Jencarlos Canela
, Mauricio Ochmann
and Gabriela Spanic
and the Latin American Idol
winner, Margarita Henríquez
, among others.
In the music world he photographed several album covers for Ricardo Montaner
, José Feliciano
, “El Puma” José Luis Rodríguez
, Willy Chirino
, Karime Lozano, "El Baby de la Salsa" Jerry Rivera
, Alvaro Torres
, Russian “Pop” singer Slava
and the pianist Yanni
, in addition to the book cover of music producer Kike Santander
.
Considered a guru of digital Photography; along with his team, San Martin produces complex photo compositions of quality beyond measure. Among his selective clientele are Sony Music, Universal Music Group
, NBC
, Telemundo, Univisión, Bud Light, Miller Lite
, Wannado City
, Direct TV, Coors
, Rafael Cennamo, Big Ox, Wonderfund and Avon
.
Additionally, Kike is active in the media, he collaborates intensely as a special visitor and judge for the popular Univision show “Sabado Gigante
” hosted by the legendary television host Don Francisco
, in a segment titled “Academia de Reinas.” He also appeared on several occasions in television shows for Cristina, Maité and Alexis Valdés
, in other channels of the small screen.
Today, he is a member of "The Recording Academy" and since 2008 he was a judge for the Latin Grammy Awards
in the category of Packaging.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, where he currently resides since 1995. He started his professional career in the early 90s in Argentina.
Professional career
Kike began his career studying marketing and advertising. Working in a fashion boutique, he developed a marketing strategy that included photographing regular people wearing the boutique's clothing out in Argentina's night scene. Kike's earliest work attracted tremendous popular attention, so much that the spontaneous and creative images caught the interest of a regional newspaper. As a result, he developed a section in the Sunday supplement dedicated to capture the spontaneous heart and spirit of Argentinas' nightlife. Since this first job, Kike's work in the editorial industry has included a freelance job in the newspaper El Nuevo Herald; assignments for soap opera posters and TV networks like TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
, Univisión
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
, Mega TV , and América Tevé; and some of his photographs have been featured in the cover of magazines such as People en Español
People en Español
People en Español is a Spanish-language American magazine published by Time Inc. that debuted in 1996, originally as the Spanish-language edition of its publication People...
, Vanidades
Vanidades
Vanidades is one of the most popular Spanish language women's magazines. Published by Editorial Televisa across the United States and Hispanic America, it was launched in Cuba in 1931 as a humor magazine, but eventually became a women's magazine in the early 1940s. When Fidel Castro took the...
, Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
, Selecta, Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
, H Magazine
H Magazine
h Magazine is an American magazine, published by Apple Ridge Films, that covers entertainment news, film, television music, theatre, books, multimedia and popular culture. h's primary concentration is on entertainment media and critical reviews...
, Kena
Kena
Kena is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. It is located on the state border with Belarus and has railway customs for all passenger trains from/to Belarus and Russia, including transit trains to Kaliningrad Oblast. According to the census of 2001, Kena had 90 residents....
, Santo Domingo Times, and Venue
Venue (magazine)
Venue is the what's on magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK.It was founded in 1982 by journalists who had been working for another Bristol magazine, Out West, which had been consciously modelled on London's Time Out magazine....
, among others.
At the beginning he was assigned to cover social events and the glamorous life of Miami. One of the opportunities that were presented to Kike was to become paparazzi for Spanish photography agencies. During that period, San Martin achieved several exclusives. These photos gained him popularity by being invited to television programs and articles in magazines. Kike felt that his time as a paparazzi photographer came to an end and it was time to explore new areas as a professional; in searches for stability to form a family. He changed his priorities and decided to take a turn on his career and start as a commercial and celebrity portrait photographer, without a doubt a period where he had much to discover. He perfects his skill by taking lighting and dramatic portraiture classes in Hollywood, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
and editorial photography classes in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
.
Following his branding in the entertainment industry, San Martin begins to take more important assignments every time like soap opera posters and shows for international TV networks like Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
, Univisión
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
, Mega TV and América Tevé and his powerful magazine covers for People En Español
People en Español
People en Español is a Spanish-language American magazine published by Time Inc. that debuted in 1996, originally as the Spanish-language edition of its publication People...
, Vanidades
Vanidades
Vanidades is one of the most popular Spanish language women's magazines. Published by Editorial Televisa across the United States and Hispanic America, it was launched in Cuba in 1931 as a humor magazine, but eventually became a women's magazine in the early 1940s. When Fidel Castro took the...
, Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
, Selecta, Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
, H Magazine
H Magazine
h Magazine is an American magazine, published by Apple Ridge Films, that covers entertainment news, film, television music, theatre, books, multimedia and popular culture. h's primary concentration is on entertainment media and critical reviews...
, Kena
Kena
Kena is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. It is located on the state border with Belarus and has railway customs for all passenger trains from/to Belarus and Russia, including transit trains to Kaliningrad Oblast. According to the census of 2001, Kena had 90 residents....
, Santo Domingo Times and Venue
Venue (magazine)
Venue is the what's on magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK.It was founded in 1982 by journalists who had been working for another Bristol magazine, Out West, which had been consciously modelled on London's Time Out magazine....
, among others.
There have been numerous celebrities that have posed in front of San Martin’s lens including: the popular MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
presenter Mario Lopez
Mario López
Mario Michael Lopez, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared on several television series, in films, and on Broadway. He is best known for his portrayal of the character A.C. Slater on Saved By The Bell, which he also portrayed as a regular on Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
; the lead actress of "Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 martial arts action comedy film. This is the second installment in the Rush Hour film series. A sequel to the 1998 film Rush Hour, the film stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Los Angeles police detective James Carter...
" Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sánchez is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, model, actress, producer and writer of film and television.-Early life:...
; Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
Dayanara Torres
Dayanara Torres
Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, and former Miss Universe.Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant and the right...
; the singers Gloria Trevi
Gloria Trevi
Gloria Trevi is a Mexican pop-rock singer-songwriter. She was described as the "Supreme Diva of the Mexican Pop" by the music channel VH1 and sold over 20 million records.-Biography:...
and Fanny Lú
Fanny Lu
Fanny Lucía Martínez Buenaventura , known professionally as Fanny Lú, is a Colombian singer-songwriter and actress from Santiago de Cali, Colombia.-Early life:...
; the actor Eduardo Verástegui
Eduardo Verástegui
Eduardo Verástegui is a Mexican model, singer, and actor.- Biography :Verástegui was born in Mante, Tamaulipas, México and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. He moved to Mexico City to pursue modeling, landing work with Calvin Klein among others...
; and the singer Luis Fonsi
Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...
; soap opera actors Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas is a Mexican television and film actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.-Early life:...
, Miguel Varoni
Miguel Varoni
Miguel Américo Belloto Gutiérrez born 11 December 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Colombian-Argentinian host, actor and director...
, Catherine Siachoque
Catherine Siachoque
'Catherine Siachoque is a Colombian actress best known for her roles in numerous telenovelas.-Career:...
, Aylín Mújica
Aylín Mújica
Aylín Mújica is a Cuban actress, model, and ballet dancer who currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico.- Career :Mújica began modeling at age 13. She posed nude in the Spanish magazine Interviu and appeared in a sexy photoshoot at the H para Hombres magazine as well...
, William Levy
William Levy
William Levy , known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy....
, Jencarlos Canela
Jencarlos Canela
Jencarlos Canela is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas Más Sabe el Diablo and Mi Corazón Insiste.-Biography:...
, Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
and Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic , or Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her twin sister is model/actress Daniela Spanic. She has a younger sister Patricia, and two brothers Antonio and Adiel...
and the Latin American Idol
Latin American Idol
Latin American Idol is the Latin American edition of the popular British franchise of Idols, well-known for its American version American Idol. The show aims to discover the pop idol of the Latin American region...
winner, Margarita Henríquez
Margarita Henríquez
Margarita Henríquez is the winner of the third season of Latin American Idol which she won on October 9, 2008.- Biography :...
, among others.
In the music world he photographed several album covers for Ricardo Montaner
Ricardo Montaner
Ricardo Montaner is an Argentine-Venezuelan singer and songwriter. Starting his career in the early 80s, he has already released more than 15 albums with numerous successful singles and has sold over 22 million record worldwide.-Early years:Montaner was born as Héctor Eduardo Reglero Montaner, in...
, José Feliciano
José Feliciano
José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
, “El Puma” José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez may refer to:*José Luis Rodríguez , , former Argentine football striker*José Luis Rodríguez González , El Puma, , Venezuelan singer and actor...
, Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino, born April 5, 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba, is an entertainer and singer in the salsa style.-Early Family Life:...
, Karime Lozano, "El Baby de la Salsa" Jerry Rivera
Jerry Rivera
-Albums:* Empezando a Vivir Sony Music* Abriendo Puertas * Cuenta Conmigo * Cara de Niño...
, Alvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres is a Salvadoran singer and songwriter. His current Record Label is Big Dream Christian Music located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.-Biography:...
, Russian “Pop” singer Slava
Slava
The Slava , also called Krsna Slava and Krsno ime , is the Serbian Orthodox tradition of the ritual celebration and veneration of a family's own patron saint. The family celebrates the Slava annually on the patron saint's feast day...
and the pianist Yanni
Yanni
Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
, in addition to the book cover of music producer Kike Santander
Kike Santander
Dr. Flavio Enrique Santander Lora, commonly known as Kike Santander, is a Colombian composer, record producer, arranger and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the principal Latino composers of the day, having worked with artists such as David Bisbal, Christian Castro, Thalía, Chayanne,...
.
Considered a guru of digital Photography; along with his team, San Martin produces complex photo compositions of quality beyond measure. Among his selective clientele are Sony Music, Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, Telemundo, Univisión, Bud Light, Miller Lite
Miller Lite
Miller Lite is a 4.2% abv pale lager brand sold by MillerCoors of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Sibling beers include Miller Genuine Draft and Miller High Life.-History:...
, Wannado City
Wannado City
Wannado City was an indoor role-playing amusement center at the Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. It was a property of Grupo CIE. Billed as "where kids can do what they wanna do," it was a child-sized representation of a metropolis where children aged 2-14 could...
, Direct TV, Coors
Coors Brewing Company
The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world's fifth-largest brewing company, the Canadian Molson Coors Brewing Company and is the third-largest brewer in the United States...
, Rafael Cennamo, Big Ox, Wonderfund and Avon
Avon Products
Avon Products, Inc. is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $9.9 billion worldwide as of 2007.-Business Model:...
.
Additionally, Kike is active in the media, he collaborates intensely as a special visitor and judge for the popular Univision show “Sabado Gigante
Sábado Gigante
Sábado Gigante is a Spanish-language television show that is Univision's longest-running program and the longest-running variety TV show in the world. Sábado Gigante is an eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment...
” hosted by the legendary television host Don Francisco
Don Francisco (television host)
Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
, in a segment titled “Academia de Reinas.” He also appeared on several occasions in television shows for Cristina, Maité and Alexis Valdés
Alexis Valdés
Alexis Valdés is a Cuban actor, comedian, monologist, film producer and screenwriter born in Havana, on August 16.After receiving an engineering degree and working on the stage in Cuba for 10 years, he went to Spain in the 1990s, where he became very popular due to his performances in programs like...
, in other channels of the small screen.
Today, he is a member of "The Recording Academy" and since 2008 he was a judge for the Latin Grammy Awards
Latin Grammy Awards
A Latin Grammy Award is an accolade by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. Unlike the regular Grammy Award which primarily honors music produced in the United States, the Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the...
in the category of Packaging.