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PERSONALITY: KALLIE B. RYAN

Get to know Kallie B. Ryan, the videographer from Utah (USA), the winner of POMPIDOO giveaway. Kallie (@kallieryan_) shares photos of her stylish Hazelnut Dreams Lima bag and answers questions about herself and photography.

5 Tips For the Traveling Photographer

Whether you’re planning to travel to the Amazon forest or getting lost in the narrow streets of a Mediterranean city, preparation for that journey will play an important role in the story you will tell afterwards. POMPIDOO Team has gathered TOP5 tips to help you get on your fabulous way, supported by lots of useful digital resources.

PERSONALITY: AYESHA MARTIN/LENSES&LOCALS

If you were wondering who’s that pretty blonde girl graciously posing with the POMPIDOO Geneva camera in different parts of the world on our Instagram account, it’s time to get to know Ayesha. Together with Gavin they stand behind the project called LENSES&LOCALS.

Top 10 Most Stylish Female Photographers Globally

The POMPIDOO team is here to present you a top list of our favourite fashionista-photographers around the globe – the ladies that touched our hearts not only with picturesque shots, but also with their in-and-out beauty and sense of style. We admire uniqueness and creativity of each of them, hence the sequence of the top list can be disregarded.

Margaret Zhang – a virtuoso of contrasts.

The depth and colourfulness of setting in each capture and the mind-blowing representation of urban beauty are the features that set this lady apart from everyone else. Her sense of style motivates millions of women around the world, so if you are looking for inspiration you came to the right person – @margaret__zhang.

5 great reasons to put a POMPIDOO under your tree!

It’s that time of year again… you’re thinking about the ideal gift to put a smile on the face of that special someone on Christmas morning, right?

PERSONALITY: STYLONYLON, LONDON, UK

We’ve learned about Stylonylon blog and its founder Julia Rebaudo back in 2013 and stayed in touch ever since. A freelance journalist turned blogger, photographer and sometimes stylist and consultant, Julia has written for a wide range of print and online publications including Elle, Time Out and The Guardian. Totally obsessed with digital publishing and creating beautiful imagery, Julia is a UK ambassador for Olympus and shoot on the Olympus Pen E-P5 and Pen E-PL7 with 17mm & 45mm lenses, that why we were totally excited about her recent review of the POMPIDOO Lima bag. Read an exclusive interview with Julia on the POMPIDOO Blog.

POMPIDOO Contest: Can you speak our language?

It seems that our stylish POMPIDOO camera bags are becoming quite the globetrotters! They’re now living in 29 countries all over the world – and we’re sure that their travels won’t stop there!

Of course, we’ve come to realise that not everyone in the world is searching for their next “stylish camera bag” in English, so we thought we’d have a bit of fun and see what these three little words look like in some of the world’s major languages.

Tokyo took our hearts and welcomed POMPIDOO stylish camera bags!

If you’re wondering whether Tokyo lives up to its reputation, it does – and then some! Not that we ever doubted that for a second! We’ve had the most amazing week and we’re just dying to share it with all of you!

We’re turning Japanese, we really think so!

It’s true! The POMPIDOO team has been invited to take part in the Latvian Design Days Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan – and we simply couldn’t turn down an exciting invitation like that! Organised by the Latvian Embassy in Japan, in association with Athalie Gallery, this event is not to be missed.

FOLLOWING THE IDEA

When one of the biggest Latvian business newspapers invited us to do an interview and asked a lot of questions about the past, present and future, we suddenly realised that we’re about to turn five years old!

Read the tastiest excerpts from an interview with POMPIDOO Founder Irina Kuzmina.

Personality – Andris Rubins

He is a public person. Never stands still, always creative and showing new sides of his personality. We know Andris Rubins as a Managing Director of the DDB Latvia, a local branch of the renowned international advertising agency. It’s fantastic that this time we can introduce him as a photographer with a keen eye on the beauty of Latvian nature.

PERSONALITY – MARILENA LETA, THE WINNER OF POMPIDOO LIMA

A beautiful lady won a beautiful bag – isn’t that lovely? We’re glad to have an opportunity to interview Marilena Leta from Sicily, the winner of the POMPIDOO Valentine’s Day giveaway, and to showcase some of her amazing pictures naturally charged with sun, love and life!

Milan Mania!

Wow, what a crazy few weeks it’s been! We just got back from Frankfurt and then it was off to Milan for the Lineapelle Trade Fair! We adore visiting Milan, the capital of fashion and all things stylish. The whole city is just a non-stop treat for the eyes!

POMPIDOO FOR “DIENAS BUSINESS” – START-UP CAPITAL Q&A

Irina Kuzmina, the founder of POMPIDOO, was asked to provide her comments on the entrepreneurial environment in Latvia, and to give some tips on how to assess the size of the start-up capital required for a new business.

It’s in the bag!

So, Santa’s been good to you! You’ve got your cool new camera and you couldn’t be happier with it. But, you know, every fab camera deserves a stylish camera bag…

PERSONALITY – TATIANA KREZEVSKA

We love coming across new and unique projects, such as Trail Chef. And we’re lucky to know the owner of this fantastic idea as well as being able to interview Tatiana.

FUNCTIONALITY AND EXTREME PROTECTION

We make functional things stylish – sounds familiar, right? We at POMPIDOO are obsessed with both! That’s why we simply couldn’t resist partnering with an extremely functional and innovative XRD® material producer.

TOP 5 COOL PHOTO INFOGRAPHICS

They say infographics develop your visual thinking and simplify perception of information. We at POMPIDOO say it cool and entertaining and we totally love it  That’s why today we are sharing a few from our special TOP!

GENERIC IMAGE TO CONVEY INFOGRAPHICS

THE HISTORY OF THE PHOTOGEAR – PART 2

Dear photographers and readers, lets continue our journey into the history of the photogear with us!

PERSONALITY – ELINE JACOBINE

Birthday gift and life companion in one go? Eline looked no more and chose POMPIDOO Palermo Lilac Sorbet! Read an exciting interview with this truly inspiring personality.