About Udi Edni and Pix®Me ('Pix-Are-Me')
Pix®Me specializes in candid photography of children.
It’s great being a parent, but it’s even more fun when you get to see what your kids are doing when you are not with them, at school, camp or a baseball game. To see them happy, playing, exploring and having fun. Not to miss all those special moments.
No one prepared me for the mountains of love and joy that children treasure, that being a dad could be so addictive and fascinating. I started Pix®Me not because of my love for photography but because of my love for my children. I wanted to spend more time with them, to better know their world. Not just to see them for a split second at home before going to school and before bedtime, but in-between. To see them with their friends and adventures, to try and see things through their eyes. So, from the moment my first child was born I picked up a camera, started shooting photos and I haven’t stopped since.
Pix®Me opens a window to our children's world, see them as they are, unposed and not ready. Many can take thousands of photos, yet only a few will show the true essence of a child, my goal is to 'be there' for you and capture the star in your child. I believe that every child is a star and no amount of great photos is ever enough.
The Pix-R-Me Story, this is how it all began:
When my daughter started pre-school we lived in Needham, MA. but I was traveling a lot mostly to New York City, working as a visual effects artist on films and commercials as I had done for the past 15 years. Luckily enough, between projects I had the luxury to spend time at my daughter’s preschool, so I started taking photos as most parents would do.
It was great fun taking photos of my child but I thought to myself that it wasn't fair to the other parents that couldn't be there, so I started taking photos of every single child in the classroom using my little pocket camera and sharing them with the parents. At the end of the school year I ended up with over two thousand photos. At the time, I knew very little about digital photography, luckily, I understood a bit more about light, colors and framing as I've been working with images for many years. Parents loved my photos and it didn’t take long before I became the unofficial "official class photographer", and the word started to speard among the other classes.
Years passed by, teachers changed, our family grew and the more pictures I took, the more heartfelt thanks and further requests from parents to take photos of their kids in other classes. After 3 years of taking photos of all the children in my daughter's class, I approched the school with a proposal to allow me to take photos of all the children in the school and before long, instead of working on making cars and models look prettier or the actors look better, I was cleaning up noses on the photos of two year old kids at my daughter's school - and I loved it!
This is how Pix®Me was born.
The True Meaning of Life/ By the XIVth Dalai Lama
"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do somethiing good, something useful with our lives. If you contribute to other people's hapiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life."
Udi Edni
A passionate Dad, Photographer, Pix®Me Founder
Professional Photographers of America.
To see more of Udi's work you can visit: vfxdesign.com and thewhiteone.com
