Photographing Newborns

Mimika Cooney is an international award winning photographer, published author, speaker and small business marketing expert. She enjoys sharing her business marketing and photography knowledge, both online and at workshops, to other professional photographers and small business owners. She owns a residential portrait studio specializing in beauty, glamour and baby portraiture based in Charlotte, North Carolina.Born in South Africa, Mimika received her photographic training in England and is accredited licentiate by the British Institute of Professional photographers (BIPP) and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP).TelevisionMimika's work has appeared on television on an American PBS TV documentary Newborn Birth Injuries: the Untold Story”. Mimika has worked as a live on-air television broadcaster hosting a morning breakfast magazine show York Today in York, England, and has experience in the modeling and TV industry. She received television presenting training in South Africa from Nadia Bilchick (current CNN news anchor). Her training in public speaking, make-up application and posing have proven useful in her chosen career.SpeakingShe travels the world to speak at professional photography conventions training other professional photographers and small business owners in both the USA and UK. She has spoken twice at the prestigious SWPP photographic convention in London, England, and will return again in January 2014.TeachingMimika now focuses on teaching other photographers the fundamentals of business and marketing through her online school Photography Profits Zoom.BusinessMimika has worked and owned four businesses in three countries along with her husband in South Africa, England and the USA. With six years' experience in website design, public relations and business administration in South Africa and England; she spent 15 years as a specialist portrait artist and photographer.Mimika has been mentored and undergone training by the photography and business industries most renown authorities like Sarah Petty, Michael Port and David P. Macdonald.