About Chantelle Flores
Chantelle Flores is an international travel and lifestyle photographer, digital marketer, travel writer and Humanitarian on the journey to honour her father’s legacy. She originates from South Africa and has now established herself in Zurich, Switzerland.
Dedication, Motivation and Compassion
A self-taught entrepreneur, Chantelle has become a renowned personality across the globe after working in over 85 countries. Most would consider her an over achiever, yet she attributes her success to her constant need to learn as well as her determination, commitment and hard work mastering the visual arts over the last 17 years.
Although she never studied photography, her portfolio of work is a testimony of her diverse artistic talent and unrelenting love for the art. Primarily known for pushing the boundaries, her photographs are a fresh take on the natural world - full of energy, mood and movement. She has a knack for finding beauty in what’s perceived as common by others and appreciates the uniqueness of the mundane. Like a butterfly embracing the beauty of a single flower, she likes to focus on the unnoticed – those things that we all look at, but never really see.
Her passion for photography at an early age, coupled with extensive and varied experiences, has evolved into the distinct and original style which is evident in her images. She has gained invaluable experience from an array of professions and activities that helped formulate her artistic vision. Having a degree in Psychology and Communications offers her a deeper understanding of emotions and communication. A career in marketing taught her various ways of communicating a vision and serving as a humanitarian has given her insight into photojournalism.
Being a highly compassionate and sensitive soul, she is driven by emotive storytelling and these two factors are the central pillars of her photography. Her never-ending passion and her commitment to her vision motivates her to continue her quest of being constantly on the look out for a deeper meaning to life.
Her mission is to show the world to the world through her extensive collection of images, coupling it with uniquely written copies, such as her Holding onto Humanity series.
The traveller within
In addition to her love of people, the great outdoors have always been an integral part of Chantelle’s soul and became her underlying focus to channel her artistic vision and a means of self-expression.
Just like her father, Chantelle is a determined and carefree individual who rarely says no to anything. She is driven by the philosophy to try everything at least once and her spontaneous, “get-up-and-go” backpack wearing, camera-toting travel style steams from this.
Unleashing her true potential
She believes that one can’t grow in a comfort zone and has firm faith in her capabilities. She never shies away from taking risks and when the time came to choose either to stay safe or to take a bold risk in life, she chose to take a blind leap of faith and go after everything she had always dreamt about.
She built her entire career on risk-taking and the benefits far exceed her financial possibilities. It built her resilience to failure and through the process, she learned how to overcome and master her fears.
In 2009, she resigned from her highly-paying-successful marketing position to focus on Kzara Visual full-time. In 2017, she took another bold risk and joined the nomad life full time whilst fulfilling her passion for exploring new places. She sold up everything she owned in South Africa and bought a one-way ticket to Spain with not a single plan in mind.
Since then, she has been committed to the visual world and possibilities have opened up to what you see from Kzara Visual today. In 2025 - she is still staying true to her core but this time out of her permanent residence base in Switzerland.
Awards and In the Media
Awards
In the media section