Heidi Walter began her professional career as a free-lance photographer in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in portraits, public relations and event photography. Among her many clients were Harpo Productions (The Oprah Winfrey Show), Hershey Foods, The New Yorker Magazine, Mobile Oil, The March of Dimes, The Chicago Dental Society, Northwestern Hospital and Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL.
Her photos have been published in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Ebony Male, The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Life Magazine (14 covers) and countless client newsletters and brochures.
The many personalities she photographed include Oprah Winfrey, Prince Charles, Michael Jordan, Louis Malle, Bill Kurtis, Gary Fencik of the Chicago Bears, Joan Kennedy and Patti Labelle. She was the still photographer for the feature film, “Who Am I This Time?” starring Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken and directed by Jonathan Demme.
Her environmental photos include scenes of the United States, Canada, England, France, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil.
Heidi received her BA in French from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, spending her junior year abroad at L’Institut d’Études Francaises pour Étudiants Étrangers in Aix-en-Provence, France. She studied photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the Winona School of Photography, as well as summers in Door County, Wisconsin at the Peninsula School of Arts.
While still in high school, she spent a summer living with a Japanese family in Tokyo, Japan under the sponsorship of The American Field Service.
Heidi was raised in a large family (six siblings) where the emphasis was on education. Both of her parents were journalists. Her father was the sports editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette during the 1930s and after the war became the manager of WJPG radio station. Her mother’s writings helped to set the editorial policies of the Press-Gazette and the Appleton Post-Crescent, specializing in politics and education. Both parents were involved in many community organizations.
After more than 25 years as a free-lance photographer, Heidi was sidelined by double vision in her shooting eye and this ultimately turned into multiple-vision. After consulting with a number of specialists, she had surgery to correct the problem, but by that time had gone on to her new career as an author and internet entrepreneur.
Beginning in the 1970s, Heidi began to explore various alternative therapies for healing, whether physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. In addition to traditional psychotherapy, she found great success with past-life work, cranial/sacral, network chiropractic, huna kane (a form of healing massage begun in Hawaii between 10,000 to 35,000 years ago), sudarshan kriya (the healing breath from the Art of Living Foundation), Ho’oponopono from The Foundation of I, Inc., as well as working with a number of personal coaches.
As an author and full-time internet marketer, Heidi creates and promotes products that focus on health and wellness as it is tied to the spiritual. Having experienced many personal breakthroughs on her own healing journey, she is in a good position to help others along their path.
Heidi Walter was a free-lance photographer in Chicago, IL USA for more than 20 years, specializing in on-location public relations and portrait photography. Her many subjects included Oprah Winfrey, Susan Sarandon and Prince Charles. Now an author and internet entrepreneur, her specialty is health and wellness as tied to the spiritual.
