vancouver fashion and portrait photography

(photo by Dave Olson)

Static’s Kris Krug will be showing one his photographs at Vancouver's infamous Cheaper Show on Saturday the 21st. The Cheaper Show is an event that showcases 150 of the best emerging visual artists from Vancouver and all around the world. All of the 300+ pieces of artwork that is shown is on sale for $200. This is an excellent time for first time buyers or those who have a limited art budget.

This year the event is being held at the old Storyeum building on 142 Water Street and the theme is Unscene Artwork. The Show is from 7- Midnight and admission is free. Last year 1500 people showed up, if you want to avoid the line up you better come early.

In April Vancouver hosted its biannual Vancouver Fashion Week at Chapel Arts. Seasoned and emerging designers were given a chance to show from their Fall/Winter 2008 collections to an accepting audience of buyers, media, fashionistas, and photographers. Veteran Anna Sui brought in a packed house the first night with a stunning showing from her fall/winter line.

The Raconteurs started up their Shake, Rattle and Roll tour in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom this past April 20th. The venue was packed and Jack White and his suit, along with the rest of the crew kept the crowds energy up all night. Static Photogrpahy’s Kris Krug was right in the middle of the action, snapping photos for the legendary Rolling Stone. See all of The Raconteurs pictures on Kris’s Flickr page or rollingstone.com.

The Vancouver Internation Digital Festival, aka VIDFEST, recently hired Static Photography to photography their recent 'Charged Up' advertising campaign featuring several local tech celebrities. The project was a cool mashup of creative talents with concept and branding work being done by Mod7, design and layout by Smash Lab, and the photography by Kris Krug of Static.

Arson is a skate/snow/street brand that is based here in Vancouver. Over the past couple years we've been working with them on photography for their catalogs including this Fall/Winter 2008 Outwear and Streetwear lookbook. The photoshoot was a blast and the clothes looked great. We shot one day in a shut down highschool and the next day we took the schoolbus to the top of the local ski and snowboard resort.

Back in March, Static Photography's Kris Krug had an opportunity to shoot the legendary musical group R.E.M. in Austin, Texas during the SXSW 2008 music conference and festival. The festival showcased 1800 bands at 80+ venues around Austin.

Static has been photographing South by Southwest for 5 years now and has been lucky to meet many of our favorite musicians. This year one of Kris’ shots of Michael Stipe (R.E.M) was published on the front cover of the New York Press, a weekly newspaper dishing out the latest in music, film, dinning and more. You can check out all of Kris’s R.E.M. photos on his flickr page.

Check out the new ION Magazine blog - featuring Daily(ish) Reviews, behind the scenes peeks at fashion and music shoots, and access to guest list and insider info on the by now legendary ION parties.

Photographers only dream of having their photos published for National Geographic. This past February, Static’s own Kris Krug had this dream come true. Kris was at the 2007 Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine working as the official photographer.

Recently the Static Photography team had the pleasure of working with up and coming musician Victoria Herrmann. This shoot was a riot! Victoria is a fun loving spirit with a real passion for her industry. We worked with her expressive personality to create the most fitting and suitable photos. When it came to styling, we had her in multiple outfits to keep her fans interested and intrigued.

This summer the Static team met up with local Vancouver fashion designer kdon, and shot the new pieces from the mini-collection, Dorthy Goes to the Moulin Rouge. In addition to being an amazing fashion designer kdon (Kim Cathers) is also a wardrobe stylist here at Static Photography. After the shoot we sat down with Kim and got a little insight into the inspiration behind this collection.

In November we had the opportunity to travel to Beijing, China to photograph China Fashion Week 2007 at the Beijing Hotel . Static photographer Kris Krug was on hand for 7 runway shows over the course of three days. Above are a couple of our favorite photos from the weeks events. You can find many others over at kk+'s Flickr account . Look for posts and photographs here from each designer's show at China Fashion Week coming soon. :)

Friends Jon Hennessey and Chantal Hennessey have setup a boutique artist management firm here in Gastown called NOBASURA featuring an amazing lineup of Vancouver creative heavy hitters including Fiona Garden , Shiva Shabani , and Ian Daburn .

Their whole list of collaborators are the creme de la creme (how do you say that en espanol?) of the Vancouver fashion industry and are a pleasure to work with... we've had the opportunity to work with them on a couple shoots including this one for Opulence Magazine assisting Fiona Garden .

Recently we had another opportunity to assist Fiona Garden of nobasura on a fashion editorial photoshoot for Opulence Magazine. We helped with production, sets and locations and lighting. We had a blast and the photographs turned out amazing!

A couple weeks ago we had the chance to work with Fiona Garden of nobasura on this 'Magenta Galaxy' shoot for Color Magazine. We helped with lighting and posing and broke out our super special hidden glowstick talents. :)

Saturday night at The Modern we photographed Jason Matlo 's runway show. It wasn't (officially) a part of BC Fashion Week but was one of our favorite shows of the season nonetheless. All our photos from the show are available over at Flickr.

The highlight of BC Fashion Week was definitely the designer runway shows, including this show that we photographed by Ginni Kelley. All our photo's from this show are available over at Flickr . Check out Cassie's review of the Ginni Kelley show over at Exposure Online Magazine...

Our favorite show of BC Fashion Week was the runway show by Christina Darling . We loved the outfits, the production, the models, the styling... the whole package. All our photos from the show are available over at Flickr and be sure to read Cassie's wrap-up post over at Exposure Online Magazine and excerpted here...

Last week at BC Fashion Week we were on hand to shoot many of the shows including Jacqueline Conoir's runway show. Check out our pictures over at Flickr and read through an excerpt from Cassie's review (available at Exposure Online Magazine) below...