vancouver fashion and portrait photography

TED took Vancouver by storm when the firt ever TEDx Vancouver was organized and held on Saturday November 21st at EA Video Games in Burnaby. This one day conference was full of speakers, videos of TED talks and musicians that followed the main idea of 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. TED is a series of conferences that are centrally focused on technology, enterainment and design. Held all over the world, TED is often synonymous with inspiring ideas, motivating ancedotes and informational sessions that propel the audience into the future.

Translated as the sound of conversation Pecha Kucha is the optimized vision of creative presentations. At every Pecha Kucha Night around the world, each presenter is allowed 20 images shown at 20 seconds a piece, with a grand total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds for their entire presentation. Having this time limit really keeps presentations down to just the good stuff.

This was the fifth time that Pecha Kucha has happened in Vancouver . Kris Krug was chosen with 11 other presenters to speak on varying topics. Krug's discussion was a visual handbook on open-sharing . He was positioned along side Rex Weyler 's photo presentation from the startup of Greenpeace , Dolly Hopkins ' discussion on her involvement with the Illuminaries Festival , and Shawna Cox 's documentary adventure with the desert races .

The entire night was a direct onslaught of intelligent creative individuals creating art and social change, all within the city limits of Vancouver. The entire sold out theatre was filled with creative individuals. Everyone left feeling very inspired or super intimidated!  
The 6th installment of Pecha Kucha is scheduled for May 21, 2009 at the Park Theatre .

This summer the Static team met up with local Vancouver fashion designer Kim Cathers , and shot the new pieces from the mini-collection, Dorthy Goes to the Moulin Rouge. In addition to being an amazing fashion designer kdon 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. :)

One of the perks of being a Vancouver based fashion photographer is having the opportunity to work with and shoot for awesome local brands like Arson . Merging Static's photographic ingenuity with creative director John Chow's stylistic vision was an important goal for the Spring 2008 catalogue photoshoot, and we knew that our awesome models, Jesse Harris and Jules Moore, could pull off the retro-70's look perfectly.