vancouver fashion and portrait photography

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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...

Last week in Vancouver was BC Fashion Week and we had Kris on hand to shoot many of the shows including Anna Kosturova's runway show on Thursday night. More of our photos from this show available over at Flickr . Cassie wrote up a great review of the show that is available over at Exposure Online Magazine and excerpted here...

We shot 6 runway shows last week at BC Fashion Week 2007 . Here's links to the posts that include photographs.

Jacqueline Conoir
Jason Matlo
Ginni Kelley
Christina Darling
Generation Next
Anna Kosturova

Fashion Week was a ton of fun. We met lots of great Canadian fashion designers and representatives from the local fashion media scene. It was also a great chance to catchup with many of our favorite models, stylists, hair and makeup pros.

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.

Someone recently left a copy of Androgyny Magazine behind at our studio and we've found it totally inspiring. So inspiring in fact that we quickly pulled together a creative fashion shoot based on the lovely aesthetic of the magazine. Vancouver models Patron and Malloreigh were great... they both had the perfect look for a shoot like this and was a pleasure to work with. Check out the rest of the photographs from this shoot over at Flickr.

The Police recently kicked off their reunion tour here in Vancouver and Static Photography was on hand to take some photos of their dress rehersal. As long time fans of Sting and The Police it was amazing to hear them live (something we never imagined happening) and to be able to photograph them the night before they spin up their world tour. As an added bonus that night we ran into Lawrence Fishburne (Morpheus) at the concert and had the chance to take his photo as well.

Static Photography recently had the chance to do headshots and some fun creative portraits for Vancouver-based country-rock popstar AJ Woodworth . This shoot was so fun... AJ provided her own hair and makeup professionals and we spent a hilarious couple hours working our way from location to location with AJ's rockin' acapella vocals keeping us inspired all along the way. AJ and crew were exceptional to work with... beautiful and energetic and we think the shots show through her awesome personaility and smokin good looks. Lookin' forward to a new album from AJ (and hopefully some free tix to her shows!) here this fall.

We've really been learning a ton about flashes, strobes and studio lighting for fashion photography in the past year and one of the main avenues for my education has been assisting other working photographers on their creative projects.

Some cold wet Saturday's in Vancouver it's just plain hard to get rolling. To fire up our creative juices this weekend, Static pulled together a shoot with aspiring models Margaret Torgerson, Jordan Petryk and Bill MacEwan to build up their portfolios and have some fun.

We recently had the chance to wander around Gastown and dowtown Vancouver with actor and musician Mark Huculak. He looks like Justin Timberlake and sounds like Akon and he was an absolute pleasure to hang-out with and shoot.

Early last year I posted a blog post called Vancouver Photography Blogs and Photoblogs and linked to a several of my favorite photography related blogs coming out of Vancouver. Since the time of that post I've come across several others and figured it was time to update the list with these additions:

This is a very exciting week for me as I prep with the rest of the organizing team for Northern Voice 2007 and MooseCamp.. I'm going to be leading a PhotoCamp as a part of the event and am wondering who else will be there?

Didja catch all that? I know it's a lot... here's a couple quick descriptions.

Northern Voice - Vancouver's 3rd annual personal publishing conference held out at UBC. Saturday, February 24th @ UBC.

We recently had the chance to do a fun fashion editorial photoshoot with Natalie Pagnucco. We used several impromtu Vancouver photoshoot locations including an alley along Water Street in Gastown, and Matthew Good's apartment.

Kdon over at Discollection is an amazing designer and stylist. I've been using her for lots of Static Photography shoots lately and was even more impressed than usual in the job she did styling the Ashley-Rae photoshoot with awesome designer vintage clothes from her store.