I met Ketan in a high school art class about 5 years ago. Last year, I asked him about modeling for me for a school project. His schedule was incredibly busy and it just couldn’t happen at the time. He asked me later if I would be interested in meeting up still and talking about some other photography opportunities. He told me he had helped create this company and online blog. Basically, Ketan Jogia, Mike Despotovic, and Peter Bohdal are co-founders of This Is Vancity, which is a blog that focuses on multimedia storytelling with a goal to expose and connect our communities. Through documenting and highlighting creativity, culture and entrepreneurship in Vancouver, they look to celebrate and highlight this city’s creative communities.

I still haven’t met Peter because he always seems to be out of town, but I can say that Mike and Ketan are great guys! I photographed a Behance event for them early last year that they did a great job of organizing and got the chance to meet some awesome people! Soon after that I went away on my travels and we lost contact for a bit, but after reconnecting with them over coffee we came up with some awesome new ideas. One thing we talked about doing sometime was having me take some new headshots for them. We played around with some different lighting set ups and outfits to get some awesome shots that reflected their personalities and could be used for a variety of platforms, ranging from casual to more professional. Take a look at what we came up with and be sure to check out their blog!

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