Kris Krug

Kris Krug (also known as "kk" and "kk+") is a fashion and editorial photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and founder of photography studio Static Photography. He is also a technologist who speaks internationally on the topics of Creative Commons, open source culture, photography and the Internet.
Biography
Krug was the president of an online magazine called Spark-online.com which he founded in October 1998. This was one of the earliest web communities available on the internet.
In March 2004 He started Bryght (a Drupal development company). Bryght was acquired by Raincity Studios, a comprehensive purveyor of services related to the Web and social media, in November 2007. By way of the acquisition, he served as President of Raincity Studios until March 2009.
He is an author, having co-written BitTorrent for Dummies with Susannah Gardner, an author/technologist. The book was published on September 30, 2005.
Krug is the organizer and founder of PhotoCamp, a photography unconference with BarCamp origins. He has organized five unconference events including BarCamp Shanghai,, Barcamp Vancouver, and the past three years of Northern Voice..
Krug is a well known contributor to the Flickr photo sharing community website having joined the site on July 29, 2004.
His photographs have appeared in JPG Magazine, ION Magazine, Business Week, Wired Magazine, and others. He has published interviews with technology personalities in Digital Web Magazine, and he has covered events as diverse as SXSW, the 2006 Winter Olympics, and the Consumer Electronics Show. He has been a regular guest on The Lab with Leo, a talk show devoted to technology and its effects on the G4Tech channel talking about topics like Facebook apps to the growing Chinese market. As a speaker, he has been invited to a number of media and technology events, such as SXSW.
Krug was featured in an article on the spread of Creative Commons material and Flickr.
Krug is the co-founder of VanDigiCam, an association of photographers in Vancouver, BC, with over 300 current members.
Photography
Music Photography
In 2008, Krug published photographs of Jack White and The Raconteurs on RollingStone.com. He also had selected a candid photo of R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe chosen for the front cover of the New York Press. The photograph selected was shot by Krug at SXSW 2008.
Fashion Photography
Krug has photographed lookbooks for local Vancouver designers DOMESTIC apparel company and kdon of Project Runway Canada. In February 2009 Krug attended New York Fashion Week and shot shows for Zac Posen, William Rast, Ports 1961, Miss Sixty, Barbie's 50th Anniversary Show, and the African Fashion Collective featuring Grace Jones. He is also a resident photographer for local Vancouver fashion/culture publication ION Magazine .
Art shows
In 2008 Krug's photographic works were curated into four local Vancouver art shows: Timerasier, Body Language Exhibition, The Art of Giving, and The Cheaper Show.
The Olympics
In summer 2008, Krug attended the Beijing Summer Olympics and documented the experience with his photography. Two of his photo essays were included in the LA Times: the Streets of Beijing and the Faces of Beijing.
Photographic Style
Krug's photographic style incorporates expired film, personal candids, angular combinations and body shots. He regularly collaborates with fashion designers to create visuals that push the limit of mainstream fashion photography. Besides fashion photography, he shoots cityscapes and people and collaborates with international photographers and artists in the Gastown district of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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