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 an author, having co-written BitTorrent for Dummies with Susannah Gardner, and a technologist, being the president of Bryght (a Drupal development company) and founder of early web community spark-online.com. Krug is the organizer and founder of PhotoCamp, a photography unconference with BarCamp origins, and has organized 4 of them including Northern Voice 2006, BarCamp Shanghai, Barcamp Vancouver, and Northern Voice 2007. Krug is a well known contributor to the Flickr photo sharing community website. 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. As a speaker, he has been invited to a number of prominent media and technology events, such as SXSW.[1] Kris was featured in an article on the spread of Creative Commons material and Flickr.[2] Kris' photography was brought to prominence by a bizarre situation where another user attributed his work as theirs. The subsequent blog posting was picked up by Digg (resulting in over 1700 diggs). After this incident, he has subsequently been invited to speak on the issue of copyright at events like Copycamp. Another event that caught the attention of the Blogosphere was Kris posing naked on the Great Wall of China during a technology event.[3]. Krug is the co-founder of VanDigiCam, an association of photographers in Vancouver, BC, with over 300 current members.
Photographic Works
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 urban landscapes and people and collaborates with international photographers and artists in the Gastown district of Vancouver.
 From The "Cold Wet Saturday" shoot. |
 From a shoot for Ion Magazine. |
 In Gastown, Vancouver B.C. |
 One of Krug's intimate portraits. |
 Pete Doherty of BabyShambles. |
 From a "Made In Vancouver" shoot. |
 A local model. |
 A commissioned shoot by a local actor. |
References
External links
- KrisKrug.com personal website
- Photos by kk+ at Flickr.com (also photos of kk+ under the MøtleyKrüg tag)
- Spark Online
- Static Photography
- Interview with Mena Trott in Digital Web Magazine.
- Kris Krug on the Great Wall of China
