Commercial: Mim Concept, Mid-Century Modern Furniture (Fall Collection)

On top of photographing a business owner’s beautiful work, I love getting to know the story behind their work. Anh, the founder of Mim Concept (@mimconcept), left her job as an architect to start her own company designing a set of modern mid century-inspired furniture.

Here’s one of those pieces we photographed from her newest collection, the Xavier O’Noir. This black leather sofa has an added feature that many of us could use. Take a look below to see what it is and get a peek into some of the other pieces of the new collection.

Xavier O'Noir: Italian Leather Sofa with USB Ports

Jerry & Andy: Dining Set 3

Mim Concept’s Amélie Lounge Chair with Ottoman in Linen

Xavier Shadow: Tweed Fabric Sofa with USB Ports

Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund

Over the past month, I’ve been working as a recipient of the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund  on this project to help educate and inspire the photography community.

My commissioned project

I’ve been sharing a collection of photos to Lightroom’s Discover feature where you can see a step-by-step of how I edit photos.

All you need is to sign up for a free Adobe account and download the free Adobe Lightroom app.

Who can apply?

If you’re a creative especially, a creator in an underrepresented group, this is an amazing opportunity to showcase your perspective and work with Adobe. If you meet the requirements (there are just 3), then go apply!

Don’t forget to apply for the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund! It’s easy to apply and if you don’t get selected this upcoming round, your application will automatically roll over to the next. So the earlier you apply, the more rounds you have to be selected

The next deadline is Sept 7, but apply now.

Many thanks to Katrin Eismann, the Adobe Lightroom and the Community Fund team for giving me this amazing opportunity.

Lifestyle Influencer Campaign: The Kwendy Home x Herbal Essences

Project

Wendy of The Kwendy Home partnered with Herbal Essences to launch their new Aloe line of haircare products. This campaign needed lifestyle photos of Wendy in her plant-filled home along with the Herbal Essences products.

Result

Commercial: Lagostina x The Kwendy Home

Wendy of The Kwendy Home partnered with Lagostina to launch their new risotto pot, La Risottiera and asked me to photograph this series for it.

I’ve been fortunate to work together with Wendy on multiple influencer marketing projects and I can attest to how hard she works on each one. As the photographer for these marketing campaigns, it takes time to prepare, source props, style the product before actually shooting.

All the work behind the scenes is worth it though. The results of this shoot came out beautifully and most importantly, the client was happy with the images.

Lifestyle Product: La Ceiba Botanical Skincare

Over the past 3 years of running my photography business, I’ve worked with a lot of other business owners in Toronto. I had the opportunity to shoot some lifestyle product photography for La Ceiba Botanical Skincare. This company is a one-woman show. She develops the products, packages them and markets them on her own.

The first step in working together is the pre-production stage, aka planning. I make sure we create a shoot brief, which includes the concept, a shot list, prop list and mood board. This ensures that we have a game plan to maximize our time and to get all the shots needed.

Here are some of my favourite images from our shoot: