ABOUT

I am a Los Angeles based portrait, fashion, music, and product photographer who experiments with mixed media and collage. After completing my BFA in Photography at Toronto's Ryerson University in Spring 2017, I moved to Boston, MA to be in the budding music industry of young musicians and to explore my own photographic interests in the real world. In August of 2018, I traveled to the West Coast where I soon discovered a renewed vision and love of fashion and product photography that has lead to freelance opportunities with Herb.co, Bearfruit Jewelry, Kirsten's Kitchen, Double Blind Magazine, Beauty Architects and more. In between my commercial and freelance work, I manage personal projects and build my passion by collaborating with local artists, musicians, models, actors, stylists, hair and makeup artists and more. Photography opportunities within fashion, music, lifestyle, portraiture, and quality products are at the forefront of my focus—all of which have taught me countless, interchangeable techniques and styles.

instagram: @kayablaze

CV

Education Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, 2017

Publications

2019 DOUBLE BLIND MAGAZINE Issue #2, Los Angeles, CA - Cover Story Photographer

2018 INDEX MAG Spring Issue ‘18, Emerson College, Boston, MA - Featured Artist

2017 INDEX MAG Fall Issue ’17, Emerson College, Boston, MA - Cover Artist

2017 Function Magazine Issue 18, Toronto, ON - Artistic Director

2017 StyleCircle Issue 2, Toronto, ON - Featured Artwork

2016 Function Magazine Issue 17, Toronto, ON - Featured Artist

Solo Exhibitions

2017 (echoes) within & without, Ryerson University School of Image Arts Gallery 310, Toronto, ON

Group Exhibitions

2017 Maximum Exposure, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

2017 Persistence: A Pop-Up Show, Ryerson University, Toronto ON

2017 Women In Art, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

2016 Bread and Butter, Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone, Toronto, ON

2016 Maximum Exposure, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

2016 Humanitas, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2015 First Edition Photobook Show, Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone, Toronto, ON

2013 Full Frame, Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone, Toronto, ON

Awards / Collections

2016 Dear Dad, Ryerson University Library and Archives' First Edition Book Award