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Kai Render.

10 projects across three genres. Personal series and editorial stories sit beside commissioned campaigns — filter to narrow it down, or read it as one body of work.

10 projects
Editorial Series 01 cover frame
01

Editorial

Editorial Series 01

A sixteen-page fashion story shot across two nights in a disused transit hall, lit almost entirely with practicals.

Lumen Coffee Co. product photography
02

Commercial

Lumen Coffee Co.

Launch campaign photography for a specialty roaster moving from a single café into national wholesale.

Urban Portraits, street-cast sitter
03

Portrait

Urban Portraits

An open-ended series of street-cast portraits, one roll per person, no second sitting.

Wanderlust campaign frames
04

Commercial

Wanderlust

Three countries, eleven days, one campaign about actually switching off.

Salt & Static campaign frame
05

Commercial

Salt & Static

A swimwear campaign shot over four tidal windows on an Atlantic beach, entirely in available light.

Atlas annual report photography
06

Commercial

Atlas

Annual-report and brand photography for a bank that wanted to look permanent, not friendly.

After Hours restaurant frame
07

Editorial

After Hours

A restaurant story shot after service, when the room is still warm and nothing is arranged.

Foundry Press author portrait
08

Portrait

Foundry Press

A portrait system for a publisher putting thirty authors a year on its jackets.

Concrete Bloom estate frame
09

Editorial

Concrete Bloom

Documenting a brutalist housing estate through the plants its residents put on it.

North Shore maker portrait
10

Portrait

North Shore Makers

Eleven independent makers, eleven studios, one week — every portrait under the same single light.