Mike and I are extremely excited to unveil the fourth and final series in The New Kit-Cat Portraits! (As a reminder, the first series can be found here, the second series can be found here, and the third series can be found here.) It has been such an honor to photograph so many wonderful members of the Washington, DC-area historical costuming community. We were able to do 26 total portraits, which is way more than I would have thought possible when we started.
In this installment, we made an extra effort to work with some folks who live farther away but often travel to DC for costuming events. Two people came down from Baltimore, two from PA, and one came up from NC. Plus I photographed Mike to round out the set. We would have loved to include even more people, but running these shoots is a time commitment we could not keep doing indefinitely, so we decided to finish things in November 2019, just about a year after we started the project.
Our studio setup was the same as in the last series. By then we had an established routine that worked smoothly, so there was no need to change anything.
I was happy to get behind the camera to do Mike’s photo, because I need more practice with lighting.
And here are the completed portraits!
And finally, Mike, the portrait painter himself
A huge thanks to Nastassia, Judy, Kat, Katy, and Rebecca for working with us! And thank you to everyone who followed along with this project!
In the Long Run 