STOKEshow

STOKEshow photographer, Rose Athena, came to Vancouver and asked Kyle McCachen to find a model. Kinga was acting in a horror film and Kyle met her on set. "I was the DOP, and lighting Kinga was extremely difficult. I was trying to make the film scary but I kept thinking about how Kinga was just so pretty." Thankfully, Rose came into the picture and arranged a STOKEshow shoot for Kinga. During the shoot they all got along so well that now Kinga has been introduced as one of the STOKEshow primary artists.

Sarabeth's connection to STOKEshow is through Grayson Grant. They had both done a lot of acting work in Vancouver. One night on the Granville strip, Sara bumped into Grayson, who was meeting up with Kyle McCachen. Kyle got Sara's number and had to call her five times before she answered. Kyle was persistent and eventually Sara agreed to get involved with STOKEshow.

Everything started with Erika Montgomery. Kyle McCachen spotted her at the Keg and Matt Braun told him to go give her a STOKEshow card. "I saw her and told her that I was a producer doing a photoshoot." Kyle says. "At the time, that was a basically a lie." Funny how things come together. Now Erika is doing shoots for many different photographers. And included in this album is a incendiary photo of her against a brick wall shot by veteran photographer, Aaron Keeling.

Jana Bananna "When Jana arrived on the first STOKEshow set I was really nervous. We had four photographers and five models. Even though I organized the shoot, I had no idea what I was doing. But Jana was amazing. Her natural presence really came through without any direction from me. She was so confident and soon everything became really fun. All the other girls were looking at Jana."