meet Kevin Haislip...

Since 1980 when I opened my studio, I've worked with many truly wonderful people and shot for many great clients. Anyone who has spent any amount of time working as a professional quickly realizes a good photographer has to be quick on his feet. If there is one thing photography and design teaches us is to look at things from all angles, and to make the photograph communicate. So whether I have a camera in my hand, a computer mouse, or a problem, I walk around it and study it. I look at a lot of angles and possibilities and begin to work out those possibilities. I don't settle. I strive after excellence and integrity in all that I do, always working to deliver more than is expected. My pictures tell stories.

My career has been as an advertising, corporate and editorial photographer. I was the principle advertising and marketing photographer at the Oregonian, the NW's largest daily newspaper from 1985 to 2005 shooting advertising inserts such as the Christmas Wishbooks, and Inside Tips and many other advertising and fashion supplements. I was a regular contributor to Parade Magazine in New York shooting for different stories, and at FIRST and Women's World Magazine. I also often shot high profile executives for Robb Report and many other magazines and corporations. For more than 10 years, I shot for JC Penney NW region for their fashion ads, and produced major annual presentations for their Golden Rule Awards.

My client list has included IBM, Ford Motor Company, Capital One Bank, CitiBank, AETNA, HP, Texaco, UPS, Federal Express and Frito-Lay.

I have published 7 books, 4 of them photography books: the Rick Strachan Guitar Collection book is a high end hard cover book with a beautiful dust jacket. It went into its second printing in 2014. In the last few years, I have also published 2 photography books on Texas towns: 'Picture Perfect Waxahachie' and 'Grapevine, Aged to Perfection,' also hard cover books with dust jackets.

I continually study biographies, history and great art. With these examples before me, I am looking for the more classical approaches to creativity and design.

But there's been more to my life than a career in photography and design - a lot more. I've adopted thirteen kids. If you think that's a walk in the park, think again. The process has taken me to dismal government offices in Bolivia where uncaring officials have done their best to sabotage my efforts. But it's also taken me to lunch in the home of the President of El Salvador where First Lady Margetta Christiani gave her personal approval to a most difficult adoption.

Alex Strauch was my pastor in college. I learned two valuable lessons from him which I have carried with me my entire life. First was to fully engage passion, and second was to always seek truth in my life. I was to find that neither was particularly easy to take hold of. It is easy to be passionate for a career, or an interest. But Alex defined passion as something you would lay your life down for, something so dear, so desired that you would sell all you had to acquire it.

Name: Kevin Haislip

Personal: married to my wife of 40 years, and 15 children (really!! 2 born to us, 13 adopted)

Mixed Emotions: moved to Texas after living on the Columbia River in Oregon. What would you do?

Cars: have owned 5 Jeeps, a bunch of vans, and an AMC Pacer.