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Kevin Fung is a Toronto based visual story teller specializing in Beautiful, Organic, Fun images with a photojournalistic approach.

My name is Kevin Fung and I am visual storyteller based in Toronto, Canada.

About five years ago, while I was working as an official shutterbug for the provincial government, I started photographing weddings on the weekends. While my day job had me covering election campaigns and even following foreign dignitaries around — including the emperor of Japan and the Queen of England (for real!) — it was my weekend work that I grew more and more passionate about. Today, weddings are my full-time job.

Most brides and grooms know there's a lot of preparation that goes into planning a wedding. For me, documenting your marriage doesn’t just start on your wedding day. I start by forging a relationship with my couples early on so by the time your big day comes along, I am no longer a stranger but a friend — someone you trust implicitly, who will put you at ease so you’re looking relaxed, comfortable and radiant.

I want my couples to know that when you work with me, the experience and the quality of the images are never mutually exclusive. When we meet, a connection needs to be established. Once you book me as your photographer, I become emotionally invested in you — it is this investment that gives me the ability to create a range of images — fun, beautiful, organic — that capture the essence of your relationship.

If this sounds like the experience you’re looking for, please feel free to contact me. I’d love to meet up for coffee!

Category Archives: I Will

Engagement shoot posts

Jasmine, Adhir and the swarm of extras

Thu. April 19, 2012 Posted in engagement, I Will

Happy Thursday everyone. This week is just going by soooo fast! I wanted to share with you another engagement shoot with one of my lovely couples that I had the pleasure of shooting this past weekend. We sure lucked out weather wise. Unlike the windy and slightly cold weather we had the day before when shooting Jessica and Vince’s session, the Sunday was mild and warm, I was actually really warm because I thought I learned from the previous day so I bundled up and I told Jasmine and Adhir to do the same. They must have thought that I was crazy when I gave them that piece of advice.

Regardless of what the weather had in store for us, we had a great time creating these casual images at the Don Valley Brickworks, I know, they changed the name to Evergreen Brickworks now but the rebel in me refuses to heel and call it by it’s new name. Just like how the multi purpose stadium with opening dome situated in downtown Toronto will always be called the SkyDome to me, not the Rogers Centre (I know…I am a rebel). Opps..there I go off topic again..sorry.

What I wanted to say was that Jasmine and Adhir were a pleasure to shoot, Jasmine could not stop laughing, for every “serious” type image we have of her, there are bound to be a couple of images that followed where she was smiling or laughing. At one point I was creating a series of images for them and a swarm of extras showed up demanding some face time!! It’s better that you see it so I refer to the following animated GIF (it’s a big file so please let it load).

In case you guys missed it and think that I am a few sandwiches short of a picnic…here is a close up of Jasmine and Adhir and those “buggers” (hehe, i don’t get too many opportunities to use puns). Those things kept up with them throughout the whole series…talk about agressive.

Jasmine, Adhir, I know that we all had our share of bugs that evening, but you guys were amazing to have gone through this all smiles. Here are the rest of my favorites from the session.

…..is this thing on?

Tue. April 17, 2012 Posted in engagement

allo…testing…yut…yee…sam…Just testing this thing out since it’s been a while since I blogged. So much has gone on since my last post. So much that I have not been able to put it together in proper words, but I do have some images. But, before I get into that, I wanted to share an amazing session I had with one of my couples this year.

Enter Jessica and Vince who were refered to me by “friends friends friends”, so Jess put on my contact form. It’s always nice be refered by past couples and/or members of their wedding parties. Thanks Winnie!!

Leading up to the shoot, I have to say that the weather got me down. It did not look good but we were so happy that the rain held off. It was however, windy and a little chilly. No matter though, Jessica and Vince, fresh off a plane brought it which is all I really ask of my couples.

Although I typically shy away from shooting at Toronto’s Distillery District, we shot here because this venue was where Vince proposed to Jessica, so the place had significance to them which is always a nice touch.

Vince would point out possible proposal locations he had planned when they were on their date. One such location he recounted was near some rocks and some beautiful lights. With his hand clutching tightly to the ring box, he asked Jessica. “Do you think this is romantic?” expecting her to concur, to which she replied….”No! There’s this weird…” and before she could finish, he released his hold of the ring which fell back into the depths of his pocket, grabbed her hand and moved onto another spot. It was all super cute and fun when he told me that story.

Throughout the session, I experienced their swagger (which shall not be shared), their super fun side and their intimate side which made the session so much fun and easy to shoot.

Here are a few of my favorites of the day.

This is the location in which Vince proposed to Jess. I think that this has got to me my favorite of the day.This last shot is not something that I would post. I would include it in the disc but when I see this image, the word that comes to mind is BOOYASHAKA!!! Although I have no clue what the word even means (yea…I am that cool!) I felt it was appropriate as don’t forsee another opportunity to use that word so I am taking advantage of this.

I cannot tell you how much fun I had shooting them, they were just so dynamic and fun, I could not have asked for a better session to kick off the season. Thank you so much guys and I can’t wait to document your wedding next month!!!

Tina and Mike are Engaged!!!

Tue. October 18, 2011 Posted in engagement, I Will

it’s soooo cooooold!!!! I am Canadian but for some reason I did not expect this so soon. Thankfully, I had Tina and Mike’s images to create which reminded me how warm they are as a couple as well as during their engagement session. Here are some of my favorites. =)