I was hired by the fashion designer of Lykke Wullf to do hair and makeup for her spring lookbook in Los Angeles. The clothes are stunning (a huge understatement), and I couldn't be happier with how this 70’s campaign turned out. It was shot by the amazing Hana Haley. 

CLIENT: LYKKE WULLF
HAIR/MAKEUP: KELLY DICKERSON
PHOTOGRAPHY: HANA HALEY
STYLING/DESIGNS: JEMMA SWATEK

 

IPNC is the International Pinot Noir Celebration, top pick for USA Today’s best wine festival. They hired me to photograph the festival, which brings the top winemakers in the world to Oregon. The festival features an epic salmon bake, 70+ global featured wineries, cuisine from 60 different chefs. An absolute feat to pull off for the IPNC staff and had so much fun working on this project.

I was hired to shoot Vogue & the CFDA's annual Fashion's Night Out event to raise money and awareness for independent designers. My photos from the event ran in Portland Monthly and across various Vogue media. 

CLIENT Vogue/CFDA and Travel Portland
PHOTOS Kelly Dickerson

The Bindery is an event space in Oregon wine country, a great backdrop for editorial shoots, but also weddings and events. This was a collaboration to showcase a&bé’s sustainable wedding attire available at their Portland location, with some added b-roll for The Bindery’s social media. A&bé is a national bridal shop with coverage on shows like Love is Blind, etc.

VENUE: The Bindery

WARDROBE: a&bé Bridal
VIDEO: Kelly Dickerson
HAIR AND MAKEUP: Kelly Dickerson
FLORALS: Noble Floral Co @noblefloralco

I was hired to shoot photos for Adobe's Creative Jam in Portland, Oregon. 

The concept the teams worked on was sustainability, and the apps they produced with the new XD were so cool. 

It was a super-fun night filled with donuts, ideas, talks and collaboration.

My photos from the event were featured on the Adobe blog, across Adobe social media, as well as on the local nightly news. 

CLIENT Adobe
PHOTOGRAPHER Kelly Dickerson

The Atticus Hotel is a woman-owned business and is now one of the best-respected boutique hotels in the country: USA Today's #1 wine country hotel, #3 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards winner, among other accolades. They hired me to shoot photo and video of their space in McMinnville, Oregon. Absolutely a dream to work with this team.

The shoot resulted in promotional photos and a homepage video, plus several 15-second video edits for their social media.

CLIENT: Atticus Hotel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kelly Dickerson
VIDEO: Kelly Dickerson

Gorjue was created by a woman to blend her love of beauty and food. The lipsticks have little food items incorporated into the designs, with culinary names. It’s such a fun and off-the-wall concept that I couldn’t wait to work with them!

The product is amazing (even the packaging in shipping) and the company is ethically made. I’ve used the lipsticks on many clients, including for the speakers at TedxPortland.

I planned two shoots—one in Portland and one in Austin—where I did photography, video and makeup to showcase the brand for website and social sharing. I kept to the food theme using a diner and a food cart pod as shoot locations.

CLIENT: Gorjue NYC
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kelly Dickerson
VIDEO: Kelly Dickerson
MODELING: Alexa Saintvon, Kayla Renee, T’Neel Mohan

Monika Reed of Favor Jewelry hired me to do hair and makeup for her winter lookbook.

The concept for the hair and makeup was fresh, festive, and non-cheesy. I like that.

CLIENT: Favor Jewelry
MAKEUP & HAIR: Kelly Dickerson
PHOTOGRAPHY: Christy Cassano-Meyer
STYLING & DESIGNS: Monika Reed

A favorite recurring client is TedxPortland. I am regularly hired to do the hair and makeup for the promotional billboards and digital campaigns, as well as for the speakers at the events themselves. I’ve done hair and makeup for more than 40 speakers to date. The campaigns are featured on the Tedx Portland website, social media, and on billboards and buses across the city. They are also shared across the speakers’ own social media and websites.

CLIENT / Tedx Portland

HAIR AND MAKEUP / Kelly Dickerson

PHOTOGRAPHY / Jacob Hinmon and Corey Drayton @ Four + One Productions, various others

AGENCY / Enjoy the Weather

Flag and Wire coffee is a PNW favorite, especially out in Oregon wine country. Roasted in McMinnville, home of the Spruce Goose, the small but efficient team works insanely hard and their attention to detail is next-level.

I focused my photography and videography on Flag & Wire, but we also cross-promoted with one of their vendors, The Atticus Hotel, who I’ve worked with previously.

Cross-promoting independent businesses only strengthens the local economy and community. This seemed like the perfect pairing :)

CLIENT: Flag & Wire
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kelly Dickerson
VIDEO: Kelly Dickerson

The Luxury Exchange is a recurring client and I do lots of branded content for them. We’ve ventured into collaborations with other local Portland vendors over our time working together and had a lot of fun with our editorials, including being published nationally.

We shoot a lot of themed work and product photography to support their sustainable fashion and accessories. They’re a luxury re-saler with authenticated originals with an HQ in Portland but sell worldwide on their website.

I founded and ran an independent digital and print magazine in 2012 about personal style. Over the years we reached an online readership of 400,000 reads per month and grew a worldwide network of creative contributors until 2017!

On a daily basis, I collaborated with friends new and old all over the world to create original content, editorials, stories and ongoing projects. I acted as the creative director, handling everything from designing the magazine to curating editorial shoots by theme from contributing artists/writers, photographing editorials, to doing hair, makeup and styling. I also marketed the magazine, including getting it into print and for sale at Skylight Books in Los Angeles and Tender Loving Empire in Portland.

We ended up being one of the first international platforms for writers, artists and other creatives along their inspiring and huge careers. It’s exciting to see where their talent has taken them over the years!

CLIENT Liner Magazine
CREATIVE DIRECTION Kelly Dickerson

Jessica Caldwell of Machine Apparel hired me to shoot and do makeup for her winter and spring lookbooks. 

Together we headed out to downtown Portland the Oneonta Gorge in Oregon.

CLIENT: Machine Apparel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kelly Dickerson
MAKEUP: Kelly Dickerson
HAIR: Kim Burrell, Kelly Dickerson
MODELING: Kayla Tatum, Emma Herdener
STYLING & DESIGNS: Jessica Caldwell
ASSISTANCE: Eric Thompson

Portland Center Stage was gearing up for its run of Great Expectations, and they hired me to do makeup for the publicity photos. 

It was so cool to help bring these characters to life and use makeup to tell their stories. From cold but beautiful Estella to ghostly Miss Havisham, I was encouraged to be creative with my techniques and color palette. 

The photos were featured on promotional billboards, print and transportation ads across the city, as well as on the playbill.

CLIENT Portland Center Stage
MAKEUP Kelly Dickerson
PHOTOGRAPHY Kate Szrom

I attended the 2013 XOXO Festival with a press badge this time. I was hired by The Guardian after my 2012 series on the festival to shoot the event for a story on the changing direction of the tech world for their new Sunday magazine The Observer. 

CLIENT The Guardian
PHOTOS Kelly Dickerson

Ian is a composer for film, commercials and multi-media. He invited me to his house/studio in LA for headshots leading up to his score in a film at SXSW, which was beautiful. Ian didn't want traditional head shots, so we ventured into his neighborhood and used the surroundings as inspiration. He trusted me to shoot entirely on film, which is always a delight.

Heritage School of Interior Design is an ongoing client with schools in Portland, Seattle, SLC, Denver, Dallas, virtually and soon LA. I’ve worked with various locations of HSID, and the projects are so inspiring.

Since beginning, I’ve managed marketing campaigns that include photography and video, social media pushes, boosting analytics and executing brand strategy, among other things. In the first 3 months I created many branded videos and organized/shot editorials featured in their magazine, Heritage Design.

I continue work with them and love seeing the students thrive as they pursue their dreams in interior design.

I've done a few projects with Amanda and I can safely say she's one of the sweetest, most talented people I've had the pleasure of shooting! I wanted to shoot her head shots on film to create an ethereal effect.

Not only is she a model, but she's also an artist, amazing singer with Bjorn and the Sun, and photographer. 

I did her makeup and hair for this look, and then we went out and I shot her around Los Feliz in LA. We focused on glowing, dewy skin and a fresh-faced look.

We didn’t do stuffy headshots for her agent, but instead delivered ones that matched her personality: quirky, down-to-earth and independent. 

Once a year in Portland, Oregon, Andy Baio and Andy McMillan host the festival that brings in creatives, out-of-the-box thinkers, tech innovators, and independent spirits of all kinds for 3 days of food, music, talks by some of the most inspiring and creative people, games, Kickstarter launches and random meet-ups. You do not get the usual cheesy or jargon-filled talks of most conferences, but a truly fresh perspective on being creative and independent in your work and life. 

You can see one of my photos in this great piece on XOXO by Wired.

CLIENT XOXO Festival
PHOTOS Kelly Dickerson

"With an artful eye, Kelly's photographs captured moments of intimacy and human emotion that were too easily missed in the moment. Shot entirely on film, her style matched the vibrant and independent feeling of our festival. Her photos became the cornerstone of our marketing effort, used across social media and our homepage." -Andy Baio

Simple was re-vamping its mission statement and internal purpose campaign and hired me to shoot the photos for it. I ended up photographing real customers all over Portland, as well as the employees at work. 

The final piece that the team unveiled was so beautiful. The words were so moving, and it was really cool seeing how the photos I took complemented those words. Working with Val, Nicolas and the Simple marketing squad was a real treat. The whole shoot was really inspiring to me because there was freedom to find my own meaning and subjects in their message. Plus, they trusted me to shoot the whole thing on film, which is always a bonus.

Update: Sadly Simple has ended, but these photos are more special to me because of it :) They revolutionized the independent banking game during their run.

Sofia hired me to shoot some press photos of her. She runs Drum & Lace, where she creates music for the fashion and design industries. She is amazing at what she does. Her work is on Style.com a lot and if you saw Diane Von Furstenberg's campaign video, Drum & Lace made the music for it! She is super talented and just very strong and graceful, as evidenced in our photos together. She is a true individual, and it was so fun to shoot someone so unique!

Sofia wanted some photos to use for her social media and website, and for press use when she gets written up. She asked for something un-staged and outside the studio, so I suggested we stroll around Los Feliz and shoot in the nooks and crannies of LA on film.

I headed out to the beautiful Oregon Coast to shoot some behind-the-scenes of a Kinfolk Magazine short film shoot. It was a crazy and fun weekend, from people diving fully-clothed into a freezing lake to chasing the waves on the beach with some of the crew. One of the photos accompanies a post on Steven Alan's blog about Nate. The magazine is about getting together with people and sharing experiences of all kinds, mostly involving food.

Tuesdays on Tillamook was a weekly gathering of creatives of all walks in Portland on N Tillamook St. As an ever-rotating team, we shot themed editorials as a collective, each taking on a crew role. 

I was key hair and makeup artist, as well as stylist, for many of the shoots. I also took on the lead photographer role when time allowed.

CLIENT: Tuesdays on Tillamook
HAIR & MAKEUP: Kelly Dickerson
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kelly Dickerson, Jacob Hinmon, Shawna Pair, Dustin Erhardt
STYLING: Kelly Dickerson, Shawna Pair and Sonja Ellicott