Hi, I am Kevin Starnes.
It's been a strange path to photography. I spent years as a professional musician in the Detroit area, performing and teaching private voice lessons full time, until COVID shut down the country and effectively killed the live music industry overnight. I had to reinvent myself, and I did it on a Twitch stream.
Live streaming forced me to learn a dozen new skills fast, including how to actually use a mirrorless camera. Marketing the stream meant learning photography just to make decent thumbnails, and somewhere in there, it stopped being a means to an end. I started shooting everything I could get in front of a lens.
How that matters to you: twenty years on stage means I know exactly what it feels like to freeze up in front of a camera, because it's the same panic as walking into an audition. I've spent just as long teaching people how to get past it. So when you show up for a session, I'm not going to tell you to "just be natural" and hope for the best. I'll tell you where to stand, what to do with your hands, and when to relax your shoulders, the same way I'd coach a student before a callback.
I'm based in Warren and shoot throughout metro Detroit, including Troy, Royal Oak, and Sterling Heights. If you've ever dreaded getting your picture taken, that's exactly who this is for.
