Travis Rigby
Travis has been an avid photographer for the past fifteen years and his love for capturing "The Moment" began in Providenciales of the Turks and Caicos Islands, his place of birth.
The path to photography began by borrowing his mother's Canon EOS ELAN II 35mm SLR camera and he used it whenever a chance arose. A fully featured camera at such an early age and with so much curiosity, he made the best of his limited camera use time and eventually he received a book on photography for his birthday, a third edition of The Photographer's Handbook by John Hedgecoe. This standard reference manual made a huge impact on his knowledge of photography, specifically analog photography.
In 2002 he migrated to Canada with his family and further developed his skills in analog photography at Westdale Secondary School taught by Ward Shipman. There he excelled in the field, moving on to display photographic art once a month at the Loose Canon Gallery as a part of the Hamilton, ON Supercrawl on James street north. Rigby has also documented some of the school's athletic and social events with side work involving portrait shots for cast members involved in theatrical performance.
During the final years of high school he enrolled in a co-operative education placement at Split Image Photography studio working with Milton Lowe, a well known former analog and darkroom operating photographer in the greater Toronto area. Being an analog photographer, Lowe produced his own images in the dark room and cropping/framing room, somewhere that Travis felt right at home with.
Another big influence for Travis was being hired by Beaches Resorts Turks & Caicos as a photographer. In an effort to become a dive photographer for the resort, Rigby also obtained his open water dive license licensed by Beaches dive instructors. Later followed by completing the Digital Underwater Photographer course.
An ideal position to develop the social aspect of being a photographer helped Rigby engage with guests; enlightening the mood to make everyone feel comfortable in front of the camera.
Today, Rigby mainly focuses on events, personal head-shots and corporate photography.
The path to photography began by borrowing his mother's Canon EOS ELAN II 35mm SLR camera and he used it whenever a chance arose. A fully featured camera at such an early age and with so much curiosity, he made the best of his limited camera use time and eventually he received a book on photography for his birthday, a third edition of The Photographer's Handbook by John Hedgecoe. This standard reference manual made a huge impact on his knowledge of photography, specifically analog photography.
In 2002 he migrated to Canada with his family and further developed his skills in analog photography at Westdale Secondary School taught by Ward Shipman. There he excelled in the field, moving on to display photographic art once a month at the Loose Canon Gallery as a part of the Hamilton, ON Supercrawl on James street north. Rigby has also documented some of the school's athletic and social events with side work involving portrait shots for cast members involved in theatrical performance.
During the final years of high school he enrolled in a co-operative education placement at Split Image Photography studio working with Milton Lowe, a well known former analog and darkroom operating photographer in the greater Toronto area. Being an analog photographer, Lowe produced his own images in the dark room and cropping/framing room, somewhere that Travis felt right at home with.
Another big influence for Travis was being hired by Beaches Resorts Turks & Caicos as a photographer. In an effort to become a dive photographer for the resort, Rigby also obtained his open water dive license licensed by Beaches dive instructors. Later followed by completing the Digital Underwater Photographer course.
An ideal position to develop the social aspect of being a photographer helped Rigby engage with guests; enlightening the mood to make everyone feel comfortable in front of the camera.
Today, Rigby mainly focuses on events, personal head-shots and corporate photography.
