Bespoke visuals · the Lowcountry

Bryan Korth

Portraits, occasions, film, and web.

Made for you alone, in the moment. Never off a shelf.

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The LibraryA living library of what I make. Portraits, film, prints, words, and builds, pieces and always growing.
The work, told

The shot is already there.

A backdrop in a stairwell. A frame in the roadside trees. A set in a coming storm. Every frame below was found on a roam, not staged.

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The Wall

Shot in the wild, not raised in the studio.

The whole wall of work. See a look you want? Tap it, and ask me for that one.

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The Roam

A side-scrolling studio, with you as the main character.

A session on the move, on foot or on e-scooters. We pick an area and live in its real, changing light, the kind a studio, or even meeting at one fixed spot, can never give you. A studio is the safe, controlled way. That has never been me.

We might set out for good foliage and pass, on the way, a weathered old storefront where the light and the frame fall just right. So we stop, and make a painting of you using its light, its frame, and its aging texture, all of it playing off your vibe. It is the alley nobody looks twice at that wraps you in a new depth. Busy streets and markets, dark wooded parks, eclectic shops, all of it the set.

I shoot it from the ground, the sides, from below, and from above with a drone, where the scene looks like nothing you would see standing on the street. Video and a hyperlapse of the whole adventure if you want them.

It is alive. The creativity grows with the movement. An adventure to find the most versions of you, in the most light, in the most places. You, the main character.

The Lowcountry

The set is already here.

The Roam runs on Charleston, North Charleston, Summerville, and Ladson. A few of the kinds of places we go, and the light that makes them.

Markets
The Charleston City Market, the Summerville farmers market. Chaotic, textured, alive.
Morning light breaking through the tent gaps.
The courts
Basketball and tennis around Park Circle and the Danny Jones complex. Clean, geometric, streetwear.
Hard noon sun to pop the color and throw fence-shadow across you.
Rooftops and transit
The airport garage roof, the transit hubs. Concrete, glass, leading lines.
Blue hour, with planes lifting off behind you.
Alleys and courtyards
Philadelphia Alley, Washington Square, Short Central. Wrought iron, brick, ivy.
Dappled mid-morning, or golden hour off the warm brick.
Waterfronts
Riverfront Park's grit, the piers and boat landings. Open, airy, dynamic.
Sunrise skipping off the water, or a silhouette against open sky.
The Battery
The seawall walk and White Point Garden. Cannons, old oaks, mansions at your back, the harbor in front.
Golden hour off the water, or storm light rolling in over the harbor.
Skate parks
The concrete bowls around Park Circle. Raw texture, motion, streetwear energy.
Hard side light to catch the grind and throw a long shadow.
Shipyards and industry
The old Navy Yard, the port cranes, the rail and container yards up in North Charleston. Steel, rust, scale.
Flat overcast on the metal, or blue hour as the sodium lamps kick on.
Junk yards and salvage
Auto graveyards and salvage lots. Rust, chrome, stacked color, chaos with a pattern hiding in it.
Harsh noon to blow out the chrome, or golden hour warming the rust.

And a few worth the drive, out past the city.

Cypress Gardens
Blackwater swamp near Goose Creek. Cypress knees, a flat-bottom boat, everything doubled in still black water.
Flat morning light, and you mirrored in the reflection.
Boneyard Beach
Botany Bay on Edisto. Whole dead oaks standing in the surf, salt-bleached to bone.
First light at low tide, the trees black against a pink sky.
Old Sheldon ruins
A roofless brick church from the 1700s. Open columns, live oaks, old graves.
Late sun raking through the columns, moss shadow on the brick.
Angel Oak
A four-hundred-year live oak on Johns Island, limbs the size of whole trees.
Soft overcast so the canopy reads, you small beneath it.
Magnolia Cemetery
On the Cooper River. Ancient oaks, still water, quiet gothic stone.
Golden hour through the moss, hushed and cinematic.

Between the cracks is where the perfect picture grows.

Occasions

Any occasion, captured creatively.

Point me at whatever you want captured, a day, an event, a moment worth marking, and I will make it into something you feel. No formula, no box.

I am also an ordained minister. So if the occasion is a marriage, I can perform the ceremony myself.

A wedding, an engagement, a party, an anniversary, any moment worth keeping. Tell me about yours.

A deposit holds your date. Balance due on delivery, flexible pay through Square.

Wall Art

Take the light home.

Aluminum wall art, made by hand. Tap any piece for sizes.

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Pricing

Plain and simple.

A deposit reserves your date. Balance on delivery, flexible pay through Square.

Film, Ads & Content

Anything that needs to move.

Film and aerial. Brand video, ads, social, and skits. Scored and cut by me.

Lowcountry · the reel

Dolphins from above, the Yorktown at Patriots Point, and the downtown steeples, shot, scored, and cut as one continuous piece.

Through the Oaks · a walk with me

A drone follow through the Spanish moss and out over the marsh, the sound built around the quiet of the walk.

Holy City · Charleston from the air

The Custom House columns and downtown rooftops under a hard sunset, aerials edited to the falling light.

The Ride · red-clay trail, for the joy of it

A cinematic ride through the pines, filmed and cut for the pure fun of moving. Scenery, rhythm, and a little play.

Cold-Blooded · gators from the air

Alligators on the bank and gliding through the green, shot from above over Lowcountry water, cut and scored to the stillness.

Ravenel, night · a chill pass over the bridge

A slow night flight over the Arthur Ravenel bridge, the lit cables and the still water, just the calm of the air up there.

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Brand, Sites & Apps

I don't just shoot it. I build it.

Logos, logotypes, websites, and apps, all made to order. This site is one of mine, and a dozen more under CASHvalue digital designs.

Logos & logotypes
Custom brand marks and wordmarks, made to order. Here is a sheet of mine.
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Soul Tides
A boat-party booking platform with admin and captain logins, built end to end.
soultides.web.app →
Next On Designs
A custom apparel shop with a live 2D and 3D design studio in the browser.
nextondesigns.web.app →
The Bridge
A felt self-assessment instrument, local-first, that carries your progress.
walkthebridge.web.app →
CASH Values
A church and community platform, giving, a partner directory, and live demos.
cashvalues.org →
This site
Bryan Korth, the page you are reading right now.
built like everything else here →

Tell me what you're building.

The Care Plan

Or keep it all running.

Most of what a brand needs is ongoing. I can keep it all running on a monthly plan, so it is not five things you are chasing.

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Bryan Korth
About

I make people and things into bespoke art.

Bespoke means made for you. Not off a shelf, not a preset, not a formula. A piece, and the experience of making it, that exists only because you do, caught in the moment and never repeated.

Under all of it is one thing. I cannot look at a person, or a place, or a passing bit of light, without seeing what it rhymes with. A weathered wall becomes a frame. A stranger’s stance becomes the whole shot. An alley nobody looks at twice wraps you in a depth you did not know was there. That is the center. It fires across everything it touches and will not sit still, and it is why the work comes out made for you and never off a shelf.

Photographer, filmmaker, minister, writer, builder. Not five people. One mind pointed at different material, the same seeing coming out as a portrait, a film, a ceremony, a page, a thing built to order. For over ten years I have found the art in whoever, and whatever, is in front of me.

The Lowcountry, South Carolina. And wherever the light is better.

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From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here. A sort of umbilical cord links the body of the photographed thing to my gaze.

Roland Barthes · Camera Lucida
Words

The mind behind the eye.

I write too. The same eye, pointed inward. Tap any piece to read it in full.

Commission

Point me at what you love.

Sessions, a wedding, a film, a print, a whole brand. Tell me what you want made, and I will tell you how I would make it.

A deposit reserves your date. The balance is due when the work is delivered. Payments run securely through Square, with flexible pay available.

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