Where stillness becomes story.
Timeless imagery. Honest connection. Quiet design.
Based in Brisbane, and available across the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Toowoomba, The Modern Still offers editorial family, maternity, and couples photography.
A studio dedicated to the art of stillness, connection, and form.
Guided by editorial sensibility and shaped through honest direction, each sitting captures connection as it unfolds: unposed, genuine, and quietly refined.
Our work sits between design and emotion, crafted to feel both modern and lasting.
Founded by Kate Karanges, The Modern Still was born from a desire to bridge creative direction and emotional storytelling, to capture people with the same intentionality, restraint, and design sensibility found in editorial work.
Drawing from a background in brand, photography, and visual storytelling, Kate brings an editorial eye to human connection, guiding each session with calm direction and instinct for tone, light, and composition.
Her approach is grounded in presence over perfection, creating portraits that feel both artful and real. Each image is a quiet collaboration between life, light, and emotion, designed to endure as part of a family’s visual legacy.
Kate Karanges
Our Philosophy
We believe connection is art. Honest, enduring, and deeply human.
Every portrait is guided by intention and emotion, composed to honour real stories and the moments that remain.
An Extension of
The Latest
The Modern Still exists as part of The Latest, a creative studio dedicated to brand, design, and storytelling.
Where The Latest partners with bold brands to shape identity and direction, The Modern Still brings that same sense of design and intention to the personal — capturing people, connection, and legacy through an editorial lens.
Together, they form a creative ecosystem grounded in clarity, craft, and emotion, guided by the belief that beautiful things endure.