Visual arts have run in the Shaw family for almost 2 centuries (that I know of). During the mid 1800’s, my great-great-grandfather – H.R. Shaw – was an artist of renown painting portraits of many political figures of the time with some commissioned for the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada.
During the early 1900’s my 
grandfather was the Kodak dealer in the summer resort town of Rosseau, Ontario – part of the lake cabin vacation area north of Toronto, the summer playground of many from Hollywood or the old families of the north-east.
As a youngster, I remember spending numerous weekends in the family car driving around with my father as he pursued a black & white assignment of photographing garbage cans in the back alleys of Vancouver.
From these earlier influences, Ken’s passion for photography developed through high school as he developed his skills as photographer for the school’s year book and many darkened hours in the darkroom. After purchasing his first Nikon SLR in the 70’s he pursued photography as a hobby which later expanded after his career education in Television Broadcast Communications with a supplemental business doing weddings, portraits and product photography. Ken augmented his visual still arts with time spent in the areas of videography and cinematography including cameraman training under the eye of Victor Kemper, ASC.
Ken’s broadcast career encompassing positions as cameraman, technical director, technical producer, product manager, and supervising manager & international trainer at the International Broadcast Center for the 1988 Winter Olympics. Ken added many skills learned along the way from his proficient understanding of image editing, computer desktop publishing, illustration and marketing to complement his photographic skills.
After a long hiatus Ken began pursuing his passion for photography again in 2011, adding his first DSLR in late that year.