The rescue gets a free session
Bring them to the studio at College & Spadina, or we pack the lights up and come to you. Edited galleries land the next day at noon.
Rescues across Canada & the United States
Every rescue deserves
a great first impression.
Most shelter pets are judged on a photo taken through kennel bars in bad light on a stressful day. We give them a real portrait — one that shows who they actually are. Free to the rescue, always. And every dollar donated goes straight to vet bills for animals in rescue across North America.
For brands & businesses
Put your name on
the reason they got adopted.
Every session here is paid for by a sponsor — that's the whole model, and it's the only reason we can say free to the rescue and mean it. Sponsorship funds a day of portraits and hands your marketing team a library of professional animal photography it can actually use. Cause marketing that comes with the assets attached.
Become a sponsorHow it works
Everybody wins. Especially the dog.
Three people in this story. Only one of them pays, and it's never the rescue.
A sponsor picks up the bill
A pet brand or a local business funds it, and gets real photography of real animals they helped — with their name on every gallery it makes.
The dog gets a proper portrait
A calm room, a pocket full of treats, and all the time they need. Then a photo that makes somebody stop scrolling. That's the entire point.
02 / The work
Look at that face.
Every one of these is a real dog on a real session day. Hover any of them.
Support the work
Donations go straight to vet bills.
Not overheads, not equipment — veterinary care for animals in rescue across Canada and the United States. Every contribution is listed publicly on our supporters wall, and rescues can apply directly for help with a bill.
For shelters & rescues
Bring Pet Rescue Portraits
to your rescue.
We're booking sessions across Canada and the United States. Tell us about your organisation and we'll get in touch as sponsorship opens up in your region.
See what's includedApplying doesn't guarantee a session — we match rescues to sponsors region by region, and we'll always tell you honestly where you stand.
Photographers & volunteers
We can only be in
one city at a time.
If you can light a subject and stay calm around a nervous animal, there's a rescue near you that needs exactly that. Handlers, assistants and editors too — a session runs on more than the person behind the lens.
Apply to join us03 / About
The photographer
behind it.
I'm Kevin Sarasom. I've spent twenty years as a cinematographer and photographer, most of it working commercially for fashion and lifestyle brands — and the last ten pointing that same lighting, direction and editorial eye at dogs, through my studio Off Leash Studio.
I've photographed more than 15,000 dogs for private clients across Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and London, and run brand activations for Mercedes-Benz, Saks Fifth Avenue and The Body Shop. My specialty is reading a dog in minutes — what motivates them, what overwhelms them, and how to get the exact expression you'd recognise at home.
Pet Rescue Portraits is where that goes to work for the animals nobody is commissioning portraits of. Off Leash Studio tours North America — Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin — and wherever the studio lands, rescues in that city get sessions free.
If you run a rescue, or you run a brand that would rather fund something real than buy another stock photo — let's talk.
Kevin Sarasom
Founder · Pet Rescue Portraits & Off Leash Studio