It has been our privilege to play host to a number of fun, interesting and sometimes unusual events over the years at the Vancouver Police Museum. Sometimes we host press conferences, we often rent our space out for filming and photo shoots, we have birthday parties booked almost every weekend, and once we hosted a baby shower!
Recently, I was contacted by Shimona Henry who totally name-dropped when asking if she might be able to use our space for an unusual sort of photo shoot.
Name-drop you say? Shimona’s dad is our good friend Al Arsenault, a retired Vancouver police officer and a founding member of the award-winning Odd Squad productions, of whom I am a BIG fan!
Shimona, meanwhile, is the sole proprietor of ‘Pin-up Perfection Photography‘; a photography business based out of White Rock, BC. Shimona describes herself as a “Special Education Teacher’s Assistant by day, glamour and gore girl by night!”
How intriguing? How exciting? How could I say no? Shimona, five models, and a make-up artist showed up at the museum this past Sunday for a ‘Zombie-Pin-Up-Girl’ photo-shoot. The girls were all airbrushed into the creepiest, bruisiest, most ghoulish body make-up, doused themselves with a healthy quantity of blood, and then took some sexy photos (sexy zombies? YOU BET!) in our morgue, autopsy suite, and old elevator cage. The results are awesome and I want to thank Shimona for sharing them with us, and allowing us to share them with you.
It is exciting to see the different ways our space can be used when artistry and imagination come into play.
Who ever would have thought the morgue was racy or risqué…
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Amazing shots. My favourite is the girl with the scratches on her leg – the second last one. EEP! Scary!
What a great collaboration. The photos are amazing and the museum just makes for some truly excellent and believable staging!
Creep me out! I wish I was a zombie pin-up! I want to see more of the undead in the museum.