Giving Back

Giv­ing back, work­ing with ani­mal char­i­ties and other great organ­i­sa­tions that sup­port and help the wel­fare of our four-legged friends is very impor­tant to Zoo Stu­dio. We have three res­cue cats and a res­cue dog our­selves and they are truly the BEST pets in the world. We are so happy we were able to pro­vide them with a lov­ing home, and yes they get spoilt rotten!

Zoo Stu­dio proudly works with a num­ber of  won­der­ful char­i­ties and organ­i­sa­tions focused on the wel­fare of our Ani­mals across Aus­tralia.  We sup­port these organ­i­sa­tions in many ways includ­ing: pho­to­graphic sup­port, cre­at­ing & pro­mot­ing fund-raising cam­paigns, cash dona­tions, attend­ing events and donat­ing gift voucher prizes.

Offi­cial Cor­po­rate Pho­tog­ra­phy Part­ner for RSPCA QLD

Zoo Stu­dio is proudly recog­nised as RSPCA QLD’s Offi­cial Pho­tog­ra­phy Part­ner. Through­out the year, Zoo Stu­dio is actively involved with the RSPCA QLD in a num­ber of key events, in order to help raise much needed funds. These include the Mil­lion Paws Walk, Santa Paws, the Montville Food and Wine Evening, the RSCPA Gala Ball, and RSPCA Aware­ness Week.

All our pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vices are pro-bono and all pro­ceeds from the sale of pho­tos at Mil­lion Paws Walk and Santa Paws go directly to the RSPCA. Through­out the year we help to raise over $20,000 and we also con­tribute more than $95,000 in cor­po­rate pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vices and images each year. The RSPCA is a won­der­ful organ­i­sa­tion, and the peo­ple who work there are amaz­ing indi­vid­u­als who all con­tribute so much to the wel­fare of our ani­mal kingdom.

“RSPCA Qld has had the plea­sure of work­ing with Zoo Stu­dio for over eigh­teen months. Dur­ing this time Ken has pho­tographed all crea­tures great and small from Great Dane’s to Guinea Pigs, as well as an array of wildlife and birds includ­ing Snakes, Tur­tles and Owls. The pro­fes­sion­al­ism and patience of Ken is flaw­less. He not only helps the ani­mals to feel at ease, he helps to bring out their unique behav­iours, poses and per­son­al­i­ties, result­ing in exquis­ite images that cap­ture the true heart, soul and beauty of the animal.

On behalf of the staff, vol­un­teers and ani­mals at RSPCA Qld, we would like to extend our deep­est grat­i­tude to Zoo Stu­dio, whose cre­ativ­ity and con­tin­ued sup­port enables us to bet­ter pro­mote both the inner and outer beauty of man’s best friend. Of all of our friends.” — Sue Gilbert, Direc­tor for Fundrais­ing, Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions RSPCA QLD

Lit­tle Paws Kit­ten Rescue

The Lit­tle Paws Kit­ten Res­cue Asso­ci­a­tion is a car­ing team of peo­ple through­out Bris­bane, the Gold and Sun­shine Coasts, Ipswich and the Downs areas that help lit­tle orphaned, older kit­tens and mamma cats that need TLC.   They have also res­cued a num­ber of severely abused cats and cared for them until they are well enough to be placed in a new home.

Their goal is to help as many kit­tens and cats as pos­si­ble to find lov­ing secure homes so that they can have peace and con­tent­ment through­out their lives and we aim to teach the pub­lic about the respon­si­ble own­er­ship of cats and kittens.

Zoo Stu­dio has been sup­port­ing Lit­tle Paws Kit­ten Res­cue with fundrais­ing activ­i­ties, events and beau­ti­ful pho­tog­ra­phy since early 2010 and have donated over $7,500 in prod­ucts and ser­vices to help raise much needed funds!

HeARTs Speak

A com­pelling pho­to­graph can reach into the heart of a poten­tial adopter, and bring an ani­mal one step closer to a long-life out­side of a shel­ter. HeARTs Speak is an inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion founded in the USA which pro­motes ani­mal adop­tion by con­nect­ing artists with shel­ters and ani­mal relief orga­ni­za­tions world­wide. Through the ser­vices of it’s pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher mem­bers vol­un­teer­ing their time, HeARTs Speaks hopes to increase the num­ber of ani­mals adopted and reduce the num­bers that are euth­a­nizedand ulti­mately, to save and bet­ter the lives of ani­mals and peo­ple.  Zoo Stu­dio are proud to be a pro­fes­sional ser­vice mem­ber for HeARTs Speak.

Guide Dogs QLD

Estab­lished in 1960, Guide Dogs Queens­land helps to equip, empower and edu­cate Queens­lan­ders who are blind or vision impaired, of all ages, with a range of ori­en­ta­tion and mobil­ity services.

With less than seven per cent Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for some spe­cific reha­bil­i­ta­tion ser­vices, and none for their Guide Dogs, they rely on the gen­eros­ity of indi­vid­u­als, puppy spon­sors, cor­po­rate sup­port and peo­ple who leave a bequest in their Will to fund our vital work.

Zoo Stu­dio has been sup­port­ing Guide Dogs QLD since Octo­ber 2010 pro­vid­ing fundrais­ing prizes and raf­fle dona­tions and we also col­lab­o­rate with them to pro­vide pho­tog­ra­phy images for Guide Dogs QLD campaigns.

Peiradise — Par­adise for Shar Pei

Peiradise — Par­adise for Res­cued Shar Pei was formed to save Shar Pei in pounds or shel­ters. Shar Pei are an ancient breed who were bred as guard dogs and who rely on human inter­ac­tion so the the breed do not cope well in shel­ter envi­ron­ments.  They accept dogs who are Shar Pei cross and now also accept dogs sur­ren­dered directly from their own­ers to avoid the stress of the pounds and shel­ters on the dogs. Their aim is to have shel­ters and pounds direct peo­ple to us prior to accept­ing the dogs. This way we have a bet­ter change of reha­bil­i­tat­ing them and find­ing them new homes.

Zoo Stu­dio have been work­ing with Peiradise since 2009  using our pho­tog­ra­phy to help sup­port adop­tion of Shar Pei’s in need of a new for­ever home.