Est. MMXX Photographer · Videographer Las Vegas · NV

Kevin Cadaver

Create · Express · Become

A camera is a passport into rooms most people never see. I don’t document comfort — comfort has no story.

CDVRS — 001

02 // The Creed

Why I Do It

Kevin Cadaver · First Person

I don’t live behind four walls. I was told that was a phase. It has outlasted every apartment I ever signed for.

A camera is a passport. It gets me into the back of the venue, the third hour of a tattoo, the van at 4AM between two cities that both feel like nowhere. Nobody asks why you’re there if you’re carrying one.

I photograph people who chose the harder road on purpose. They aren’t romantic about it. They just did the math and decided comfort was too expensive.

What I sell is
proof.

Content evaporates. Proof stays. A print on your wall is physical evidence that something real happened in a room you weren’t in.

Create. Express. Become.
In that order, every time.

03 // The Series

The Cadaver Crew

Kevin Cadaver standing at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign at dusk

The camera is my passport into every industry and every walk of life.

Cadaver Crew is the series I’m building with it. People who understand they could die any day — and choose to spend every one of them doing the thing they love.

They know exactly what it costs. The apprenticeship over the salary. The tour van over the mortgage. The jump, the needle, the road, the stage. They do it anyway, because the alternative is a long safe life spent being someone else.

They’d rather die doing what they love than live doing anything else.

If that’s you, or you know who it is, I want to document it.

Put someone forward

04 // The Doors

Doors The Work Opened

Nobody handed me these. The work got me through the door and I walked in carrying a camera.

  • Toyota
  • Live Nation
  • Insomniac
  • Avalon
  • Observatory OC
  • Ornamentalika
  • Infected Rain
  • Golden State Tattoo Expo

Every one of them started the same way. Show up, do the work, get asked back.

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05 // The Relics

Take Something With You

Every one of these is proof that a room existed and somebody was standing in it.

06 // Inquire

Tell Me What Happened

Or what’s about to. Dates, city, what you’re trying to prove. I answer everything.

Tell me the dates, the city, and what the work is for. If you already know what you want, say that too — and if you don’t, describe the room and I’ll tell you what it takes to get in it.

Email me

I read everything and I answer everything — give me a day, two if it’s a weekend.