Kogan Renaissance Portraiture are Canada's true professional portrait photographers. Striving to create life altering images as in the great ages of portraiture, by far the most important function of the official portrait today is the embodiment of the ritual of being honored by a 'portrait'. Once only for the wealthy and privileged. In fact, for several centuries (until about the nineteenth century) most of the men and women represented in portraits were of the elite, privileged class.