Relaxed professional profile head shots

I always like meeting new people and taking informal professional profile head shots for them and hearing their stories about who they are and how they got to be where they’re going.

In this case Ben is a Brighton based ghost writer, author and writing coach specialising in self help and wellness books.

He contacted me and we had a chat about what he’s looking for and said that “One of things I love about the work on your site is that they can be used for formal purposes but they are anything but stuffy/uptight, you capture the  warmth and humanity of your subjects.”

I always like to hear how people see my portraits / head shots and work with them to get what they are looking for and i’m pretty pleased with the results from this shoot.

The first five years.....

I don’t really do photography projects…..however I seem to have accidentally been shooting one for five years now.

Once a month, every month for the last five years (that’s 60 shoots), i’ve been photographing Brighton people (326 in total) in various professions / hobbies / businesses for the wonderful Viva Brighton Magazine with the help of the amazing Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Mechen.

Although it's not quite an A to Z of professions, we’ve shot everything from Adventures to Window cleaners including Butchers, Bakers and Cocktail Makers.

When I started the first The Way We Work shoot in November of 2014 I didn’t think we’d be still shooting five years later, but to be honest, i’m more than happy to continue this project indefinitely as it’s such fun, incredibly interesting and is literally a documentary of The Way We Work.

Like I said, I don’t really do photography projects, but when I do they seem to be big.

Recent interior photography

I’ve been photographing a lot more interior design recently for architects, builders and designers all around Brighton & Sussex. It’s really nice to go to peoples homes and capture them looking their best for companies and businesses.

I always get inspired when doing interior photography, although my main passion is shooting people because I find them interesting, I do like the calmness which comes with interior photography.

Professional Company Headshots

A professional company headshot can really make a difference to a website. I often check out businesses About Us page to see who it is I’m talking too.

The amount of awful and amateur images I see on these pages really saddens me. You can tell that they were taken with a phone in awful light and don’t flatter the person at all.

If a company or business can’t invest photography and in taking decent photos to represent their own business what are they doing with your business.

it just makes sense to me that a business would want to represent themselves as best as they could. So I really enjoy helping them to do so and working with their staff to get great portraits / headshots / profile images.