Morning everyone – hope you are all doing well. Welcome to my April newsletter.  We start with a trip to Liverpool for a commercial photoshoot with Arc Hospitality Recruitment.  Arc supplies temporary staff to the hospitality industries, such as restaurants and festivals.  They are a really friendly, welcoming bunch and I worked with Ashleigh, from the marketing department to capture a range of marketing images.  Firstly we photographed Arc hospitality staff working in the beautiful restaurant at the Titanic Hotel.  We rushed (it was January and freezing) outside for a few team shots against the red brick and the industrial metal, followed by staff headshots. A jam packed mixed day to keep me on my toes.

Onto the second part of my job for Greater Manchester’s NHS CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services).  This was a recruitment campaign and my brief was to photograph mental health practitioners in their place of work and to create positive images with warmth, depth and story telling backgrounds. We visited a range of locations and my eyes were opened to the scope and breadth that the truly amazing staff at CAMHS cover in greater Manchester.

I headed over to York for a lovely photoshoot with Northern Accelerator and Third Age Therapeutics, a company that has an amazing mission to “optimise the psychological health and mental wellbeing of older people”.  I managed to get very lost between the car park and the University and somehow ended up dragging all my kit up and down a great big hill.  I was rather frazzled by the time I arrived but I was given a warm understanding welcome and handed a calming cup of tea.  Our photoshoot took place in both the interior and the beautiful grounds of Heslington Hall, part of the university of York, which has the most stunning shaped yew trees. I felt as though I’d stepped onto the set of a period drama!

A short and sweet corporate photoshoot for YLEM Energy in Salford, to produce a set of consistent headshots of one of the teams to tie in with a previous set of images.

Lastly, an example of event photography for Cambridge Health Network. CHN promotes collaboration between the public, private and academic sectors by connecting hundreds of the most prominent healthcare leaders through debate, challenge and exclusive events.  The event was hosted by Mills and Reeve in their Manchester office and drew people from all across the North of England.  It was a busy and successful debate and featured a talk by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.