I undertake commercial photoshoots for design and content agencies and for all types of businesses and corporations. These photoshoots range from simple headshots, to editorial portraits suitable for the media. From images that tell the story of your business through to national campaigns. I take care to listen and understand your needs so that I can carefully plan to achieve the best results and capture the right ‘feel’.
When commissioned by design and advertising agencies or when working directly with organisations, I take great care to understand my clients needs so that I can achieve the best results that work for them. Bringing creativity, enthusiasm and technical knowledge to every photoshoot, I work hard to turn my clients ideas into an inspiring visual reality. I enjoy the challenge of reflecting a companies core values through photography.
Great imagery can really make a difference in how the general public perceives a business, which in turn affects how they interact with it. Working with design agencies or with smaller businesses directly, I pride myself on really listening to my clients, asking the right questions and working collaboratively to produce imagery that successfully reflects the company’s ethos and gets their intended message across.
Working together we can build a visual identity for your business to use across marketing and advertising campaigns, social media and websites. I am always happy to meet up and discuss your ideas. Please take a look at the examples of campaigns I’ve already shot below.
I work on location all across the North of England covering areas such as Manchester, Sheffield, York, Liverpool, Birmingham, Preston, Warrington as well as Yorkshire in Leeds and Hull.
I was commissioned by SMRS, an employer marketing agency, to photograph a recruitment campaign for Balfour Beatty. I was working with the art director from SMRS, the marketing team from Balfour Beatty…
I was commissioned by SMRS, a content agency in Manchester, to work on the recruitment campaign called ‘feeling right at home’ for retail giants B&Q. I specialise in photographing people and so this was a job I could really get stuck into.
I’ve been shooting for the charity DEBRA for about 3 years now. DEBRA is a charity set up to help people with EB (epidermolysis bullosa). EB is a group of genetic skin conditions which cause the skin to blister and tear at the slightest touch.
When Candis magazine asked me to go behind the scenes for an editorial photoshoot at Bettys Tea Room, I was thrilled. It’s famous throughout Yorkshire and beyond for delicious cakes and good service.
Cadent needed to portray the working environment of their head office in Coventry and create a bank of images that could be used across LinkedIN pages, their career’s site and recruitment sites to attract new employees.
Mother and daughter team, Jill and Katy contacted me in the midst of setting up a new company called ‘Ebb and Flow’ a studio based yoga and pilates studio.
CollectPlus is a delivery service, mainly used by big fashion brands – making it easy to collect, return and send parcels. I only had a couple of hours with the CollectPlus team and my brief was to…
This was a very busy, jam packed commercial photoshoot for Yodel over four days. Content agency SMRS, based in Manchester, undertook extensive research to find the right approach for the photography and filming.
I was commissioned by SMRS, a content agency in Manchester, to create the images for The National Audit Office’s recruitment campaign. The photoshoot was to be over two days, the first at the NAO in central London…
The aim was to photograph the working environment within Swinton Insurance’s offices, capturing the atmosphere and the culture. There were four different locations spread over a two day shoot. All of the locations, Manchester, Preston…
I’ve been shooting for the BBC for over fifteen years and the images I shoot tend to fall into the following categories: Studio portraits, Reportage photography of events or promotional images for a particular radio / tv show.
I was first commissioned by the marketing manager, Jonathan, at HB Projects to photograph the directors. I made an initial visit to the head office in Bradford, West Yorkshire…
Sarah from Plum Marketing was working with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to develop and launch a new charity. Lots of illustrative feel good photography was needed to help to tell the story…
I loved meeting and photographing Alistair Simms, the last remaining Master Cooper in England. Alistair makes barrels from scratch and I had been commissioned by Waitrose Weekend Magazine, to photograph the process…
I was asked by the owner of ‘The Window Film Company’ in Birmingham to take photographs to illustrate a case study they wanted to use on their website. A team was about to install protective film on the windows of the Holiday Inn…
It’s always a challenge to get up to speed about an industry I’ve previously known very little about. However it really helps to get a good grasp of the different stages before I start taking pictures.
I used to do photoshoots in galleries in museums frequently for a period of around eight years. I believe this was down to an incentive for free entry to museums and galleries and a budget to promote…
Jonathan Cliff, Marketing Manager – HB Projects
Paul Grogan, Think Design Manchester
Dr. Martin Douglas Hendry, Virtuoso Legal
Trudy Boulert, Digital Communications Officer – Debra
Mark Ross – Design Director of Glorious Creative
Karen Williams, Publicist at the BBC
Lynsey Thompson, Events and Campaign Co-ordinator, Datel
Liz Ward – Virtuoso Legal – The Intellectual Property Specialists
Pauline Minsky, Design Manager, Manchester Art Gallery
Stuart Anderson, Editor of EN magazine until 2012
