Back To Work: Corporate Headshots, Events, Office Lifestyle

It will be of no surprise to you that the Covid-19 pandemic had a serious negative effect on my business as a corporate photographer in London. My job has always been reliant on people being at work in offices, so the lockdowns were not good for business. But there were little bits of work, here and there, which helped me make it through, and I’ve come out the other side of the pandemic with all guns blazing. It’s been a super busy year so far, dominated by headshots but with an increasing number of corporate events happening again since the easing of restrictions.

It was such a great relief to be busy again, visiting my clients’ offices to shoot an enormous number of headshots because so many people have changed jobs in the last two years. I’ve met loads and loads of people doing that, and I’ve been really enjoying getting back into the swing of things. Events have come back into full force, and I’ve been loving getting creative again to help my clients’ events look outstanding.

Probably the best thing to come out of the pandemic is the new approach to working that the majority of businesses and society have adopted. Businesses realised that many employees are more productive when they work at home because there are fewer distractions. Less time is wasted commuting back and forth to the office each day, less time is used up moving between meetings because they are all lined up back to back on Zoom or Teams.

But people really missed being in the office; the atmosphere, the company, the interaction and environment. There are some meetings and work that are best done face to face, in the flesh. It’s the interaction and atmosphere in the office that often attracts people to work for a particular business. So office lifestyle photography is as important as ever; photos and imagery that showcases what it’s like to work for an organisation.

It’s so good to be busy again in London taking photos of events and people again. Here is a selection of some of my favourite images since the pandemic eased towards the end of 2021.