Dental Implants In Battersea

The team at London Dental Implants, a specialist dental surgery in Battersea, asked me to come in to shoot a variety of photos for their website.

They needed some smart head shots of their staff as well as some ‘action’ photos featuring real (and pretend) patients undergoing treatment.

I went along on two separate occasions to make sure I could get photos of all the staff members, and the whole team was really friendly and welcoming. It wasn’t the first time I had shot photos in a medical environment, having shot clinics on Harley Street and Weymouth Street in central London, so I felt quite comfortable doing it. The brief was to capture interesting and different angles of their staff giving patients treatment, rather than a normal ‘patient in a chair’ image. It was my kind of brief!

Here are a few images from the day. Thanks to the team over at London Dental Implants.

Corporate Headshots in Chelsea

Wow, it has been too long since I blogged. I really have no excuse either, so I’m just gonna get straight into it, and go back a few months to January.

I was asked to help out an asset management firm in Chelsea, called Oakley Capital, with some photos of their staff for their new website that was soon to launch.

Having done a site visit to their offices in order to scope out the best place to shoot, I decided on a particular large meeting room as my location, because it gave me enough room to set up a couple of different lighting set-ups which would make the whole process quicker and easier.

A couple of weeks later I came back and spent two full days shooting corporate head shots of the staff at Oakley Capital, before going back a third time for a few hours to shoot a few staff members who couldn’t be present on the initial two days.

Doing a shoot like this taught me a few lessons, which I’ll take forward into future jobs of a similar ilk. I love that each new shoot I do is an opportunity to learn.

Here are a few of my favourite shots from the staff and a screen grab of the new website featuring the corporate head shots themselves.

Photographing an American Billionaire

A few weeks ago I had the chance to take some portraits of Vernon Hill. For those of you who don't know who he is, let me tell you. He is the American billionaire founder of Metro Bank in the UK, the new high street bank that opened up a few years back in 2010. He originally set up a bank called Commerce Bank in the USA at the age of 26 which was later sold for $8.5 billion. Not much then!

I was asked to come into the Metro Bank UK head office at Holborn to take some photos of him, his wife Shirley, their terrier Sir Duffield, and a chap from Seguso, an art glass and design company in which Metro Bank has invested.

Having waited around for 30 minutes or so, I had about 5 minutes in a random meeting room to get a photo that they could use for PR purposes. I managed to shoot a few frames and this was my favourite shot. 

Metro Bank Founder and Chairman, Vernon Hill, his wife Shirley, dog Duffy and a representative from Seguso.

Muffin Break!

Earlier this month I was asked to photograph the opening of a new branch of the Australian cafe chain, Muffin Break in Southside shopping centre, Wandsworth. It's the first branch in London, so it was quite a big deal for the company.

There were staff a plenty, loads of baked treats and good coffee all on offer for the folks who were passing through Southside on that Friday morning.

The work was on behalf of agency Ware Anthony Rust, who are based in Cambridge. They managed to find a very local photographer on this occasion as I'm based about a 3 minute bus ride away in Clapham Junction.

Check out a few of my favourite images from the morning opening.