Corporate Photos With A View

When people ask me what I like most about my job, I always tell them the answer is a simple one. I really enjoy meeting all the different people. Every person I meet and photograph has a different story and character and I love where the conversations can lead. 

However, one of the other great perks of being a corporate photographer in London is the many interesting locations, buildings and offices I get to visit. 

Not long ago I took some headshots and office lifestyle photos for a company called CCI. They’re an American company but their London office occupies a whole floor of one of London’s most iconic skyscrapers, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie. Not only is it in this awesome building, but it is also on the second-to-top floor, with just the popular SkyGarden bar and restaurant above it. As you would expect, the view from this office was pretty

Impressive. I’ve seen a lot of views of London, including from the top of the Shard, but this view, in my opinion, was unbeatable. From one side of their office, you are about 500 metres from the Gherkin and the city. Walk around to the other corner of the building and you are looking down at Tower Bridge. And the other corner has a view looking west along the Thames with St Paul’s Cathedral particularly noticeable. 

Needless to say with a view like this I had to capture as much of the view as possible in the photos. It was a bright day outside so in order to balance the light inside the office with that outside, I needed to add some extra light inside. 

You can see the results below. Hopefully you agree I did the view justice in the short amount of time I had to capture it. 

The People of The London Clinic

I’ve been working for a while now with The London Clinic. The first substantial project was to take photos of many of the staff. That was so that patients can see who is looking after them on the TV screen in their room. That involved seeing most of the hospital and meeting a lot of the amazing people who look after the patients on a daily basis. 

I returned more recently to take some portrait photos of a number of consultants and some of the office-based commercial team. I had to set up in a small consultation room but I think still succeeded in taking some photos of people that captured their character and professionalism. 

Here are some of my favourites from that day:

Interiors for Itsu & Waterstones

I took some interior and exterior photos of a newly refurbished location for Itsu in London City as well as a recently refurbished Waterstones store in the Bentalls Centre in Kingston Upon Thames. The connection between the two? They are both clients of my client, Shoplight, who installed all the lighting.

Japanese food, in particular sushi, is such a popular choice now for office workers at lunch because it’s a healthy and tasty option, so Itsu has been opening up new stores and refurbishing old ones to keep up with the trend. This restaurant is a small one in the heart of the city at the bottom of the Willis Building.

Waterstones is one of the UK's leading book retailers and they are gradually refurbishing their locations in order to make them more appealing places in which people would want to spend their time. One way they are doing that is by including a cafe within their stores. I was pleased to visit their store in Kingston which looks great, as you can see below.

Wine Tasting & Networking

I always respect and admire people who can smell and taste a glass of wine and correctly identify the flavours and ingredients used to make it. My palate just isn’t refined enough. With me, it’s a more simple question of whether or not I like a wine!

Anyway, I was invited along by one of my clients to capture an evening of wine tasting they had arranged for some of their clients, at the rather cool St Martin’s Lane Hotel in London.

The evening was spent in two very different rooms. The first was very dark and atmospheric, whilst the second room was bright and airy. So I needed to light up the dark room with some off-camera flash, which helped illuminate people’s faces without killing the atmosphere in the room. The second room didn’t need any additional light, even though it was later in the evening.

Here are some of my favourite images from that night: