The ‘shoot’

My style of family portraiture is completely documentary-style. This means that I capture the action unobtrusively without any form of posing. You choose when you would like me turn up to your house and I snap away photographing your family creatively. I’m like a friend visiting you for the day with a camera! This not only takes all the stress out of a traditional photo-shoot, but also enables me to capture much more genuine, intimate photographs of a morning/evening/day in your own home.

This fun and unique way of photographing family portraiture creates a charming set of timeless images, capturing all the little nuances of your daily life. What's really unique about this style of shoot is that nothing is choreographed. That's the point. I photograph the things that may seem mundane and repetitive, but really, they're special to that time with your kids at that age. For me, I love creating these images by using the available light and the surrounding backgrounds to give that sense of place and time. Your child/children looked like this, wore those clothes, with those pictures on the wall, playing with those toys on this day. In a month's time, these activities might be completely different. It certainly is in our family!

That's what is special about this documentary-style shoot, I want to capture what makes your family unique and undoubtedly quirky. As a new father to my daughter, Ottilie, I'm trying desperately to create my own 'This-is-our-family' keepsake, as I would really like to capture the moments I've been able to capture for other families....but I'm never in the photos!