Team and staff portraits
Team headshots are photographed on your own floor, with everyone matched and ready to drop into a City firm's website.
Commercial Photographer in the City of London
Commercial photography for the Square Mile's firms, from team headshots and office interiors to products, food and corporate events.
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Shoots at your City premises · free consultation
For the City of London
Commercial photography for City of London brands
- What the session includes: Team portraits kept consistent from person to person, discreet event coverage and clean product shots, all edited and supplied ready to use online and in print.
- Where we photograph in The City of London: Your premises, whether around Bank and Lime Street, Broadgate or One New Change, or elsewhere in the City of London. We travel from Northwood, about 15 miles away. Products can also come to the Northwood studio instead.
- To book: Call 07956 505383, send a WhatsApp message to the same number, or use the enquiry form on this page.
We take one room for the day, mark where people stand, and leave the lights alone from the first person to the last, which is what keeps a team page looking like one set instead of five separate visits.
A laptop on the table means your marketing lead can approve a frame while the subject is still standing there. Files arrive cropped square for profiles and wide for a website banner.
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Myself and my partner Michael, Was very pleased with service and professionalism, also gave good advice regarding photography of fine artworks, would recommend him and customer service first class……….
Perfect place to get headshot or passport photos taken! High quality, great speed, professional, edited to perfection.
I recently had a photography session here for my website, and I couldn't be happier with the experience. The photographer was incredibly professional, calm, patient, and made me feel comfortable throughout the session. I absolutely love all of the photos, they exceeded my expectations. I would highly recommend their services to anyone looking for high-quality, professional photography
What we offer
Commercial photography in the City of London
Premises and interiors
Office and interior photography is exposed for the room and the window separately, so the view outside survives.
Events and conferences
Conference and event coverage is available across the City, including the Barbican, and out into Clerkenwell and Farringdon, with early starts where needed.
Local and experienced
Planned around a City building's rules
Office interiors are booked for the hour the space looks best, often early before desks fill, rather than the hour that suits the diary. At a conference or launch we stay at the edges of the room, covering talks, panels and networking without interrupting anyone.
A brand shoot can build a library of people and workplace images that keeps a City firm's marketing supplied for months. Leadenhall Market, the Grade II listed Horace Jones building owned by the City of London Corporation, lies close to the Lime Street insurance district if a brand shoot wants a backdrop beyond the office.
Recent work
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Commercial shoot backdrops across the Square Mile
If your brand, product or team shoot is happening away from the Northwood studio, these places in and around the City of London show what the local backdrop offers. Every entry links back to where the information was published. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Broadgate, British Land's office campus beside Liverpool Street station, houses financial services, law, fintech and media firms alongside public spaces, shops, gyms and restaurants. 1
- The Royal Exchange at Bank junction, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham and opened by Elizabeth I in 1571, occupies a Grade I listed building of 1844 by Sir William Tite that now holds 33 shops and five restaurants and cafés. 2
- Liverpool Street station (Zone 1) is served by the Elizabeth line, Weaver rail services and the Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. 3
- Petticoat Lane Market, on Middlesex Street and Wentworth Street at the City's Portsoken Ward boundary, has traded clothing since at least 1608, with Middlesex Street trading on Sundays and Wentworth Street from Sunday to Friday. 4
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Commercial Photographer in the City of London, FAQs
Yes, across the City of London, including the Barbican, and out into Clerkenwell and Farringdon. Send the running order and the badge list a few days ahead, because a City building with a security desk will not pass a photographer through without a name on it. Available light carries the room, our own covers anything staged, and awards or handshakes are best set up before people sit down.
Yes. The lighting, background and framing from your session are written down, so a new starter at your City office can be photographed later to match. That keeps the team page and LinkedIn profiles looking like one set as people join over the years.
Yes, ideally booked outside the lunchtime service so the kitchen is not stretched. Dishes and drinks are styled and photographed fresh from the pass, so they look as good on screen as on the plate. Files come cropped for printed menus, delivery apps and social posts.
It depends on scope: a morning of headshots on one floor is a smaller job than a full brand, interiors and team shoot. Tell us how you will use the images and how many products or people are involved, and we send back a clear, tailored quote.
Yes, styling, props and simple sets for product and food work are part of the job, so dishes and items look their best. Brand pieces you want in shot can be brought along and worked into the set.
Serving the City of London
A commercial photographer near the City of London
The City of London is the historic financial heart of the capital, governed by the City of London Corporation and divided into 25 ancient wards. It sits close to Camden and Islington, which we cover too.
The banking core centres on Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, home to the Bank of England, while insurance firms cluster around Lime Street. Liverpool Street station, in Zone 1, brings in the Elizabeth line, Weaver rail services and the Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, which helps when event guests are travelling in.
More in the City of London
More photography services in the City of London
The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in the City of London. Explore the rest: we also cover commercial photography across London, including Barnet, Hammersmith and Fulham, Newham, Kingston upon Thames and Lewisham.
The Square Mile's business is finance and professional services, which means commercial work here is mostly about people and the rooms they occupy, not objects arranged on a table. Two practical problems follow from that, and both are solved before a camera comes out of the bag. The first is the building. A City floor sits behind a security desk, a pass barrier and a lift that wants a card, and a photographer without a name on a list can lose the first half hour of a booking standing in a lobby. Names, times and an equipment list go across in advance, and we plan to be through the barrier before the first person is due. The second is the light already in the room. Office floors are lit by continuous ceiling panels pointing straight down, which puts the top of the head at full brightness and leaves the eyes dark. Adding more of the same only makes it worse. The answer is a source at face height, placed to one side, strong enough to take over from the ceiling rather than argue with it. Glazing causes the opposite trouble: a desk with a full height window behind it turns the person into an outline, so either the glass moves to the side of the frame or the room is exposed twice and combined later so the view outside survives. Consistency across a team is a discipline rather than a technique.
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Guides
Commercial guides for the City of London
Reading from our journal to help plan a commercial shoot for a City of London business.
How it works
On-location photography in the City of London
We travel to the City of London from Northwood (about 15 miles) rather than asking you to travel to us. On a City floor we bring the lighting the room needs, whether the job is a team of headshots, an office interior or a conference.
Commercial shoots in the Square Mile are photographed by Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA, who started in Northwood in 2001 and whose work holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Beyond City of London, see commercial photography across Central London. For every other service, see photography across Central London.
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Alongside commercial work in City of London we photograph corporate events and parties and team and corporate headshots.
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