A rain plan for a Dagenham park day
Sessions can run outdoors in Barking and Dagenham, or indoors when the weather or a small baby decides otherwise.
Family Photographer in Barking and Dagenham
Family photographs in Barking and Dagenham parks or at home, taken at a child's pace so the smiles are real.
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Family sessions in Barking and Dagenham parks · talk plans through first
Barking and Dagenham and nearby
Family photography for Barking and Dagenham
- Included in the session: A relaxed session of usually about an hour, led by the children's mood, with a private online gallery afterwards and the option of prints, framed wall art or a hand-finished album.
- Where we photograph in Barking and Dagenham: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Eastbury Manor courtyard and walled garden, Valence House gardens or Barking Park. We travel from Northwood, about 24 miles away, by arrangement. Newborn sessions can be photographed at your home, or at the Northwood studio if you prefer.
- To book: Use the form at the end of this page, or call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, and we will arrange a date and place in Barking and Dagenham.
The running order is built around a short attention span rather than around the shot list. Every child in one frame comes first, while that is still possible, then the pairs, then the ones with grandparents sitting down. Whatever is left after that is a bonus and never the plan.
Expect a session measured in minutes rather than hours, and a gallery afterwards that keeps the frames where somebody is laughing at the wrong moment. Those are the ones worth printing.
Check availability
Took brilliant pictures this year for me and my family! and even before hand 16 years ago took very professional pictures hence why we came back!
I took my elderly parents to have photos path the grandchildren. The whole experience from photo shoot to choosing and picking up the photos was amazing. Kaushik was polite helpful and friendly and made all the kids and my elderly parents feel comfortable. They all enjoyed the experience and the photos were amazing. He even delivered them home on Christmas Eve!
We had our family portraits done many years ago with Kaushik Bathia and we loved them so we have now returned again this time with new additions to the family. On all the occasions we went Kaushik Bathia has taken care of everyone and made everyone laugh and smile especially the children in order to get the best photos.
What we offer
Family photography in Barking and Dagenham
Grandparents included
We meet at the car park, so prams, bags and grandparents all start from the same point.
Extended family groups
Large groups are arranged quickly and kept to the combinations you will actually frame.
Why choose us
Relaxed sessions children enjoy
Children are never bribed or pushed into smiling; the real smiles come on their own and wear better in an album.
We pick and edit the best frames first, then share them in an online gallery before you choose prints or an album. Wall art and albums are then designed around the frames you love.
Recent work
Recent family portraits
Parks and playgrounds in Barking and Dagenham for family pictures
With children, the best setting has room to run and somewhere to pause, so these notes pick out parks, playgrounds and historic gardens in Barking and Dagenham that a family session could use. Opening days and photography permissions vary, so check them for the place you pick, particularly at Eastbury Manor House, before we fix a date. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Mayesbrook Park in Dagenham is a 43-hectare park opened in 1934 for the Becontree estate, with two large lakes in a Local Nature Reserve at its southern end and a role as the UK's first climate change park. 1
- Eastbury Manor courtyard and walled garden. Eastbury Manor House has a cobbled courtyard, a walled garden with bee-boles and rare early 17th-century wall paintings. 2
- Barking Town Hall on Clockhouse Avenue, the council's headquarters, is a locally listed Neo-Georgian building by Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edmonds, inspired by Stockholm City Hall, begun in 1939 and opened in 1958. 3
- Barking Park, north of Longbridge Road and north-east of Barking town centre, opened on 9 April 1898, covers 30 hectares and has a 910-metre boating lake. 4
Sources
Good to know
Family Photographer in Barking and Dagenham, FAQs
Because we arrive with the plan already made: where in Barking and Dagenham to start, at what hour, and what to do if the light or the ground has changed by the day itself. You get told what to expect rather than asked what you want.
It follows your baby from the newborn session through sitting up and first steps to a cake smash on the first birthday. Four sittings across twelve months show just how quickly a baby changes.
Yes. We travel to Barking and Dagenham from Northwood, and we cover Ilford, Rainham and Chadwell Heath too. Tell us which park entrance suits you and we will be there ahead of you. Arrive a little early and let the children run about before we start, rather than beginning cold. Bring a change of clothes for anyone under five, something to drink, and a favourite toy kept out of sight.
The choice runs from fine prints and framed wall art to canvases and hand-finished albums, all built around your favourite images. After the session you look through an edited gallery online and pick what suits your walls.
Yes at home in Barking and Dagenham. At home we need one room with a decent window and the heating turned up higher than the adults will find comfortable. Feed on demand rather than to a schedule, and let us work around it. Allow a long unhurried window; a newborn session runs to the baby's clock and cannot be squeezed into a fixed slot.
Serving Barking and Dagenham
A family photographer near Barking and Dagenham
We photograph family sessions across London, and we travel to Barking and Dagenham (Greater London) from Northwood, about 24 miles away. It sits close to Newham and Redbridge, which we cover too.
The borough includes the Becontree estate, built by the London County Council between 1921 and 1935 and the largest public housing estate in the world when it was completed. Dagenham has Becontree, Dagenham Heathway and Dagenham East stations on the District line, plus Dagenham Dock on c2c, and Eastbrookend Country Park has a free car park, which helps with a pushchair.
More in Barking and Dagenham
More photography services in Barking and Dagenham
The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Barking and Dagenham. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Tower Hamlets, Merton, the City of London, Richmond upon Thames and Islington.
Central Park opened in 1932 on what had been Eastbrook Farm land, and at 124 acres it has plenty of open space for a family session. Its improvement works added about a mile of new paths, which helps a grandparent enjoy an hour outdoors rather than endure it and makes a pram easier to manage. Open parkland gives clean, uncluttered backgrounds, but it can offer little shade exactly where a group is standing. On a bright day, open ground tends to put one hard light across the whole frame. When the light turns harsh, the remedy is usually the hour rather than a change of position: early morning, or the last stretch of afternoon before dusk. On a cloudless summer midday we would move the date instead. Open ground also means wind, which small children resent far more than cold. Order of shooting matters more than location with a young family. The useful part of a session with a three-year-old finishes long before the adults believe it has, so we take the group frame the grandparents actually want at the start, while everyone is fresh and clean, and count everything after it as gained.
Guides
Family guides for Barking and Dagenham
Journal reading for Barking and Dagenham parents planning a family shoot.
What the whole family might wear to a Barking or Dagenham park shoot
Read the guide
Fun Family Sessions With Kids
Read the guide
Wedding Photography in Barking and Dagenham
documentary, warm & unhurried
Asian Wedding Photography in Barking and Dagenham
Hindu, Sikh, Gujarati, Muslim & Tamil
Hindu Wedding Photography in Barking and Dagenham
mandap, pheras & saptapadi
Sikh Wedding Photography in Barking and Dagenham
Anand Karaj, mehndi & baraat
Muslim Wedding Photography in Barking and Dagenham
the nikah, mehndi & walima
How it works
How we work in Barking and Dagenham
We travel to Barking and Dagenham from Northwood, about 24 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. Family sessions can be photographed on location too, with lighting brought along if a room at home needs it.
Every family session in the borough is photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Popular sessions
Looking for something specific? See maternity photoshoots, cake smash sessions, christening photography near Barking and Dagenham, birthday photoshoots and Christmas and seasonal mini sessions.
Based in London
Book your Barking and Dagenham shoot
Tell us what you'd like to capture in Barking and Dagenham and we'll send availability, ideas and pricing.