Built around the youngest
Family sessions at Brockwell Park or at home, timed for when the youngest is at their best.
Family Photographer in Lambeth
Family photography across Lambeth, at home or in parks such as Brockwell Park and Archbishop's Park, patient with little ones and led by natural smiles.
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Family sessions at home, in a Lambeth park · free consultation
Lambeth and nearby
What happens at a Lambeth family session
- What the session includes: Natural portraits and candid moments of everyone together, from newborns to grandparents, paced for the youngest, then a private online gallery to choose your favourites.
- Where we photograph in Lambeth: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Brockwell Park, Archbishop's Park or Kennington Park. We travel from Northwood, about 15 miles away. Newborn sessions can be photographed at your home, or at the Northwood studio if you prefer.
- Booking: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
The whole group is photographed early, then it splits: parents with each child, the children by themselves, grandparents with grandchildren. Anyone who has travelled furthest is finished before they tire.
Nothing is posed beyond putting people where the light is. The rest comes from giving children something to do and photographing what follows. You receive an edited gallery on a private link, and we keep the ones where somebody has just laughed at something out of shot, because those tend to be what gets framed.
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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.
…The gentleman took my family and I last minute for a photoshoot. Although we were running extremely late as we had a newborn, he waited patiently for us. He initially said he could only do 30 minutes because we were late but he ended up spending the entire hour and some minutes making sure we had the best photos.
Fantastic service, Kaushik captured some amazing shots of our family. He is patient, professional, friendly and creative which really helps when trying to get pictures with young children. You never feel rushed and the final product will be something we cherish for years to come. This was our second time with Kaushik and we will be going back again. We have no hesitation in recommending him. Thank you Kaushik!
What we offer
Family photography in Lambeth
Extended family groups
Three generations on one booking, with the group picture taken first and everything else built around it.
Your edited gallery
An edited gallery on a private link, printable, and cropped for the few that go on a wall.
Why choose us
Newborns to grandparents, one session
What we look for is the connection between you, the cuddles, giggles and quiet moments, not a row of people told to smile.
Bring spare clothes, spare nappies, a feed and something for an older sibling to do. Everything else you are likely to need is already here. Small details count as much as the portraits: hands, tiny feet and the things that change within weeks.
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Lambeth parks and gardens for a family session
With small children, a Lambeth park with grass to run on and a short walk from the car or bus matters more than a famous view. Each place below is summarised from a published source, linked so you can check opening times before the day. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Norwood Park in West Norwood (SE19 1DZ), on one of the highest points in Lambeth, has a children's playground, a skateboard park and a tree-lined Country Walk, and was declared a Local Nature Reserve on 3 March 2023. 1
- The Rookery beside Streatham Common is a Grade II listed historic garden with a cascade of ornamental ponds, an Old English Garden and a White Garden, first opened to the public in 1913. 2
- Clapham Common is a Metropolitan Common of more than 85 hectares, recorded in the Domesday Book, and has two playgrounds, a paddling pool, a skatepark, three ponds and a Victorian bandstand. 3
- Windrush Square in central Brixton, completed as a single plaza in 2010, holds the African and Caribbean War Memorial and the Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion designed by Sir David Adjaye, beside the Black Cultural Archives. 4
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Family Photographer in Lambeth, FAQs
You can order fine prints, framed wall art, canvases or a hand-finished album, each made from the images you choose. After the session an edited online gallery arrives to look through at your own pace, and you decide what suits your family and your walls.
Yes. Running order does the heavy lifting. Older children go first, while their goodwill lasts, and the baby is photographed afterwards, since a newborn will sleep through the whole business regardless. Nobody then sits around getting tired waiting for a turn. At home in Lambeth it happens in one room, with the pram, the toys and the feeding all within reach.
Truly every age. We welcome newborns, babies, toddlers, older children and teenagers, alongside parents and grandparents too, right through to four generations in one go. Photographing a whole family across every stage of life is what we love most, and nobody misses out.
Yes, in your own home rather than in our room, which given the distance involved is the only sensible arrangement for a Lambeth booking. The early weeks are the easiest window. A session runs slowly, because feeding and changing come first and the schedule bends around them. We work close to a window, with the room warmer than you would normally keep it, and nothing gets posed that the baby has not already settled into.
Because we build the session around Brockwell Park's quiet hour rather than around a convenient diary slot. Lambeth families are booked early in the day, we work within a couple of minutes of one entrance so nothing has to be carried far, and there is a wet weather answer ready: your own home, same day, same booking, instead of rescheduling three weeks out and starting the whole negotiation again.
Serving Lambeth
A family photographer near Lambeth
For a family session in Lambeth we come to you from Northwood, and Kennington Park, a public park since 1852, is another open space we would suggest alongside Brockwell Park. It sits close to Southwark and Wandsworth, which we cover too.
Lambeth has been shaped by Caribbean migration since the 1950s and is home to about 317,000 people, with green space from Archbishop's Park on Carlisle Lane to Brockwell Park, which opened to the public in 1892. Families coming by train can use Vauxhall on the Victoria line, and London Waterloo has step-free access to all platforms, which helps with a pram. Sessions on location in Lambeth can use Brockwell Park near Herne Hill and Brixton.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Lambeth. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Haringey, Sutton, Greenwich and Southwark.
Two things shape a Lambeth family session before the forecast gets a say. One is the length of the borough. It runs from Waterloo down to Streatham, so a family in Kennington and grandparents in Streatham will not meet anywhere convenient by accident, and Brockwell Park is properly local to the Herne Hill and Brixton end rather than to all of it. We pick the ground around whoever faces the hardest journey, which is usually the oldest person coming. The other is that plenty of families here travel on foot or by train rather than by car, and a pram, a changing bag and a toddler do not manage steps well. So we meet at whichever entrance you come in by and stay close to it, rather than naming a point deep inside the park and leaving everyone to find it. After that it is patience. Small children spend theirs at the start and none of it returns, so the frame containing everybody gets made first, while standing about is still a novelty, and the loose running-around pictures come later, once nobody is being told where to stand. If a grandparent is unsteady, we keep to level ground near the entrance and photograph them seated, with the children brought over to them. In midwinter, or with a baby too small to sit up, one warm room at home beats the lot of it.
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How it works
How we work in Lambeth
We are based in Northwood, about 15 miles from Lambeth, so a family session there would normally be outdoors or at your home. Family sessions are photographed on location, with lighting brought in as needed.
Kaushik Bathia photographs every family session himself; he has worked from Northwood since 2001, is FBIPP and FMPA, and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Not in Lambeth? See family photography across South London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across South London.
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