At home or outdoors
Outdoor family sessions across Newham, moving indoors to Northwood when February makes that the kinder option.
Family Photographer in Newham
Family photography in Newham, from West Ham Park to your own front room, with prints, frames, canvases and albums to follow.
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Family sessions in Newham parks or at home · free consultation
For Newham
Photographing families in Newham
- Included in the session: 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 Newham: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as West Ham Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park gardens or London Blossom Garden. We travel from Northwood, about 20 miles away. 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 Newham.
Everybody gets photographed together at the very start, while nobody has been kept waiting and the clothes still look the way they did at the front door. The smaller pairings come after that, and the children come last of all, by which point they have decided we are harmless.
If the weather shuts us out, the booking transfers to Northwood on the same day rather than being lost altogether. Edited pictures land in a private gallery, at one size for framing and another for passing round the family.
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Amazing service from Mr Kaushik Bathia. He is very professional, friendly and helpful. He made the family photoshoot a funny and pleasant experience. We highly recommend him! Thank you.
What we offer
Family photography in Newham
Extended family groups
Group frame at the start, pairings next, children last, at a pace small people can sustain.
Newborn and baby sittings
Grandparents, newborns and the family dog all welcome in one session, provided we know in advance.
Bumps, newborns and growing children, one family at a time
With little ones the time of day matters most, so we would book around naps and feeds rather than whatever slot happens to be free. With a newborn everything slows down, and warmth, safety and settling come before any picture.
Maternity sessions work best a few weeks before the due date, when the bump shows clearly and standing is still comfortable. An album is arranged to read in order, starting with everyone together and finishing on the youngest.
Recent work
Recent work with families
Newham parks and gardens for a family session
For Newham families, a good setting means a playground nearby, step-free entrances and flat grass where small children can run between groups. Each park below is summarised from the council, City of London or Olympic Park page linked with it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Tumbling Bay Playground in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, next to the Timber Lodge Café, has treehouse-style structures, rock pools, sand pits, aerial walkways, rope bridges and zip wires. 1
- The London Blossom Garden in the north of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a pandemic memorial of 33 blossom trees, one per London borough, planted in three circles of hawthorn, cherry, cherry plum and crab apple. 2
- The London Stadium in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opened on 5 May 2012 for the Olympic Games and has been home to West Ham United since the 2016-17 season, with a football capacity of 62,500. 3
- Forest Lane Park in Forest Gate has a lake, a dipping pond, woodland and a children's play area. 4
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Family Photographer in Newham, FAQs
The first two weeks are ideal, while a newborn still sleeps deeply and settles easily. Getting in touch during pregnancy helps, since we can pencil in a date around the due date and move it once the baby arrives.
All of them. We photograph every age from newborn to great-grandparent, and four generations can fit into one session. Grandparents and toddlers get equal attention, and everyone ends up in at least one frame.
Both, and the weather and the youngest child's age generally settle it between them. Outdoors in Newham means West Ham Park, where the footpaths are made up and a pram is no obstacle. Northwood is the stronger option in hard cold, in heavy rain, or on a short winter afternoon, and for a newborn it is the obvious one regardless of the forecast.
Not long at all. We choose and edit the strongest frames by hand, then share them in a private online gallery. Take your time with it and order prints, canvases or an album whenever you are ready.
The choice runs from fine prints and framed wall art to canvases and hand-finished albums. From the edited gallery you pick whatever suits your walls and your family.
Serving Newham
A family photographer near Newham
Newham was formed on 1 April 1965 from East Ham and West Ham. It sits close to Tower Hamlets, which we cover too.
Beyond West Ham Park, Newham has Plashet Park on Plashet Grove, used by local people for more than 120 years, and Central Park on High Street South in East Ham, with its flower beds and history trail. Stratford station, ranked the seventh busiest railway station in Britain, is served by the Underground, the Overground, the DLR, the Elizabeth line and National Rail, which helps when grandparents are coming from elsewhere in London. For an outdoor session we would suggest the Ornamental Gardens in West Ham Park, or the London Blossom Garden in the north of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where 33 blossom trees stand in three circles.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Newham. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including the City of London, Richmond upon Thames, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, Wandsworth and Barnet.
Two very different pieces of ground serve family work in Newham, and they fail under opposite conditions. West Ham Park, under City of London management, is the sheltered one: made up footpaths, hedging and tree cover, and enough enclosure that a toddler who breaks away is twenty metres off rather than gone. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is its opposite, being wide, hard surfaced and open on every side. Prams and wheelchairs roll over that surface without a fight and there is no mud in February, but nothing sits overhead either, so on a bright afternoon every face squints and every eye socket goes dark. Small children set the schedule and nothing else does. Attention from a three year old runs to about fifteen minutes, and it does not degrade gently, it stops. What follows is not a poorer version of the same thing but a different job, in which the frames come from letting the children run and photographing what happens in the gaps. That is also when the adults stop arranging themselves, which is why the frames parents keep are usually made after they gave up on the session. Anyone who tires easily needs somewhere to sit in view of the picture, which the Olympic Park provides in benches and low walls and open grass does not. A session with a newborn is better indoors, cold or clear.
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How it works
Bringing the session to your part of Newham
We travel to Newham from Northwood, about 20 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. For families that usually means a park in the borough or your own home, with our own lights if the rooms are dark.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA: established 2001, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Not in Newham? See family photography across East London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across East London.
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Planning a particular occasion in Newham? There are dedicated pages for a maternity photoshoot near Newham, a cake smash for a first birthday, christening and naming day photography, birthday photoshoots for any age and Christmas family photoshoots.
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