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The same studio, 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. Rain, hard cold or a four o'clock winter dusk is when the Northwood studio wins outright: warm, one light that never changes, and a clean floor a baby can be put down on. A session with a newborn is better indoors, cold or clear.