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Family sessions in Southwark Park or at home, built around how long the youngest can genuinely last.
Family Photographer in Southwark
Family photography in Southwark, from newborns to grandparents, at home, in Southwark Park.
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Family sessions in Southwark parks or at home, with a free consultation included
Southwark and nearby
Family sessions around Southwark, for every generation
- Included in the session: About an hour in front of the camera, unhurried and patient with little ones, followed by an online gallery; favourites can become fine-art prints, framed pieces or an album.
- Where we photograph in Southwark: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Potters Fields Park, Southwark Park or Geraldine Mary Harmsworth 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: Use the form at the end of this page, or call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, and we will arrange a date and place in Southwark.
Plan on somewhere near forty minutes of willing cooperation from a small child, which is plenty provided none of it goes on walking. We choose a single spot, stay put, and let the children treat the place as theirs for the duration.
Everybody photographed receives the same gallery afterwards, so a grandparent who could not travel is not left chasing copies of anything. Prints are ordered straight from it, at whatever size the wall actually wants. Nothing gets held back for a separate viewing appointment.
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…I felt the session was flexible and took into account the limited attention span of a 5 year old child! We had numerous photos taken of us, separately and together in three different outfits. We were very happy with the results and found it difficult to shortlist our favourites from soo many amazing photos. I would highly recommend them.
Kaushik Bathia has photographed our family on many occasions and done a fantastic job. His work is displayed all over our family homes and he has captured moments which will be cherished forever. He also managed to get great pictures of my two children (both under 5), a near enough impossible task in itself. We highly recommend!
…Kaushik has photographed our family on a number of occasions, and the experience has always been fantastic. Not only is the time that he spends with us very enjoyable, it is also a very relaxed experience as Kaushik manages to take phenomenal photos of you and your family in your everyday environment. Therefore, the photos always look very natural and relaxed.
What we offer
Family photography in Southwark
Newborn and baby sittings
Newborns, toddlers, teenagers and grandparents, the whole group first and smaller groupings taken afterwards.
Arranged frames first
Relaxed and unhurried instead of lined up, with one arranged frame secured early as insurance.
Why choose us
Calm, patient family sessions in Southwark
Group sessions keep moving and stay light, so even the youngest keep their patience. Warmth and good humour keep a house full of children fun rather than fraught.
Grandparents, older children, the family pet or a treasured toy can all join the session.
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Family photographs from our portfolio
Southwark parks and riverside spots for a family session
With children, we would choose grass to run on, a lake or playground to head for, and toilets within reach, over any famous view. Details on each park and landmark come from the source linked with it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside is a reconstruction of the 1599 playhouse for which Shakespeare wrote, completed in 1997 close to the site of the original. 1
- Southwark Park on Gomm Road, SE16, covers 63 acres and opened in 1869 as one of the Metropolitan Board of Works' earliest parks, with a boating lake, a bandstand, the Ada Salter Garden and the Southwark Park Galleries. 2
- Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park on Kennington Road (SE1), opened in 1934 on the former Bethlem Hospital grounds, has a playground for children up to 14, picnic areas, the Tibetan Peace Garden dedicated by the Dalai Lama in 1999 and the Soviet War Memorial. 3
- Winchester Palace. The ruins of Winchester Palace on Clink Street, built in the early 13th century for the Bishops of Winchester and mostly destroyed by fire in 1814, keep a wall of the Great Hall with a rose window in its west gable and can be viewed from the pavement. 4
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Family Photographer in Southwark, FAQs
Yes. In Southwark that session belongs in your own home instead of a park or our room, because a newborn is on a feed and sleep cycle no venue improves. We photograph the older children with the baby early, while they still find it interesting, then release them and concentrate on the baby once the room has quietened down again.
Yes. A first-year package can run from a newborn session through sitting up and first steps to a cake smash on the first birthday. Seen together, the sessions show how fast that first year goes.
It is, but from Southwark the answer is usually still no, and better said outright. Northwood sits across the whole city, and a cross-London trip with a toddler and a pram burns more patience than the session itself will use. Southwark Park or your own front room delivers the same pictures without spending the child's good hour on a train.
Mostly, and Southwark Park is the reason. A Victorian layout gives children real destinations, a lake and a rose garden, so there is somewhere to be heading and something to look at instead of an instruction to stand still. We photograph what happens between those points. The one arranged frame is taken early and quickly, then everybody is let go.
Because the ground gets chosen by the month. In summer we use whatever shade Southwark Park offers, in winter the open parts where light still reaches, and the rose garden only when it is genuinely in flower. On a wet day light comes into your front room instead. Either way the session stays in the borough, and nobody crosses London pushing a pram.
Serving Southwark
A family photographer near Southwark
Southwark is about 15 miles from Northwood, and we make that trip so your family session can happen in a park or room you already know. It sits close to Lambeth and Lewisham, which we cover too.
Southwark Park on Gomm Road, SE16, covers 63 acres, with a boating lake, a bandstand and the Ada Salter Garden, which gives children plenty to head towards. Potters Fields Park, on the south bank between City Hall and Tower Bridge, is another option for a family session by the river. When a session suits an outdoor setting, the Bankside riverfront by Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe theatre is another option.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Southwark. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Barnet, Newham, Tower Hamlets, the City of London and Kingston upon Thames.
A family session in Southwark is shaped by the plan of Southwark Park more than by the forecast. A Victorian layout means a circuit of destinations, a lake at one point and a rose garden at another, joined by deliberate walking. Two things follow for anybody turning up with a pram and a grandparent. The first is welcome: there is a route between the interesting parts, so wheels and unsteady feet are not being sent across open turf. The second is a warning. Distance between destinations gets paid for out of a young child's patience, and that budget does not stretch. A four year old will spend the lot walking if allowed, leaving nothing by the time a camera appears. Tree cover is the other trap, wherever the park offers it. Broken sun coming through leaves prints in patches across a face, and no editing afterwards removes it. Solid shade works and clean open sky works; the boundary between them, which is where people instinctively stand, is the one place that does not. The lake settles the rest. Water and a toddler need a grown-up positioned between them for the whole session, and once that adult is placed, everybody else arranges around them, which is why the group ends up standing where it does. A bench within reach counts for more than the view does, because a grandparent with a seat close by will stay for the whole hour instead of the first twenty minutes of it.
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How it works
On-location photography in Southwark
We travel to Southwark from Northwood, about 15 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. A family session in Southwark would normally be outdoors or at home, with any lighting brought with us.
Family sessions are photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, based in Northwood since 2001 and holder of five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Not in Southwark? See family photography across South London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across South London.
Popular sessions
Families in Southwark often book around a milestone: a maternity photoshoot before the birth, a cake smash photoshoot near Southwark at one, christening photography on the day, a birthday photoshoot later on, and a Christmas photoshoot for the cards each December.
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