Your own front room if it rains
Family sessions on Wandsworth Common, or at home when the weather or a baby says otherwise.
Family Photographer in Wandsworth
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Family sessions on Wandsworth Common, in Battersea Park or at home · free consultation
Wandsworth and nearby
A family photographer for Wandsworth
- 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 Wandsworth: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Battersea Park, Wandsworth Common or Wandsworth Park. We travel from Northwood, about 14 miles away. Newborn sessions can be photographed at your home, or at the Northwood studio if you prefer.
- How to book: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
Beforehand we ask for a headcount, the ages, and the one photograph that matters most to you, then plan an order around it and send that over, so no decisions are left to be made standing on wet grass.
The session itself runs in short pushes with gaps between them, and it ends when the children are finished, not when a clock says so. Edited images go to everybody who was there, in one album, so nobody has to chase a relative for copies.
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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.
We recently did a family photoshoot with our 8 months old daughter, and it was such a lovely experience. Kaushik was brilliant with her, so patient and playful, and he managed to get so many genuine smiles from her, which made a huge difference. He made us feel really comfortable throughout the shoot and never rushed us.
What we offer
Family photography in Wandsworth
Grandparents included
Short, unfussy and led by the children, with grandparents photographed early while they are still comfortable.
Everyone in one frame
Everyone who was there gets the same edited gallery, at print size and for sending on.
Family sessions planned around the common and your home
From newborn weeks to teenage years in Wandsworth
When a newborn is involved, keeping the baby safe comes before any picture. At a newborn session in your home a hand stays on the baby at all times, the room is kept warm, and nothing unsupported is attempted. Teenagers are asked rather than told and kept in the loop like the adults, which usually brings even a reluctant one round.
Sessions can be at home, under the plane trees in Wandsworth Park, on the common. Sitting, crawling and walking each deserve their own session, because a baby looks different at every stage of that first year.
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Moments from our family sessions
Commons, parks and riverside spots for Wandsworth families
Toddlers need somewhere to run, so a Wandsworth family session would be planned around open grass, a path for the pram and shade for the youngest. Each of these places in and around Wandsworth is described from the published source linked below it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Battersea Park is a 200-acre Victorian park, built between 1854 and 1870, with a riverside promenade, a large lake and many notable trees. 1
- Wandsworth Town Hall marbled hall and courtyard. After a Town Hall ceremony, couples may take photographs in the art deco marbled hall with its sweeping stairway, in the garden, and in the courtyard with its fountain and stepped main entrance. 2
- Battersea Power Station, a Grade II* listed former coal-fired power station, reopened to the public in October 2022 after redevelopment into shops, restaurants and offices occupied by Apple and others. 3
- Fred Wells Gardens on Vicarage Crescent, Battersea, has toddler and junior playgrounds and a tennis court on a site that was a railway station from 1863 to 1940 and a greyhound racing track between the wars. 4
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Good to know
Family Photographer in Wandsworth, FAQs
Yes, a well-behaved dog is welcome, and because Wandsworth Common has separate dog control maps for its SW11 and SW18 sides, we would check them before choosing a spot. Let us know when you book so we can plan the order of shots around the dog.
Yes. We travel to Wandsworth from Northwood. It is a long drive from Northwood, though, and that changes one practical thing: sessions there get booked with a margin built in, so traffic cannot eat the light we planned around. Give us a start time that suits the children rather than our diary, and tell us which entrance you will be walking in from.
Babies cry, and it does not spoil a session. Tears, squirming and sudden sleepiness are expected, so we just stop, help settle your little one and pick up where we left off. A few quiet minutes rarely shows in the finished set.
Choose two or three tones and let everyone land somewhere inside them; a family in identical outfits photographs as a uniform. Mid tones hold up well against the greens of the common, and one person in bright white pulls every eye in the frame. Footwear matters more than the clothes do, because the ground under the trees stays soft and cold feet end sessions early.
A cake smash marks a first birthday: your one-year-old gets a cake to prod, squash and taste. Set up by a window in your own front room, we photograph the first wary poke through to the full, happy mess.
Serving Wandsworth
A family photographer near Wandsworth
We photograph family sessions across London, and we travel to Wandsworth (Greater London) from Northwood, about 14 miles away. It sits close to Lambeth and Merton, which we cover too.
Wandsworth Park is a Grade II listed Edwardian park with an avenue of London plane trees, and Battersea Park offers 200 acres with a riverside promenade and a large lake. Southside on Wandsworth High Street, with its shops, cinema and restaurants, is handy for lunch before or after a session. Children can roam the heath and woods of Wandsworth Common between frames, and the restored Battersea Power Station on the riverfront makes a well-known backdrop for a family picture on the way home.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Wandsworth. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Lewisham, Ealing and Kensington and Chelsea.
A family session in Wandsworth runs on the common, and the geography of that matters more than the photography. It is a large open green, generous for a group and unhelpful for a pram: the walk between wherever the car ends up and the ground worth photographing on is what most often spends a small child's goodwill before a single frame exists. So the spot gets chosen from the gate inwards, not from the best light backwards. A woodland edge near an entrance will do nearly everything a clearing in the interior does, and nobody has to haul a toddler across half the green to reach it. The same logic decides whether grandparents last the session. A bench within sight of where we are standing is the difference between three generations photographed together and two, and a minute spent looking settles it. Children under about five hand over one decent stretch of cooperation and then it is spent, so the arranged group frame gets taken first rather than kept for the end, and the loose frames come afterwards once the pressure is off. Weather is the honest problem here. Northwood is too far to serve as a wet-weather fallback for a family with young children, so a session that moves indoors moves into your own home instead. That is no compromise: a front room with one large window, and the furniture nearest it pushed back, photographs a baby better than a cold common ever will.
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Guides
Family guides for Wandsworth
A little reading for parents before a session on Wandsworth Common or in Battersea Park.
Coordinating family outfits for Battersea Park or the common
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How it works
On-location photography in Wandsworth
We travel to Wandsworth from Northwood, about 14 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. For a family that usually means your home, Wandsworth Common or Battersea Park, with lighting brought in if a room is dark.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA: established 2001, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Not in Wandsworth? See family photography across South London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across South London.
Popular sessions
Families in Wandsworth often book around a milestone: a maternity photoshoot before the birth, a cake smash photoshoot near Wandsworth 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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