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Pet Photographer in Southwark
Portraits of you and your pet in Southwark, on a local walk, at home.
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Pet portraits on a Southwark walk or at home, after a free consultation
Southwark and nearby
Pet photography in Southwark, indoors and out
- What is included: A patient, treat-friendly session where your pet sets the pace, with or without you in the frame, and the chosen portraits finished as prints, framed pieces or canvases if you want them on the wall.
- Where we photograph in Southwark: Your home or garden, or a walk at Potters Fields Park, Southwark Park or Burgess Park. We travel from Northwood, about 15 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- Booking: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
Sessions stay short deliberately, run in bursts with real pauses between them, and we stop as soon as interest runs out rather than because a clock says otherwise. A favourite toy and whatever treats work stay with the owner, just outside the frame.
We work from floor height throughout, which means kneeling on whatever surface is going. You get the finished set back with the frames you choose worked on individually. A second animal in the household is photographed on the same visit.
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Fantastic photographer . Relaxed atmosphere and even made my young children laugh and look at the camera ( which they normally don’t do ) . Amazing results ! Would highly recommend.
In one word "AWESOME" We arranged a family photo shoot for six, four children and two adults.. the whole family was made to feel very comfortable (even allowing a change of clothes from smart to casual) and the children although apprehensive at first (being children) were literally in hysterics by the time we left... would definitely HIGHLY RECOMMEND and use again when everyones a little older...
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
Pet photography in Southwark
Cats and small animals
Cats, rabbits and smaller companions photographed inside the house, with lighting carried in to them.
Older and nervous pets
Short sessions run at the pace the animal chooses, nervous and elderly pets kept comfortably at home.
Why choose us
Photographing pets across London
We approach a working dog differently from a house pet. A gundog answers to commands, whereas a family dog is more likely to answer to its name and a squeaky toy. With animals you need quick reflexes, ready for the yawn, the head tilt and the ears going up.
We take the animal alone and with you, since the owner frames are the ones people are most glad of later. Including the pet in a family portrait puts everyone, on two legs or four, in the same frame.
Recent work
Dogs, cats and small pets from our portfolio
Southwark parks and dog rules for a pet session
We would pick a park where your dog can explore on a long lead, check the local byelaws beforehand, and keep away from the busiest paths so a nervous animal stays settled. Every park note, dog rules included, is summarised from the council or reference page linked beside it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Burgess Park, Southwark's largest park at 56 hectares, was built between the 1950s and 1980s on land once covered by factories, streets and the Surrey Canal, and dogs must be on leads and kept out of the water at its fishing lake and on leads in Chumleigh Gardens. 1
- The George Inn at 77 Borough High Street is a Grade I listed 17th-century coaching inn, the surviving south range of a galleried yard, with two tiers of timber galleries on its west half. 2
- Red Cross Garden in Borough was built with its neighbouring cottages in 1886 to designs by Octavia Hill, the social reformer and National Trust co-founder, and after Bankside Open Spaces Trust restored its Victorian layout it was reopened by the Princess Royal in 2006. 3
- Dogs in Southwark parks. Southwark's parks have dog byelaws and control orders that can require dogs on leads, keep dogs out of set areas or cap numbers, and walkers at One Tree Hill nature reserve are limited to four dogs at a time. 4
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Pet Photographer in Southwark, FAQs
The business has been running since 2001, and every pet session is shaped around the animal in front of the camera. Dogs, cats, horses and small pets of every age and character are welcome, and a calm, gentle approach gives nervous animals time to relax.
Certainly. We can photograph two or more pets from the same Southwark home, both as a group and individually. A cat and dog together is quite possible; it just takes patience to catch them both at the right moment. One helper per animal makes a real difference.
Yes, and for an older animal in Southwark we would come to the house rather than the park. A stiff dog should not have to negotiate traffic and unfamiliar ground first. We work on floors it already uses, keep the whole thing brief, and photograph it lying down as readily as standing, which is usually nearer the truth of the animal anyway.
Because the ground is decided before we set out. A dog you trust off the lead goes to Southwark Park; if recall is not dependable it stays attached and we work in close, which changes nothing about the pictures. The park sits in central London, so the way in and the roads around it matter far more than the middle of it does.
You get a gallery of carefully edited photographs that show your pet as you know it. Prints, framed pictures and canvases can then be ordered from it for the wall. Turnaround is quick, so the wait to see the photos is short.
Serving Southwark
A pet photographer near Southwark
Pet sessions take us across London, and for Southwark the travel from Northwood appears in your written quote before you book. It sits close to Lambeth and Lewisham, which we cover too.
Southwark's parks have dog byelaws and control orders that can require leads, keep dogs out of set areas or cap numbers, so we would check the rules for the park before your session. Southwark Park on Gomm Road, SE16, has 63 acres and a boating lake, and Potters Fields Park sits on the river between City Hall and Tower Bridge. Sessions on location can use Southwark Park, or the Bankside riverfront by Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe theatre for a dog that copes with crowds.
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Coat colour decides the plan here, and a lake sharpens the decision. Water in daylight is a bright surface, so a black dog standing in front of it becomes a shape the camera cannot hold together: open up for the coat and the water goes blank, protect the water and the dog reduces to a silhouette. The escape route is the background, not the settings. Southwark Park carries planted beds as well as open water, and a dark animal placed against deep green gets a background near enough its own brightness that the coat can be lifted with nothing behind it burning out. Pale dogs have the reverse trouble and are better served at the water. Height is the other consideration. Photographed from standing, a dog is mostly a back and a skull, and the result reads as a record of an animal rather than a portrait of one. Getting the lens down to where its eyes actually sit changes that completely, and it separates the pictures owners keep from the ones they scroll past. An animal that is old, stiff or easily rattled belongs at the address where it lives, on flooring it already trusts. None of that requires a park, and an indoor floor stays predictable in a way that a public path in central London never manages on a weekend afternoon. Stiff hips are an argument for working in one room, never an argument for skipping the session.
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How it works
Pet sessions at home or in the park in Southwark
We are based in Northwood, about 15 miles from Southwark, so a pet session there would normally be outdoors or at your home. Pet sessions are photographed on location, with lighting brought in as needed.
Pet sessions are photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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Pets are welcome at a Christmas family photoshoot too, and the whole family can be photographed together in a family session.
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