At home or outdoors
Outdoor sittings on Victoria Park's lawns, or the Northwood room when the weather refuses to cooperate.
Portrait Photographer in Hackney
Hackney and nearby
Portraits in Hackney
- What is included: Guidance on pose and expression throughout, more than one set-up, a private online gallery after the shoot, and natural retouching on each chosen portrait, delivered for screen and for print.
- Where we photograph in Hackney: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Clissold Park, London Fields or Springfield Park. We travel from Northwood, about 16 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- Booking: Call 07956 505383, send a WhatsApp message to the same number, or use the enquiry form on this page.
We speak before the date and settle location, meeting point, time of day and what to bring, so the morning of the sitting involves no decisions at all.
The sitting itself is slow and mostly conversation, because the frames worth keeping turn up once the novelty has worn off. The edit corrects colour and contrast and leaves your face alone; nobody comes back looking smoothed. Finished pictures arrive in a private gallery, prepared small for screens and large enough to print properly.
Our main page for a portrait photographer near Hackney sets out every session type and what each sitting includes.
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An amazing experience from start to finish. The photographer was professional, friendly, and made us feel completely at ease. The photos perfectly captured genuine moments between us and turned out even better than we expected. Highly recommend for couples looking for high-quality photography.
I did a fabulous photoshoot with Kaushik and thoroughly enjoyed it! I was very nervous, but he made me feel at ease! I will hopefully return for another one at a later date!
Kaushik has been absolutely fantastic!! I called him to book for a photoshoot session for my parents anniversary, last minute with just one day in advance. he was super responsive and was able to accommodate. He was also understanding when they were running late. Even more impressive is that he put my parents at ease and was able to get great shots, its their first photoshoot and it turned out great!
What we offer
Portrait photography in Hackney
Couples and pairs
Individuals, couples and pairs photographed unhurried, with background chosen for separation rather than for a recognisable view.
Clothing advice
One sitting, several looks: clothing and framing change while the lighting stays consistent throughout the hour.
Local and experienced
Portrait sittings for Hackney, planned in advance
We plan clothes and colours with you in advance, whether the sitting is outdoors. Experience says the strongest frame tends to come about two-thirds of the way through, once nerves have gone and shoulders have dropped.
A sitting can be one simple portrait or a longer session with several looks and setups. For actors and models we build a portfolio with a range of looks and expressions, from clean commercial frames to more characterful ones.
Recent work
On-location portraits
Hackney landmarks and parks for portrait light
Prefer daylight to the Northwood studio? These Hackney landmarks and parks offer backdrops for an outdoor portrait. Every entry carries a link to where the details come from. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- The Hackney Empire on Mare Street is a Grade II* listed theatre by Frank Matcham that opened on 9 December 1901 and seats 1,275. 1
- Victoria Park, on Hackney's southern border in Tower Hamlets, covers 86.18 hectares and opened to the public in 1845. 2
- Sutton House and Breaker's Yard. Sutton House on Homerton High Street was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir as his family home and is cared for by the National Trust, with Breaker's Yard, a garden on a former car scrapyard, beside it. 3
- Hackney Central and Hackney Downs. Hackney Central is on the London Overground's Mildmay line in fare zone 2, with an out-of-station interchange to Hackney Downs, which is on the Weaver line and served by Greater Anglia trains between Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Hackney, FAQs
Because you get a decision rather than a menu. For Hackney the plan is Victoria Park, booked for the last couple of hours before sunset instead of the middle of the afternoon, one agreed meeting point, and roughly an hour of photography. If the forecast collapses we move the date or move to Northwood rather than make flat pictures in grey light.
Yes, happily. A session around Hackney can combine individual portraits with a few couple or group frames, and that slots easily into the time. Tell us beforehand who is coming and we will plan the light and looks for everyone.
Please do. Two or three outfits add variety, and the sitting allows time to change.
Yes, and couples are easier outdoors than individuals, because two people have something to do with their hands. In Hackney we would work the lake paths at Victoria Park, photographing while you talk instead of asking for held poses, then take three or four still frames near the end once the camera has become boring. Bring one change of top between you.
Serving Hackney
A portrait photographer near Hackney
We travel to all parts of Hackney for portrait sittings. It sits close to Islington and Tower Hamlets, which we cover too. Portraits can be made in Hackney; if we come to you, travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Hackney Central, on the Mildmay line, has an out-of-station interchange with Hackney Downs on the Weaver line, so a meeting point near either station is easy to reach. Victoria Park, on the borough's southern edge, opened to the public in 1845, and Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, opened in 1889, is another option.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Hackney. Explore the rest: we also cover portrait photography across London, including Hammersmith and Fulham, Merton, Haringey, Redbridge, Lambeth and Greenwich.
Victoria Park would make a good base for a Hackney sitting, and its age matters more than its size. Trees that old are fully grown, so the shade along a lawn edge arrives as a hard boundary instead of the broken dapple that young planting gives. Stand somebody half in and half out of it and a bright stripe crosses one cheek, and no amount of editing takes that out convincingly. Step right inside the boundary and turn the face back out towards the grass, and the lawn becomes the light source, sending an even wash upwards with no hot edge on it anywhere. The lakes change what sits behind a head rather than what falls on it. Water registers as one large plain area from any distance, so it empties a background out completely, which is precisely the opposite of what the borough's streets do. Independent shopfronts, market stalls and painted frontages are all detail at head height, and detail at head height keeps dragging the eye around the frame. If that texture is what you want, it belongs a long way back and thrown out of focus rather than sitting behind a shoulder. The Hackney Empire is the extreme case worth naming: an ornate Edwardian frontage is a surface that beats a human face at close range every time, so we would keep it at distance if it features at all. Clothing then follows from whichever background has won. Pale grey and white sink straight into open water, so mid tones hold their edge better there, while a loud painted street asks for plain, unpatterned cloth.
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How it works
On-location photography in Hackney
We travel to Hackney from Northwood, about 16 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. Outdoor portraits can be taken in Victoria Park, Clissold Park or London Fields, and we bring light for indoor sittings at home.
Portrait sittings are photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and won five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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Popular sessions
Portrait sessions for Hackney come in many forms: couples and engagement photoshoots, graduation portraits near Hackney, model and actor portfolios, birthday photoshoots and Christmas portraits.
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