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Church Row and Flask Walk for portraits with Georgian brick, doorways and ironwork behind you.
Portrait Photographer in Hampstead
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We come to you · Hampstead portraits taken where you are
Serving Hampstead
Beautiful portrait photography in Hampstead
- Included in the session: 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 Hampstead: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Hampstead Heath, Church Row or Bathing ponds and lido. We travel from Northwood, about 10 miles away. If you would ever rather come to us, the Northwood studio is an option.
- How to book: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
Belsize Park and West Hampstead are planned the same way. Photography anywhere on the Heath needs a City of London permit, so the licence is settled before the date is fixed.
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We were a little nervous as it was our first photo shoot but Kaushik was very friendly and quickly had our nerves calmed with his charming personality. A great all round experience and we have some fab professional photos that we are very happy with. Highly recommended, 5 Stars :)
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 Hampstead
Garden portraits
Edwardian pergola walkways, booked through the City of London's two-hour weekday licence for handheld portrait work.
Local and experienced
Relaxed direction, professional lighting
Posing is guided throughout, so there is never a moment of standing there wondering what to do. A typical sitting moves through a few looks and settings, mixing open shade with brighter light, and builds from simple frames towards more expressive ones.
Once the sitting is over, you open an online gallery and choose the portraits you like at leisure. Chosen portraits are retouched with a light hand so you still look like yourself, then supplied as web-ready and print-ready files, and prints, frames, canvases or an album can be ordered from them.
Recent work
From our recent portrait sessions
Hampstead landmarks and open spaces for portraits
Around Hampstead, an outdoor portrait turns on where the light falls, what sits behind you and how easily the spot can be reached. Here are a few places in and around Hampstead, described from published sources. If your portrait is taken in Hampstead rather than Northwood, the travel element appears in the written quote you receive before booking. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Keats House in Keats Grove is the former Wentworth Place, where John Keats lodged from 1818 to 1820 and where, according to his friend Charles Brown, 'Ode to a Nightingale' was written under a plum tree in the garden. 1
- Bathing ponds and lido. Hampstead Heath has three natural bathing ponds and a 60-metre lido. 2
- 2 Willow Road, completed in 1939, is one of a terrace of three houses designed by the Modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger, who lived there until 1987; the National Trust has managed it since 1995. 3
- Church Row, running from Frognal to Heath Street with St John-at-Hampstead at its west end, is a tree-lined street of largely listed early 18th-century houses that the Pevsner guide called 'the best street in Hampstead'. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Hampstead, FAQs
Length depends on what you want from it. When you book, tell us how many looks and settings you have in mind and we will give you a realistic time, so nobody feels rushed and the light is used well.
A portrait price for Hampstead is given on request, by phone or on WhatsApp.
Yes. Children's portraits are run at the child's pace, with guided posing that feels more like a game than a list of instructions. Bring a favourite toy and a snack for the gaps.
Serving Hampstead
A portrait photographer near Hampstead
Hampstead lies about 10 miles from Northwood, and portrait sittings can be arranged there or at other spots around Greater London. It sits close to Belsize Park and West Hampstead, which we cover too.
Hampstead, a village long tied to writers, artists and thinkers, offers portrait backdrops with real history behind them. Its winding Georgian lanes climb towards the Heath, so one portrait walk can move from old doorways to open grassland. Arriving by the Northern line, note that Hampstead station has the deepest platforms on the Underground, so allow a few spare minutes before your sitting. Sessions on location near Hampstead can use the Edwardian Hill Garden and Pergola, with Hampstead Heath and the neoclassical Kenwood House on its northern edge close at hand.
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Explore the rest: we also cover portrait photography across Greater London, including Cockfosters, Pinner, Harrow, Golders Green, West Harrow and Eastcote.
Guides
Portrait guides for Hampstead
Short journal reads to help you get ready for portraits in Hampstead.
How it works
Hampstead sessions, on location
We are based in Northwood, about 10 miles from Hampstead, so a portrait sitting there would normally be outdoors or at your home. Portraits are photographed on location, with lighting brought in as needed.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA: established 2001, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Popular sessions
Portrait sessions for Hampstead come in many forms: couples and engagement photoshoots, graduation portraits near Hampstead, model and actor portfolios, birthday photoshoots and Christmas portraits.
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