Portrait Photographer in Kensington and Chelsea
Portraits for individuals, couples and small groups in Kensington and Chelsea, on location in places such as Holland Park.
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Portraits in Holland Park, on the King's Road · free consultation
Kensington and Chelsea and nearby
Personal and graduation portraits, from Holland Park to the King's Road
- What is included: A conversation about the style you like before the camera comes out, unhurried direction during the sitting, then a private gallery and natural retouching on the portraits you choose; prints, frames and albums can be ordered afterwards.
- Where we photograph in Kensington and Chelsea: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Holland Park, St Luke's Gardens or Emslie Horniman's Pleasance. We travel from Northwood, about 11 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- 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 Kensington and Chelsea.
A sitting takes about an hour. We walk the ground before anything is switched on, settle on two positions, and open at the easier of them so the first frames are not the ones being judged. Ten minutes in, most people have stopped thinking about the camera, and that is when the work starts.
Proofs reach you inside a week. The frames you pick are retouched to the point a good mirror would forgive and no further, so skin keeps its texture and no feature is reshaped. Files arrive sized for a screen and sized for framing.
See recent work and how a sitting runs, from booking to prints, on our portrait sessions near Kensington and Chelsea page.
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My two sisters and I ‘ the golden girls’ had a great, hilarious photo session. Kaushik is very professional and took some amazing photos especially when we were laughing so much trying to get up from the floor. Can’t wait to see ‘air brushed’ version. Well at 75 you need a little help. Definitely recommend Kashuik. He enjoyed our craziness!
I had a photoshoot recently and it was such a great experience. Everyone was lovely and made us comfortable. The pictures looks great as well I am very pleased. I will definitely come back when the opportunity arises again,
Kaushik was a great help and took some great photos for my partner and I. I would highly recommend for all your photography needs.
Portraits across the royal borough
A portrait photographer covering Kensington and Chelsea
We give direction one small instruction at a time, because five adjustments at once is how a sitter ends up looking like a shop mannequin. Each face is lit to flatter, with the setup adjusted for skin tone, glasses and features.
Bring a few outfits and we will help you choose what photographs best in the light on the day. Before the day we can advise on wardrobe, colours and preparation, so you arrive for your Kensington and Chelsea sitting ready and relaxed.
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Terracotta, gardens and shopfronts: portrait backdrops in the royal borough
For a portrait here, the choice is between museum terracotta, park greenery and King's Road shopfronts, and the time of day decides which will be best lit. Every backdrop below is described from the published source linked with it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Emslie Horniman's Pleasance in Kensal Town, given to the public in 1911, contains a restored formal garden designed by Charles Voysey and is the official launch point for Notting Hill Carnival. 1
- Cremorne Gardens on Lots Road (SW10) sit on the north bank of the Thames with river views and have a waterplay splashpad and table tennis. 2
- The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road, opened in 1881, was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in a Romanesque style clad in terracotta, and its Hintze Hall displays a blue whale skeleton nicknamed Hope. 3
- King's Road runs just under two miles from Sloane Square through Chelsea, was a private road used by Charles II until 1830, and is Chelsea's main shopping street, home to Peter Jones and the Saatchi Gallery. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Kensington and Chelsea, FAQs
Yes, and a solo sitting in the borough can be as simple as an hour in Holland Park. An individual sitting is entirely about you, with gentle direction so you look relaxed, whether we are in Holland Park. Whether it is for a profile, a gift or just for you, the hour is planned so none of it is wasted.
Yes, we do. A personal-branding session is built around how you want to be seen, be that approachable, creative or authoritative, and in the borough Kensington High Street or the King's Road can give it a working, urban backdrop. You leave with a varied set of confident images for your website and profiles, lit to flatter whether we are outdoors.
Yes. We photograph portraits at every age, little ones included. Younger sitters set the pace, and we shape the session around them, with the playgrounds of Holland Park close by for a break. One child, siblings or a small group, we keep things light and playful so the pictures feel warm.
Yes, and Kensington and Chelsea has plenty of settings for one. Two people photograph better standing than sitting, because sitting fixes the height difference between you and standing lets us adjust it. Allow an hour. We meet at a named gate or a doorway rather than a postcode, and if either of you has a side you dislike, say so at the beginning instead of after fifty frames.
That is the default in Kensington and Chelsea, not the exception. We agree the location when you book and send the exact meeting point the evening before, so nobody is circling a square looking for the other. Everything needed travels in with us, including lighting for a dull day. If the weather turns unusable we move the date instead of pushing on, and the new one is settled before we leave.
Serving Kensington and Chelsea
A portrait photographer near Kensington and Chelsea
About 11 miles from Northwood, Kensington and Chelsea offers portrait settings from Holland Park to the King's Road. It sits close to Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham, which we cover too. Individuals, couples and small groups can sit on location, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
In Holland Park, the Grade I listed Orangery stands within a rose garden, and the Kyoto Garden dates from the Japan Festival in London in 1992. High Street Kensington, South Kensington and Sloane Square stations make it easy to meet at a named gate or doorway, and South Kensington is on the Piccadilly line as well as the Circle and District. Sessions on location near Kensington and Chelsea can use Holland Park, with The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road close at hand.
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A garden square is a rectangle of planting with tall terraces standing round all four sides of it, and that enclosure shapes a sitting far more than the planting does. The working effect is that the sun clears the roofline late and drops behind it early, so the hours in which a square is genuinely lit are fewer than the hours of daylight, and they bunch around the middle of the day. That is awkward, because the middle of the day is when an enclosed square is at its worst: light arrives almost straight down through the strip of sky overhead, sets shadow into the eye sockets and under the nose, and turns a rested face into a tired one. There are two ways round it. Grey weather removes the problem outright and is worth booking towards rather than merely tolerating. On a bright day we work at the corners and the openings, where the sky is wider and a sunlit frontage opposite can push light back sideways into the face. The background here is architecture, not foliage: flat fronts, repeated windows, long straight verticals. Clothing carrying a busy pattern of its own competes with that repetition and loses, and a loose jacket gives the eye something to measure against every one of those plumb lines behind it. Plain cloth with some weight in it, cut close, is what survives in front of a Georgian terrace. The same holds at the collar on a head and shoulders frame: a stiff one keeps its shape against straight lines, a soft one folds and reads as untidy rather than relaxed.
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How it works
On-location photography in Kensington and Chelsea
For Kensington and Chelsea, about 11 miles from Northwood, we work on location. For a portrait that usually means Holland Park, a square near your home or your own rooms, and we bring everything needed with us.
Your portrait is taken by Kaushik Bathia himself, a fellow of the BIPP and the MPA with five European Kodak Gold Awards, who has worked from Northwood since 2001.
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