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Location portraits across Wandsworth, worked on the common or at your own address, with the light chosen first.
Portrait Photographer in Wandsworth
Portrait photography for Wandsworth, on the common, in Wandsworth Park or at home, with fine-art prints, frames and albums to follow.
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We come to you · Portrait sittings by the Wandsworth riverside · free consultation
Wandsworth and nearby
Portrait sittings on Wandsworth Common or at home
- What the session includes: 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 Wandsworth: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Wandsworth Town Hall marbled hall and courtyard, Battersea Park or Wandsworth Common. We travel from Northwood, about 14 miles away. If you would ever rather come to us, the Northwood studio is an option.
- To book: Use the form at the end of this page, or call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, and we will arrange a date and place in Wandsworth.
Before the day we settle a meeting place at one of the common's entrances, and a start time set by the light instead of by your diary. A sitting takes about ninety minutes; most of it goes on small moves between three or four positions rather than on walking.
Editing is done only on frames you have chosen. They land in a private album at two resolutions, one big enough for a wall print and one for a phone, and nothing you rejected survives the cut.
Our main page for a portrait photographer near Wandsworth sets out every session type and what each sitting includes.
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Kaushik did a great job in taking both formal and informal portrait photos. He is an enthusiastic professional photographer who made me feel at ease. The photographs were excellent and have been greatly admired.
Kaushik was a great help and took some great photos for my partner and I. I would highly recommend for all your photography needs.
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,
What we offer
Portrait photography in Wandsworth
Couples and pairs
Individuals, couples and small groups photographed in short blocks, so nobody has to hold a pose.
Edited files delivered
Edited frames delivered in a private album, at print resolution and at a size suiting a phone.
Portraits planned around the light on the common
Relaxed direction, professional lighting
A personal-branding portrait starts from how you want to come across, approachable or authoritative, and one frame by Battersea Power Station, a Grade II* listed landmark, can place you firmly in London. Good lighting and a well-chosen backdrop carry much of the work, leaving you free to relax.
Children, parents and grandparents can all be photographed within one portrait sitting, though the youngest are always taken first while their patience is still holding.
Recent work
From our recent portrait sessions
Parks, brewery and Town Hall settings for a Wandsworth portrait
In Wandsworth we would begin by choosing between green, water and brick, whether that means the plane avenue in Wandsworth Park or the old brewery quarter by the river. Every note below comes from a published source, linked so you can check the details before we pick a spot together. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Ram Brewery. Young & Co brewed at the Ram Brewery between Wandsworth town centre and the river until September 2006, and Sambrook's Brewery moved brewing onto the site in 2020. 1
- Battersea Park is a 200-acre Victorian park, built between 1854 and 1870, with a riverside promenade, a large lake and many notable trees. 2
- 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. 3
- 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. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Wandsworth, FAQs
Yes. As well as digital files, we offer fine prints, framed portraits, canvases and hand-finished albums. A portrait framed on the wall or bound in an album gets enjoyed far more than one left on a phone.
Yes. Sitters of any age are welcome, and with younger ones we let them set the pace. Single children, couples and small groups all get a light-hearted sitting, so the results look warm and unforced.
Yes, and in Wandsworth that is the natural choice. The common gives open green, woodland and water inside one walk, so a single meeting point covers several quite different backgrounds. What the ground has to offer is somewhere level to stand and something to put behind you. What you need to bring is footwear you do not mind muddying, since the wooded parts stay damp well after the open paths look dry.
For Wandsworth the default runs the other way: we travel out to you. Give us your address and the nearest place a car can stop, because stands and lighting are carried in by hand.
Serving Wandsworth
A portrait photographer near Wandsworth
We photograph portrait 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 Common is common land of medieval origin with extra legal protection, and its woods, lakes and heath give a sitting several backgrounds in one walk. For an urban alternative, the Ram Brewery site between Wandsworth town centre and the river, where Young & Co brewed until September 2006, has had Sambrook's Brewery brewing on it since 2020. Sessions on location near Wandsworth can use Wandsworth Common, with the restored Battersea Power Station on the borough's riverfront close at hand.
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Portrait guides for Wandsworth
Some reading for before your portrait sitting in Wandsworth.
Wandsworth Common offers a sitting two grounds rather than one, and choosing between them is really a decision about how hard the light is that day. The open green has nothing overhead, so in summer it wants either the early part of the morning or the hour before dusk; between those, the sun is high enough to press a hard line beneath the nose and to hollow the eyes out. The woodland does the opposite job badly. A canopy scatters light, but it also drops bright coins of sun across a face, and a face that is half in sun and half in leaf shade cannot be rescued in the edit. The reliable ground is the boundary between the two, a pace or so inside the shade with the open green in front working as fill. The lakes complicate this in a way worth knowing. An overcast sky reflected off flat water is a broad low source and it flatters a face, but on a clear day the same water turns hard and specular and finds its way into the frame as a glare behind the head. Season swings the whole argument. From November the bare canopy lets light through and the wooded parts photograph open and graphic, so the trees become usable at any hour; by late spring the leaf cover is dense and open ground is the brighter option. Clothing follows from that. Mid greens and olives sink into summer foliage, so charcoal, navy, rust and cream are what hold a sitter clear of it.
Clothes that suit a Wandsworth park or riverside portrait
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How it works
On-location photography in Wandsworth
For Wandsworth, about 14 miles from Northwood, we work on location. For a portrait that means Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth Park or your own home, with lights carried in when needed.
Your portrait is made by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, in practice at Northwood since 2001 and holder of five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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