For East London teams
Most of my Shoreditch headshot bookings come from startups, agencies and creative studios working out of converted warehouses around Old Street and Rivington Street. A handful come from bigger companies with a floor in one of the newer blocks off Curtain Road or Redchurch Street. The buildings look great and shoot badly: exposed brick eats light, and meeting rooms in places like the Old Truman Brewery tend to have glass walls on two sides, so a backdrop has nowhere to hide the reflections.
I bring my own backdrop, stands and lighting, so none of that is your problem to solve. Headshots from £150 cover an individual sitting; most East London bookings are teams, and I’ll ask in advance for a room with a solid wall, a plug socket and enough floor space to set up three metres back from your first sitter. If your office genuinely doesn’t have that room, say so early and I’ll suggest somewhere else rather than turn up and improvise.
What you get
Individual sittings get 15 to 20 minutes, two or three backdrop or lighting setups, and one retouched image delivered within 48 hours. Team sittings move faster once the room is set up: I can get through twelve to fifteen people an hour, each with a short pose change and a couple of frames to pick from. Everyone gets one retouched final image; extra retouched images or extra poses cost more, and I’ll quote that on the call rather than guess at it here.
Pricing drops as the group grows, because setup time is fixed and shooting time per person falls. See full pricing across every service for everything else I shoot.
| Group size | Price per person |
|---|---|
| Individual sitting | £150 |
| 2–5 people | £130 |
| 6–9 people | £100 |
| 10+ people | £60–£110 |
Being local: what it changes
My studio sits in EC2A, so getting to most Shoreditch offices is fifteen minutes on foot with a kit trolley, not a van booking and a search for a loading bay. When somebody drops out of a team shoot the morning it’s happening, I can usually still make it, which isn’t true if I’m crossing London from a studio in Zone 4. No congestion charge, no ULEZ to think about, no argument with a building’s parking policy, because I’m not parking.
I’ll give you the honest version too: being local doesn’t make the photographs better. A good headshot in Shoreditch looks the same as a good headshot shot by someone who drove in from Croydon. What proximity actually buys you is cheaper logistics and easier rescheduling, not superior craft, and any photographer who implies otherwise is selling you something. For wider East London coverage beyond Shoreditch itself, I cover Hackney, Bethnal Green and the rest of the borough on the same terms.
Shooting in a Shoreditch office
What I need is straightforward: three metres of depth for the backdrop and me to step back, one plug socket, and a room that isn’t glass on every side. A boardroom with one solid wall works. A meeting pod with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides doesn’t, whatever it looks like on the office tour.
What tends to defeat me
- A converted warehouse with north-facing windows and painted brick everywhere, so there’s nothing pale to bounce flash off
- A co-working space where the only free room is booked solid from 9am and released to me at noon, with forty minutes to shoot fifteen people
- A “quiet corner” that turns out to be six feet from the coffee machine
None of this is unfixable. I carry a portable bounce and can flag a scheduling problem the moment I see the room booking, days before the shoot rather than on the morning. My recent work across London includes plenty shot in exactly these conditions, brick and glass and all.
When to book the studio instead
A team of six or fewer is usually better off coming to me. Below that number, the time spent setting up a full lighting rig in your office costs more than the group saves versus a studio session, and the studio gives better light control than any office wall will offer.
Above ten, on-site wins clearly: moving ten people out of a working day costs the business more than moving one photographer in. Six to nine is the genuine grey area, and I’ll usually ask about your building before deciding, not just the headcount.
Send me your headcount and a photo of the room if you have one, and tell me the date and the postcode. I’ll confirm availability and any room requirements within one working day.