Executive Headshot and Portrait Portfolio

Most of these people needed more than one photograph and did not know it when they booked. A chief executive typically needs a formal frame for the report, a warmer one for internal communications, and something looser for a conference bio — and photographing all three in one sitting costs a fraction of discovering the gap in November.

So a leadership session is planned as a set of registers rather than a single look. The controlled frames are shot first, against a background that can be reproduced exactly for whoever joins the board next year. The environmental work — atriums, boardrooms, glass and concrete — follows once the essential images are safely done.

The direction matters more here than anywhere else. Senior people are used to controlling a room and are frequently uncomfortable being the subject of one; the fix is continuous instruction and seeing the frames on screen as they happen, so approval occurs in the room rather than three weeks later by email.

More on how these sittings are arranged is on the executive portraits page.