Portfolio
Founder and Business Owner Portfolio
Founder sessions are photographed where the businesses actually are: a jewellery showroom, a design studio, a garden-facing office, a dining room set for clients. The room is doing as much work in these frames as the person standing in front of the camera.
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Why so few of these are plain backgrounds
Because for an owner, the environment is evidence. A prospective client looking at a jeweller, a designer or a consultant is trying to work out what it will be like to deal with them, and a photograph of the actual room answers that question in a way a grey backdrop cannot.
It also produces images that do more jobs. A portrait fills a profile slot; a wider frame with the workspace in it can carry a homepage, a headline, an article, a social post and a press page. That is why almost every session in this gallery came out of a branding plan rather than a headshot booking — several looks, several settings, mapped to the specific pages they were destined for before the day began.
The exception is worth stating plainly: if you need one photograph for one profile, an environmental session is the wrong purchase and a $200 headshot session is the right one.
More on how a founder session is planned is on the founders page.
Plan a session
The room you built is part of the story.
Founder sessions photograph you, the work and the space in a single planned day.