Solo · personal branding · London
Solo photoshoot in London
Portraits for your work, your Instagram, or just because you’re in London on your own. One hour, a planned route, and a photographer who tells you exactly what to do with your hands.
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£300 per hour · 30 minutes £150 · commercial use included
Better than a selfie. By a lot.
Travelling alone means there’s nobody to take the photo, and the ones you ask strangers for are never right. A solo session gives you an hour with someone whose job is to make you look like yourself on a good day: for a profile, a website, a launch, or the wall.
Directed, not posed
You’re not left to “be natural”. Walk here, look there, hands like this. It feels silly for two minutes and then the photos start.
Works for work
Headshots, website portraits, content for a launch. Commercial use is included, no extra licence.
Bring a second outfit
A change of jacket or dress halfway through gives you two sets from one hour. We plan a spot to switch.
What’s included
One hour, everything included
£300
Easy cancellation and refund. Half an hour at one spot is £150.
Recent solo sessions
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Tell us about your trip
Tell us what the photos are for: a profile, a website, a launch, or just you in London. It changes the route.
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Hold the date
A small deposit, refundable up to 7 days before. A short guide on what to wear and what to bring.
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Show up
We direct, you walk. Clips the same evening, the gallery within one week.
More about solo and branding sessions
Portraits for a website, and portraits for yourself
Solo sessions split roughly into two jobs. One is personal branding: you need a headshot and a set of working portraits for a website, LinkedIn, a speaker bio or a press kit, and they have to look like you on a good day rather than like a stock photo. The other is simpler — you are in London, you look the way you look right now, and nobody has taken a decent photograph of you in years. Both are an hour, and both come with commercial use included, so you can put the results anywhere.
Locations that suit the purpose
For branding we tend to stay in the City or around the South Bank: glass, stone, clean lines, and backgrounds that read as professional without shouting London at the viewer. Neutral brick and painted doors in Notting Hill work well if your work is creative rather than corporate. For personal portraits we go wherever the light is best — the river at sunrise, the parks in the late afternoon, Covent Garden and Neal’s Yard early before the crowds.
If you need several looks in one session, two hours and one outfit change covers it comfortably, usually across two areas.
What to wear, and what not to
Bring what you actually wear to work, plus one thing you feel good in that you would never call work clothes. Plain colours photograph better than busy patterns, and layers give us options. If the photographs are for a website, check what colour that website is — dark clothes against a dark page disappear. More on colour and season is in our guide to what to wear for a London photoshoot.
If you hate being photographed
Most people booking a solo session say some version of this, and it is the normal starting point, not a problem. Being alone in front of a camera is harder than being photographed with someone else, so we direct more, not less: where to stand, what to do with your hands, where to look, when to walk. We show you the back of the camera early so you can see it is going well. Ten minutes in, almost everybody stops thinking about it.
Friends and small groups
A solo session also covers two or three friends travelling together. It works the same way — the same route and the same direction — with a mix of photographs of the group and a few of each person alone. Say how many of you there are when you get in touch and we will tell you whether an hour is enough.
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