About
The people behind the camera
A small group of photographers working in London, and one idea: nobody should come home from a trip without a single good photo of the two of them.
We’re Julia and Anatoly.
In London since 2022 · founders of A London Photographer
We started photographing couples on our own travels, mostly because we kept coming home with four hundred phone photos and not one good one of the two of us. Friends asked us to do the same for them. Then friends of friends. Eight years and a few thousand couples later, it is our whole job.
Most of the people we photograph have never done a professional shoot and arrive a little stiff. That part is on us. We plan the route, pick the hour when the light is kind, and tell you where to stand and what to do with your hands. Ten minutes in, you forget about the camera.
We organise the London sessions; Natalia, our London photographer, shoots them. She knows this city’s light and its crowds and works to the plan we set together: the same route, the same guidance and the same edit. Anatoly edits the London guides on this site; the routes and timings in them come from her sessions.
7
years
1,500+
clients photographed
40
weddings shot
How we work
A route, not a location
One hour is three or four backdrops within walking distance, in the order the light favours. We send the plan before you arrive, with a meeting point and what to wear.
We lead, you don’t pose
You will not be asked to “act natural”. You get small, specific things to do, and the photos happen in between. That is why couples who hate being photographed come back.
An honest edit
Natural colour, real skin, no heavy filters that date in a year. The photos should still look like you in ten years, on a wall, not just in a feed.
Your photographer in London
Natalia
Natalia loves London, and it shows in her photos. She has been photographing our couples here since 2022 and still gets up early for an empty Westminster Bridge and the soft light on the river. She also knows how to keep a Saturday crowd out of the frame.
She works to the same plan as the rest of our team. The route and the hour are set before you arrive, she guides you through every frame, and the edit follows the same style as every gallery on this site.
Every London session on this site is hers.
