Personal portraits, headshots, couples and engagement portraits
It begins with a conversation about what matters to you, how you want to be seen, and what you want the work to hold.
We develop the visual direction together, shaping the atmosphere, lighting and setting before we meet.
During the session, I guide you through the process, with room to settle, explore and be yourself.
Your selected photographs are then carefully finished. For an AR commission, I also create a digital layer that becomes part of the physical work.
Complete in its own right.
From £450
Consultation, moodboarding, the first hour of photography and 10 edited images.
Additional photography time: £250 per hour. Prints available separately.
Ready within two weeks.
Choose photographyOpens into sound or moving image.
From £750
A portrait commission with 10 edited digital portraits and one physical artwork with one AR layer.
Production scope and deliverables clearly agreed before booking.
Ready within four weeks.
Choose AR photography
Personal portraits
Headshots
Couples
Engagement portraitsYour commission includes the conversation and moodboarding before we meet, creative direction throughout your session, and the careful finishing of 10 selected photographs.
£450 includes your first hour of studio photography. Additional time is £250 per hour.
| Photography time | Commission fee |
|---|---|
| 1 hour | £450 |
| 2 hours | £700 |
| 3 hours | £950 |
A fine-art print, with a voice, movement or memory held within its digital layer.
AR commissions from £750, including a physical artwork.
| Format | Photographic portrait | AR portrait |
|---|---|---|
| Digital delivery only | Included | Not available |
| A4 fine-art print210 × 297 mm | +£75 | Included |
| A3 fine-art print297 × 420 mm | +£175 | +£100 |
| A2 fine-art print420 × 594 mm | +£325 | +£250 |
Sizes are the paper size.
Your cover is the first thing anyone sees of the record, and on a sleeve, a poster or a T-shirt it can’t make a sound. I make the cover photograph and put the song underneath it. Someone picks up your vinyl at the merch table, holds up their phone and hears the opening bars before they’ve paid. At a gig, the poster keeps making your case while you’re packing up.
Your portrait goes everywhere you can’t: into press packs, onto gallery walls, into the programme of a festival you’re not at. Most artist portraits say “this is what I look like”. Yours can tell people what you make and why, in your own voice. A curator going through fifty submissions hears you before she reads your statement.
A portrait of her, and underneath it, her voice telling the story the family has heard every Christmas for forty years, pauses and all. In ten years the photograph will still look like her. The layer will still sound exactly like her.
The haircut’s finally right, you’ve grown into your face, and you want proof on the wall. No layer needed, no reason required. That’s a portrait too.
Couples and friends come to me as well: a first dance, two friends who’ve been finishing each other’s sentences for thirty years. If it matters to you, we can find a way to keep it.
These are just some ways my AR methodology can expand your photo.
Personal portrait commissions include permission to print, display and share your finished photographs for personal use.
Individual headshot bookings include professional-profile use, so you can use your portraits on your website, professional profiles and agreed publicity materials.
For campaigns, advertising, products or wider organisational use, tell me where the photographs will appear. The appropriate licence and fee will be agreed before you book.
Copyright remains with the photographer. Your confirmation will explain the usage rights included in your commission.
The usage rights in full, in the booking termsPayable now: £225 (50%)
Balance: £225, due 48 hours before your appointment
Ready within two weeks.
Plus the agreed usage licence. Tell me how you plan to use the photographs, and I’ll provide a complete quotation covering production and the appropriate usage rights before you book.
A group of more than 4 is talked through first, so the session fits, before anything is paid.
For a different setting, a larger group or a more involved artwork, we can shape the commission together. We will agree the approach, scope and full price before you book.
print prices to be confirmed
A 50% booking payment reserves your date. The remaining balance is due 48 hours before we meet, and a booking made within 48 hours is paid in full when you book.
Your booking payment reserves your date and is credited towards your commission. Cancellation terms apply.
All photography and portrait appointments must be paid in full before the session takes place.
Your finished photographic portraits will be ready within two weeks of our session. AR commissions take up to four weeks, allowing time to shape, build and test the digital layer alongside your physical artwork.
Once your booking payment is received, you’re welcome to email or WhatsApp me throughout your commission. Share an idea, ask a question or talk through what would help you feel comfortable. You don’t need to have everything worked out before we begin.
You can decide what’s recorded, how it’s used and who gets to hear it. A musician wants the whole world scanning. A mum might want only the family to know. Both are fine. For a personal portrait, whether I may show it in my portfolio, exhibitions or marketing is a separate question, and the answer is yours. For professional and commercial commissions, I may show selected finished images in my portfolio unless we agree otherwise in writing before you book.
The platform used to deliver your AR artwork may change. Where a change affects access, updated instructions will be provided within the agreed support arrangements. Your commission will specify the included hosting and support period, device requirements and any ongoing charges before you book.
You don’t need to understand any of the technology. You only need something worth keeping, even if it’s just your good side.
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