York Place Studios

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

York Place Studios

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Portraits of and about people

However beautiful the backdrop or extraordinary the situation we find ourselves in our photography has always been first and foremost about people and personality. About creating something that’s not only pretty but seems to reveal something, however small and subtle, about the subject in front of us.

The reportage photography for which we’re perhaps best known has never been directly about the setting or the situation, they are merely a tool to reveal an aspect of character in the frame. So when it comes to portraits we wanted to apply that same mentality to our approach.

Our portraits are not about the act of photography, they’re about you. We don’t need to take you to the top of a mountain, we don’t need a wind machine, complicated lighting setup and a dozen assistants buzzing around you. We like to keep things simple – just you, us and the camera, telling the story in your eyes, your face, your expression and composure.

Young boy looks at the camera holding a horse toy. Monochrome headshot portrait photography by York Place

Whether taking place at your home, on location or even as part of a family or event photography session, our headshot photo portraits are a simple conversation between you and the camera, one-on-one. We want our portrait shoots to make you feel relaxed and comfortable in front of the camera, without the need for any sort of acting and performance. We believe that portraits should reveal a sense of who you are, not who you can pretend to be, so that when others see your portrait mounted on the wall they recognise you – not just the way you look but a sense of who you are as a person.

“For the longest time portraits felt somehow alien to us – all about the act of taking the photograph and seldom about the subject. But in the end, we realised that the portraits we truly love are not complicated in nature, in many ways they are simplicity itself.”

LOOKING FOR PURE, HONEST PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE?

If you connected with our simple, honest portrait photography we’d love to talk. We travel throughout London and across the UK and would love to capture a beautiful personal portrait for you.