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Hero lines
- Photographs you will actually print
- Ninety minutes, forty pictures, no fuss
- Light, patience and a fast shutter
A working studio for portraits, weddings and commercial shoots — plus a darkroom nobody has yet had the heart to remove.
Every booking includes the edited files at full resolution and a licence written in plain English. No hostage-taking, no per-print fees.
Fourteen years, somewhere near 900 shoots, and one rule: nobody leaves without seeing something they like on the back of the camera.
Team bios
Ruth Halloran — Founder, portraits
Ruth trained in a portrait studio at nineteen, spent six years shooting press, and came back to portraiture because she missed knowing people’s names. She still carries a handheld light meter, which the younger half of the studio finds hilarious, and she is still right about exposure more often than they are.
Emil Sørensen — Commercial photographer
Emil handles product, food and interiors, which means he owns an unreasonable quantity of clamps. He came from set-building and will cheerfully spend forty minutes on the fold of a napkin, because that is usually the difference between a photograph and a snapshot.
Nour Haddad — Retoucher & studio manager
Nour does the finishing: colour, skin, and the stray cable somebody left in shot. She retouches at 100% and then checks at printed size, on the theory that nobody views a photograph with their nose against it. Runs the diary and guards the schedule fiercely.
Quotes
“We booked them for headshots and ended up rebooking for the whole product range. The pictures did more for the website than the redesign did — and the redesign cost a great deal more.”
Alison Trebeck, Head of Marketing
“My mother refuses to be photographed. She has now bought four prints of herself and hung one in the hall. I still do not know how that happened!”
Georgia Ifeanyi, Portrait client
“They delivered 640 edited images nineteen days after the wedding, and the licence simply says “print whatever you like, for as long as you like”. That sentence alone was worth the fee.”
Callan Meredith, Wedding client
FAQ answers
How long until we see the photographs?
A first gallery within five working days for portraits and events, three weeks for weddings. Retouching cannot sensibly be rushed, but if you need one image immediately — for a press release, or for an obituary — ask, and you will have it the same day.
Do we get the original files?
You get every edited file at full resolution, with a written licence covering personal or commercial use as agreed. We archive around 3 GB per wedding and keep raw files for two years; the unedited frames stay with us, which is standard practice and open to discussion.
What if the weather is terrible?
For outdoor portraits we move the date at no cost, up to twice. For weddings we cannot — the day happens regardless — so we agree a wet-weather location at the pre-shoot meeting and carry two large umbrellas that photograph well.
Can we bring our own ideas?
Please do. Bring pictures you like, including ones taken by other photographers, and bring the reason you like them if you can put it into words. It is far more useful than a vague brief and it saves the first half hour of guessing.
Closing lines
The diary opens roughly ten months ahead for weddings and about six weeks for everything else. If a date is not showing as free, ask anyway — cancellations happen, and we keep a short waiting list for exactly that reason.
Come and see the studio before you book. There is coffee, there are prints on the wall, and within fifteen minutes you will know whether you are comfortable being photographed by us — which matters more than any portfolio.
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