Leadership

Returning to London: Corporate and Executive Portraits, 16–26 November

Returning to London: Corporate and Executive Portraits, 16–26 November

I’ll be back at the Farringdon studio from Monday 16 to Thursday 26 November 2026, with a limited number of sittings available for corporate headshots and executive portraits.

London is where much of my practice took shape. Over the past twenty-three years I’ve photographed five Prime Ministers, members of the Royal Family, senior military figures and the leaders of some of Britain’s most respected institutions. Seven of those portraits now sit in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and sixteen in the Royal Collection. That work carries a particular responsibility: a portrait made for a boardroom, an annual report or a state occasion has to hold its authority for years, not just for the next press cycle.

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Corporate Headshots in Los Angeles: Attorney Emily Fu

Corporate Headshots in Los Angeles: Attorney Emily Fu

For an attorney, a headshot is part of the case they make before they ever meet a client. It sits on the firm's website, on LinkedIn, in bar association listings, pitch documents and speaker programmes. It has to say capable and trustworthy, and it also has to say approachable, because people choose a lawyer they feel they can talk to. When Emily Fu came into my Downtown LA studio, that balance was the brief.

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Corporate Headshots in Los Angeles: Curt Behlmer, Dolby Laboratories

Corporate Headshots in Los Angeles: Curt Behlmer, Dolby Laboratories

Corporate headshots do a lot of quiet work. They sit on company websites, LinkedIn profiles, press releases, investor decks and conference programmes. Often they're the first impression a senior executive makes. When Curt Behlmer came into my Downtown LA studio, the brief was simple: a set of corporate headshots that would work everywhere he needed them.

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Bob Johnston, Executive Portraits, Los Angeles

Bob Johnston, Executive Portraits, Los Angeles

Bob Johnston sat for me in Los Angeles last month. He is the founder and chief executive of Exec.org, and his working life is built on introductions: putting a chief executive in front of the person who can move the thing along, a company in front of capital, a board in front of the director it did not know it needed. He also sits as an independent director and on audit committees, which is a different discipline again, and a quieter one.

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Marvin Jones II at the Los Angeles studio

Marvin Jones II at the Los Angeles studio

Marvin Jones II came to the Main Street studio in downtown Los Angeles for a set of portraits to carry his personal platform, his family office and the ventures that sit beneath both. He is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, and he arrived with a clear brief. The pictures had to work as a suite. Several registers, one man, and none of it looking like a corporate headshot.

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If I Can Photograph a King, a Prince, a General, a Prime Minister and a Mayor, I Can Photograph Your CEO

If I Can Photograph a King, a Prince, a General, a Prime Minister and a Mayor, I Can Photograph Your CEO

There is a question every marketing director eventually asks me, usually in the third or fourth email, usually phrased carefully. It is some version of: can you handle our chairman?

What they mean is: he has forty minutes, he does not enjoy being photographed, he has approval over the final image, and the last three attempts were quietly shelved. They are not asking about my lighting. They are asking whether I will make the situation worse.

The honest answer is a list of names.

The people who taught me to work in twenty minutes

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Annual Report Portraits

Annual Report Portraits

An annual report portrait has to survive being printed at size, sitting next to eleven others, and being looked at by people deciding whether to trust the company. An ordinary headshot has to survive being three centimetres wide on a website. They are different objects and the difference shows.

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Why Every Leadership Page Looks the Same

Why Every Leadership Page Looks the Same

Open twenty corporate leadership pages and you will see the same photograph twenty times. Grey background or white. Even light, no shadow anywhere. A slight turn of the shoulders. An expression somewhere between welcome and apology. The subjects differ; the portraits do not.

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Photographing Ray Dalio

Photographing Ray Dalio

Some sitters arrive having decided in advance what a photograph is for. Ray Dalio is one of them.

He is a man who has spent decades being listened to carefully, and who has written at length about how thinking should be done. That produces a particular problem for a portraitist, and it is not the one people assume. The difficulty is not reticence. It is fluency. A person accustomed to explaining themselves clearly will keep explaining, and a face that is mid-explanation is a face performing a function rather than occupying itself.

What I wanted was the pause before the sentence.

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