Actors Headshots

Stephen Graham: The Quiet Menace Arrives on Apple TV

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Stephen Graham: The Quiet Menace Arrives on Apple TV

Graham’s new series, Nocturne, makes its global debut on Friday, October 30, 2026 with the first two episodes, with new episodes every Friday through December 25 on Apple TV. Originally titled Lazarus, the 10-episode drama was written by Rowan Joffe and John Hlavin and also stars Liev Schreiber and Zazie Beetz. Schreiber plays Jonah Lynn, a former soldier turned homicide detective who leaves Philadelphia for a quiet life in a small Western Pennsylvania town, only for the town and his family to come under attack from the serial killer Jurek Walter, played by Graham

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Returning to London: Award-Winning Actor Headshots (11–24 November)

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Returning to London: Award-Winning Actor Headshots (11–24 November)

Following portrait sessions across Los Angeles and New York, I am returning to my Central London studio from 11 to 24 November for a dedicated run of actor headshot sittings.

In an industry where casting directors form an impression in the fraction of a second a thumbnail appears on Spotlight, a headshot cannot simply document your likeness. It must reveal character, communicate presence, and establish immediate credibility.

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Thirty-Minute Update Headshots — London, One Day Only (Thursday 12 November)

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Thirty-Minute Update Headshots — London, One Day Only (Thursday 12 November)

On Thursday 12 November 2026, I am giving my Central London studio over entirely to thirty-minute update sessions.It is the only date I will offer them in London this year.

Each session is two looks and one image, fully retouched.

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New York Actors’ Headshots: Four Days in Midtown, 5–8 November 2026

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New York Actors’ Headshots: Four Days in Midtown, 5–8 November 2026

In August I wrote that September could well be my last New York dates of the year. It wasn’t. Four more days have opened in early November, Thursday the 5th to Sunday the 8th, and I’m giving them to actors.

The timing is good. Images made now are proofed, retouched and on your profiles well before the new year, when casting picks up again and every office in the city wants to see something current. It is also the last clear window before the holidays take over the calendar.

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Chauncey Alan: A Lean and Hungry Look

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Chauncey Alan: A Lean and Hungry Look

A return sitting at the Downtown Los Angeles studio, and the case for every actor owning a villain.

Chauncey Alan has played Caesar. This time he came back to the Los Angeles studio wanting to be Cassius.

Not literally, but the brief was close. Chauncey needed a villainous headshot for his castings: one image that tells a casting director, in the half-second a thumbnail gets, that he can be trusted with the man nobody should trust. Shakespeare gave Caesar the line that describes exactly what we were after: “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

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Devin McElvogue: A Headshot in Copper and Grey

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Devin McElvogue: A Headshot in Copper and Grey

Some faces arrive at the studio already halfway to a painting. Devin McElvogue walked into the Downtown Los Angeles studio with a head of tight copper curls, a red beard, and a pair of hazel eyes that, under the right light, turn almost amber. A gift for a portrait photographer, but also a responsibility: when a sitter’s colouring is this distinctive, the headshot has to render it truthfully. Casting directors are not booking an idea of a redhead. They are booking Devin.

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Los Angeles Model Headshots: Christian Bell – The Two-Tone Statement

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Los Angeles Model Headshots: Christian Bell – The Two-Tone Statement

Christian Bell stepped into the Downtown Los Angeles studio carrying a look that immediately commands attention. The striking two-tone afro — rich dark curls giving way to a crown of silver-white — became the defining feature of the session, but it was the face beneath it that made the images sing.

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Travis Quentin Young – Louisiana Roots, LA Range

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Travis Quentin Young – Louisiana Roots, LA Range

Travis Quentin Young brought the full weight of his Louisiana upbringing and Los Angeles-honed versatility into the Downtown Los Angeles studio. Born in Lake Charles and already performing on national television by the age of ten, Young carries a quiet authority that belies his years on screen.

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Billy Hirsch – Brooklyn Bite Meets West Coast Cool

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Billy Hirsch – Brooklyn Bite Meets West Coast Cool

Billy Hirsch arrived at the Downtown Los Angeles studio with the same unfiltered energy that defines his work. Brooklyn-born and now a Southern California transplant, he carries that unmistakable East Coast edge softened by West Coast ease — a combination that makes him instantly compelling on camera.

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London's Finest Actors' Headshot Photographer — Four Sittings, and a Word About November

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London's Finest Actors' Headshot Photographer — Four Sittings, and a Word About November

People sometimes ask me why an actor should sit for a headshot with a portrait photographer rather than a headshot photographer. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that the distinction shouldn't exist. A headshot is a portrait — it is simply a portrait with a job to do. It has to walk into a casting director's inbox at nine in the morning, sit alongside three hundred others, and make somebody stop scrolling. That is not achieved with a white seamless and a ring light. It is achieved by looking properly at a face, understanding what it does, and lighting it the way the old masters lit theirs: with intent.

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Clancy Brown at the Table

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Clancy Brown at the Table

Last week Clancy Brown came to the Downtown Los Angeles studio, and I finally had the chance to build a picture I have been carrying around in my head for some time: a man at a table, with bread and wine and fruit in front of him, lit the way the Old Masters lit their suppers.

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New York headshots and portraits, 17 and 18 September 2026

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New York headshots and portraits, 17 and 18 September 2026

Two days of sittings in Midtown on 17 and 18 September, at Young Studio on 8th Avenue, followed by the New York masterclass on the Saturday. Actors, executives and commissioned portraits — one light, dark ground, as always.

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Tom Connolly New actors headshots at the studio, downtown Los Angeles

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Tom Connolly New actors headshots at the studio, downtown Los Angeles

There is a particular pleasure in photographing an actor who has spent time in the eighteenth century. Tom Connolly leads the feature film Love, Courage and the Battle of Bushy Run as Colonel Henry Bouquet, the Swiss-born British Army officer whose victory at Bushy Run opened the road to the relief of Fort Pitt. The battle was fought, as it happens, in the first week of August, two hundred and sixty-three years ago this month.

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A Month in Los Angeles: Sittings, Headshots & Tuition

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A Month in Los Angeles: Sittings, Headshots & Tuition

14 August – 17 September 2026 · 411 S Main Street, Unit 222, Downtown Los Angeles

My Los Angeles diary is open from 14 August to 17 September, and I am now taking bookings for headshot sessions, commissioned portrait sittings, and private tuition. After 17 September I return to London and New York, and these are the last extended Los Angeles dates before the autumn.

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Actor Headshots in New York: A Sitting with Michael DelaFlor

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Actor Headshots in New York: A Sitting with Michael DelaFlor

There is a particular kind of face the camera waits for. Not the arranged one, not the face that performs readiness the moment a lens appears, but the one that carries a thought behind the eyes and lets you watch it move. Michael DelaFlor brought exactly that into my New York studio, and it made the work a pleasure.

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New York, 9–13 August: Actor Headshots and Corporate Portraits in Midtown Manhattan

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New York, 9–13 August: Actor Headshots and Corporate Portraits in Midtown Manhattan

I return to New York this August. From Saturday 9 to Wednesday 13 August, my studio at 580 8th Avenue — twenty floors above the Garment District, a few minutes' walk from Times Square and the theatre houses — will be open for actor headshots, portrait sittings, and corporate headshots.

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Fedly Daniel — Actor Headshots at My New York Studio

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Fedly Daniel — Actor Headshots at My New York Studio

There are faces the camera simply agrees with, and Fedly Daniel has one of them. He came to my Midtown Manhattan studio (580 8th Avenue, 20th Floor) for a new set of actor headshots, and from the first frame the session had that quality I'm always chasing — stillness with something moving underneath.

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Alex Wyndham Headshots | Rory Lewis Photographer, Los Angeles

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Alex Wyndham Headshots | Rory Lewis Photographer, Los Angeles

There's a particular pleasure in a sitter you clock the moment they come through the door, and Alex Wyndham was one of them — Maecenas himself, Octavian's silken fixer from the second season of Rome, standing in my Downtown LA studio some seventeen years on and none the worse for it. I confess I said as much straight away, which is not always the done thing with actors, but there it was. One doesn't forget a face that spent a whole season murmuring political poison into a young Caesar's ear.

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