brandwriter – London Headshot & Branding Photographer

21 May 2025

Bringing the tools of your trade into your photoshoot 🌟

I’ve worked with many schools over the years and done lots of branding photoshoots with all sorts of businesses but Southall College definitely upped the game in terms of props 😁

Southall Community College run all manner of courses including a strong plumbing department. Their students were really eager to have new headshots so they could finish setting up their websites and have profile photos to show their faces to prospective clients. Some of the students are only recently out of school so might not usually think of having headshots done but they are keen to be taken seriously in their profession and having good profile photos supports this.

It’s always great to include props when client’s professions involve regular use of tools and it can make people feel in their zone during their headshot sessions. The plumbing students were more than happy to bring some and they added some nice pops of colour 🎨

Good luck to course tutor Jason (featured above with a pipe bender) and all the students pursuing their plumbing careers 💫

28 June 2024

The perfect example of you are your brand 🌟

Brand Language with a Beating Heart. I love Becca Magnus’s strapline for her creative studio business, Magnus & Co – it absolutely captures her personality and vision that branding should speak to the heart, then the head. Becca is the bubbliest of people and she and her brand are part and parcel. As it should be.

I met Becca at the lovely Allbright Mayfair and she booked onto one of my mini branding photoshoot sessions last month. It was so nice to see her and catch up properly, whilst packing in lots of shots. She wore the most gorgeous pink suit and just looked fabulous and then swapped it for a more casual look cardi, so that her pool of images captured vibes of meeting clients plus creative writing in her studio. She’s now got some stunning images which give insight into different areas of her work and show off her personality, for every marketing need. We did some inside and then snuck outside in between the rain and had a real laugh. One of her favourite shots is doing the hair flick 😆

Becca has worked for all sorts of interesting clients across many sectors – Imperial War Museum, Toast, the NHS, Book Trust, Microsoft, Twinings and my favourite of all, Pip & Nut. You can’t get better than almond butter in my book…😋 If you’d like some inspiration, have a look at her work or follow her on insta @beccamagnus