Family Photoshoot at Home in London

A family photoshoot at home is a lifestyle session rather than a portrait sitting. We photograph what already happens in your house - breakfast, reading on the sofa, the game that gets played every afternoon - and shape it gently rather than staging it. The result looks like your family because it is your family, in the room where you spend most of your time - natural, beautiful and unrepeatable.

That does not mean it is unstructured. We plan a loose running order before we arrive, so there is a shape to the session and nobody is standing around wondering what happens next. It simply means the children are not being asked to sit still and smile on command, which is the thing that goes wrong in most family shoots.

It suits families with babies and toddlers particularly well, because naps, feeds and meltdowns are all easier to absorb at home than halfway across London. It also suits families who want the house itself in the pictures - the first home, the nursery, the kitchen table everyone grew up around - and extended family members who can drop in for part of the session.

One window is genuinely enough. We work with natural light wherever possible, so the brightest room in the house is usually the right place to start, whatever it happens to be used for.

You do not need to tidy for us. A lived-in room photographs better than a staged one, and we frame around anything you would rather not see. If there is a corner you love or a chair that means something, tell us and we will build frames around it - and capture the little details that make the house yours.

Bring nothing, prepare nothing. If the children have a favourite book or a game that always works, have it to hand - not as a prop, but because a child doing something they enjoy is far easier to photograph than a child being asked to pose, and more fun for the kids.