About
A deliberately
small practice.
Founded in Mosman in 2004. Still two photographers. Still the same answer when asked to take on more work than we can do ourselves.
History
2004
The practice began with a single service in Cremorne that had been unhappy with three photographers in four years. The arrangement was informal: photograph the children properly, take as long as it takes, and see what happens.
That service is still with us. It is the reason we have never advertised.
Since
2004–2026
We now work with services across the lower north shore, the inner west and, since 2018, parts of the Central Coast. The most recent year in which we took on more than four new services was 2009.
We have declined considerably more work than we have accepted. That is not a boast — it is simply the arithmetic of two people and a calendar.
What we believe
A portrait is not a transaction
The photograph outlives the invoice by several decades. We try to make decisions that look sensible from that distance rather than from this one.
Consistency is a form of respect
The same two people photograph your children every year. A four-year-old who was photographed as a baby recognises us. This matters more than it sounds.
Restraint is a technique
No props, no themed backdrops, no seasonal borders. These date badly and they draw the eye away from the only thing in the frame worth looking at.
Credentials
Both photographers hold current New South Wales Working With Children Checks, which we provide to services in writing before each engagement along with our certificate of currency for public liability and professional indemnity cover.
We carry our own consent register, cross-checked against the service's enrolment records on the morning of every session. No child is photographed whose consent status we have not personally confirmed on the day.
