brighton professional photography
Portraits and profile shots of Guy Parker-Rees is a British illustrator and author of children's books taken in his Brighton studio.
Read MoreI always like meeting new people and taking informal professional profile head shots for them and hearing their stories about who they are and how they got to be where they’re going.
In this case Ben is a Brighton based ghost writer, author and writing coach specialising in self help and wellness books.
He contacted me and we had a chat about what he’s looking for and said that “One of things I love about the work on your site is that they can be used for formal purposes but they are anything but stuffy/uptight, you capture the warmth and humanity of your subjects.”
I always like to hear how people see my portraits / head shots and work with them to get what they are looking for and i’m pretty pleased with the results from this shoot.
I don’t really do photography projects…..however I seem to have accidentally been shooting one for five years now.
Once a month, every month for the last five years (that’s 60 shoots), i’ve been photographing Brighton people (326 in total) in various professions / hobbies / businesses for the wonderful Viva Brighton Magazine with the help of the amazing Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Mechen.
Although it's not quite an A to Z of professions, we’ve shot everything from Adventures to Window cleaners including Butchers, Bakers and Cocktail Makers.
When I started the first The Way We Work shoot in November of 2014 I didn’t think we’d be still shooting five years later, but to be honest, i’m more than happy to continue this project indefinitely as it’s such fun, incredibly interesting and is literally a documentary of The Way We Work.
Like I said, I don’t really do photography projects, but when I do they seem to be big.
One of the many things I love about photography is that no two shoot are the same and there really is a wide variety of subjects to photograph. Each shoot is a challenge and there is a pleasure in learning something new every time.
I may be known for my professional people photography and portraits, head shots, company profile etc. and my commercial work, but I love taking interior and architectural photography projects on as well.
This was a commission for a Brighton building and design company who wanted me to document some recent work for them.
I love being asked to go into a space and document or capture what businesses or people do there. I'm free to just observe and take photos of how I see the place and it makes me look at the people and the details with a much more critical photographic eye.
So this time I was asked to take photos of the wonderful Brighton Table Tennis Club in Kemp Town, Brighton for a magazine article. I must have been past this place hundereds of times and not realised what goes on inside. It's just an amazing place and if you have any interest in Table Tennis what so ever, you really shout check it out.
As part of my ongoing project to capture The Way We Work for Viva Brighton magazine, I got to photograph a load of Architect's portraits the other month.
I love how they are all wearing similar tones and colours. Maybe it's an Architect's thing.
If you want to see more of this project, which has been running for over three years now, check out this link:
http://www.adambronkhorst.com/the-way-we-work/
I was very fortunate to be able to do some event photography for the wonderful Sound of Story run by the lovely people over at Arts and Culture agency, Lighthouse.
I found the day to be very interesting and learnt a hell of a lot about how sound works in movies. I've been watching films in a totally different light now, I say light, I should say listening to films in a totally different......well something.
The event took place at Brighton Dome and for me one of the highlights was seeing how a foley artist works to create the sound that you don't even know you are hearing.
So massive thanks to the guys at Lighthouse for asking me to photograph the event for them.
