Team portraits
and LinkedIn photos.

Try it: look up your own company on LinkedIn and check the "team" page of your website. A cropped holiday selfie, a dark portrait taken on a phone, a photo from ten years ago, two people on a white background and three in front of an office… Every inconsistency sends the same message: we don't pay attention to detail here.

Professional team portraits fix that in a single visit: everyone, on the same day, in the same light, with the same look. Here is how it works in practice — and how to keep that consistency over time, even as the team grows.

A session in your premises, not the other way round.

I come to you with a mobile studio: backdrop and lighting are set up in a meeting room or a corner of the workshop in about thirty minutes. Your staff come in one after another, 10 to 15 minutes per person, between two appointments. Nobody loses half a day, and business carries on.

This format makes all the difference for people who are uncomfortable in front of the camera — which is to say almost everyone. In familiar surroundings, with a few minutes of conversation before the first frame, faces relax and the portraits become natural. Twenty years of photographing people who are not models is precisely what that experience is for.

Two approaches, depending on your image.

Consistency, even when the team changes.

The real problem with team portraits only shows after six months: three hires later, the newcomers have photos that clash — different light, different backdrop, different photographer. The staff directory gets worse with every new hire.

That is why I offer businesses a recurring appointment, once or twice a year: I come back with the same settings, the same light, the same backdrop, and the new faces fit seamlessly with the existing ones. Your image stays consistent without you having to think about it. How a corporate assignment works from start to finish is set out in the guide Corporate photo shoot: how does it work?

Tips to pass on to your teams.

• Usual work clothes, in which everyone feels comfortable — no suit pulled out of the wardrobe for the occasion if nobody ever wears one.
• Plain colours preferably — fine stripes and busy patterns age badly on screen.
• No need to know how to pose — guiding you is my job, not yours.
• Allow 10-15 minutes per person in the diary, no more.

Where I work.

Based in Saint-Lô, I work throughout Normandy — travel included in the Manche and Calvados, notably in Caen, Saint-Lô and Cherbourg — and anywhere in France on quotation. My full approach to corporate photography is on the page corporate photographer in Normandy.

To see portraits of business owners taken on location, in their workshop and then on their home ground, the story at Menuiseries du Cotentin shows several — often more telling than a neutral backdrop.