Kit Fordham specialises in "environmental portraiture", with an emphasis on capturing the essence of the sitter's life and personality in his or her own surroundings. Typically naturally-lit and in the subject's natural habitat, these images act almost as short stories, providing glimpses inside the lives of an enormously varied cast of characters, from a charismatic farmer pictured against a stone building on his family farm in West Cork, Ireland to a moody still-life of a woman with an aloof gaze pictured at a former North Beach, San Francisco flophouse that captures the feel of the Dashiell Hammett dectective novels that were set in that city in the 1930's.
Environmental portraiture seeks to avoid the artificiality and staged composition of typical high street portrait studios that produce a likeness of individuals, focusing instead on putting sitters at ease in the hopes of more successfully illuminating their personality.
Fordham is available by appointment to photograph you in your home or special location in the greater London area, or indeed anywhere in the world. Weddings by arrangement. Go to "Contacts" and write for more details.
Environmental portraiture seeks to avoid the artificiality and staged composition of typical high street portrait studios that produce a likeness of individuals, focusing instead on putting sitters at ease in the hopes of more successfully illuminating their personality.
Fordham is available by appointment to photograph you in your home or special location in the greater London area, or indeed anywhere in the world. Weddings by arrangement. Go to "Contacts" and write for more details.
