Business Photography Vienna

A business portrait is often the first impression you make. It appears on your website, your LinkedIn profile, in proposals, press releases and conference programmes, usually before anyone has met you. A good photo shows you at your best: professional, approachable and current. For a company, a consistent set of portraits across the whole team signals the same care and standards you bring to your work.

Portraits build trust. Clients, partners and candidates look up the people behind a business, and a clear, confident photograph answers their first question: who will I be dealing with? That is why the team page matters, and why the portraits on it are worth getting right.

I bring a mobile studio to your office, so nobody has to travel and each person is away from their desk for only a short time. Sessions run to a schedule with a time slot per person. The camera is connected to a laptop or iPad, so everyone sees their pictures during the session and chooses their favourites on the spot. I guide each person through posture and expression, including those who dislike being photographed.

For a doctor's practice, I photographed portraits, the team at work and the practice itself for their new website. The doctor and web design agency followed the shoot live on an iPad and picked favourites on the spot. See the Doctor's Practice project.

A team photo shows that there is a real, capable group of people behind your company. It might be the whole company in one frame, departments or project teams, or the leadership group for press and investor material. Done well, it says something about how you work together, not only who is on the payroll.

Team photos support the stage where people are considering you. A prospective client sees the size and character of the team they would be working with. A candidate sees future colleagues. Journalists and event organisers get an image they can publish straight away. The same pictures serve your about page, pitch decks, annual reports, press kits and recruitment material, so a the images from a single photoshoot are used for a long time.

Photographing a group well is mostly preparation. I plan the location, the arrangement and the lighting in advance, whether the picture is taken in an office, a stairwell or outdoors. On the day I position and direct everyone quickly, so even a large group is finished and back at work in good time. Team photos are easy to combine with individual portraits in the same session, which makes the most of having everyone in one place.

For Thinkubator, a think tank for the circular economy and sustainable business, I photographed the whole team, the founders and a portrait of each person. I also worked with them to create their brand film. See the Thinkubator project.

Employer branding photography shows what it is like to work at your company. It goes beyond portraits to capture people doing their jobs: in meetings, at the workbench, with clients, at lunch, in the moments between. The aim is a true picture of your culture that the right candidates will recognise themselves in.

In recruiting, these images work from first contact to application. They make job adverts and LinkedIn posts stand out, they give your careers page substance, and they help candidates decide whether they would fit in before they apply. Real photographs of real colleagues are far more convincing than stock images, and they give your HR and marketing teams material to draw on for months.

I work to a shot list agreed in advance, so the important roles, locations and situations are all covered. Some scenes are captured as they happen and others are set up and directed, and I help your team relax into both. If you are planning a recruiting film as well, photography and video can be planned and quoted as one production, so your employer brand has one look across every channel.

Workplace photography shows where and how your company works: the office, the workshop, the practice, the production floor, the tools and the details. It gives clients and candidates a sense of place, and it gives your website and brochures images that belong to you alone.

These photos build trust and credibility. A visitor who can see your premises, your equipment and your team at work has evidence that the business is established and well run, before any conversation takes place. They are especially valuable where the space is part of the service, such as medical practices, studios, hospitality and anywhere clients visit in person.

I photograph spaces with attention to light, lines and order, the same approach I use for interiors and architecture, and I combine it with pictures of people at work so the rooms feel alive. One of my clients, a doctor who needed images for a practice website, booked individual portraits, team photos, workplace shots and architectural photographs in a single shoot. Planning everything together gave the website one consistent look.

For Akademy 120-80, I photographed the team in a workshop setting at their office, drawing on the whiteboard and planning together, then the two founders in the streets around it, showing who they are, for their website, presentations and print materials. See the Akademy 120-80 project.