People at work
Teams, leadership, craft, and everyday interactions. Help prospective customers get to know the people they will work with and build trust before the first meeting.
The visual world of your business
Commercial photography in Columbus, Ohio.
Show customers the people, care, and experience behind your business. A considered image library gives your team photographs for websites, launches, social media, and the next campaign.
Commercial photography with a human point of view
Photographs should make the business recognizable before the logo appears.
Generic offices, staged handshakes, and people pretending to work are easy to photograph and easy to forget. Strong businesses already have their own rhythm, culture, rooms, and details customers remember.
My job is to notice what is specific to the business and make photographs your marketing team can use on your website, in email campaigns, across social media, and in print. We plan for those placements before the shoot, so you have the subjects, framing, and variety you need when it is time to publish.
What I photograph
The work, captured in context.
Places
Restaurants, venues, and workspaces with life inside them. Give visitors a clear sense of the atmosphere so they can picture a meal, gathering, or working day there.
Products in context
Food, drink, objects, and services shown where customers encounter them. Give menus, product pages, and social posts the detail people need to understand and choose what you offer.
Campaigns & launches
A coordinated set of photographs for openings, new offerings, advertising, and press. Launch across channels with images that belong together and fit the placements you have planned.
Culture & recruiting
Show candidates the people and working environment they could join. Current team photographs give careers pages and recruiting materials something specific to say about life at your company.
Reports & editorial
Put faces and places alongside the year's progress. Give annual reports, publications, and community updates photographs that help readers understand the people behind the numbers.
Proof in practice
Real projects. Photographs put to work.
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Sanctuary Columbus
An ongoing visual archive used across social media, promotional material, and the organization's annual report.
See the ongoing story →
02
Liberty Social
A focused refresh built around a signature product, the atmosphere of the room, and the craft behind the experience.
See the refresh →
03
Stir Trek
Event coverage that holds the speakers, audience, sponsors, and energy of the room together.
See the event story →Ways to work together
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Commercial Projects
Project-based engagement
Focused assignments for a campaign, website, launch, location, team, or product in context. We define the business need first, then build the right production around it.
Includes
- Creative and production planning
- A shot plan tied to specific marketing uses
- Commercial imagery for web, print, press, and campaigns
- Licensing defined around the scope of the project
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Ongoing Image Libraries
Retained commercial partnership
Recurring photography for businesses that need fresh, cohesive imagery across campaigns, seasons, locations, and everyday marketing. Each session starts further ahead because I already know the people, place, and visual world of the business.
Includes
- A recurring schedule tied to your marketing calendar
- Creative planning before each assignment
- Evolving coverage of people, place, product, and culture
- A growing, organized image library
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Event & Experience Coverage
Commercial event assignment
Conferences, launches, openings, company gatherings, and public experiences photographed for immediate coverage and future marketing. The finished library connects the speakers, guests, sponsors, setting, and important details.
Includes
- Pre-event planning and priority moments
- People, environment, details, and atmosphere
- Coverage designed for press, recap, social, and future promotion
- Delivery planned around your event timeline
Commercial projects, ongoing partnerships, and event coverage are quoted according to scope, schedule, deliverables, production, and usage. Travel outside Columbus is available.
How it works
- 01
Define the use
We start with the business need and the audience the photographs need to reach. That may be a campaign, website, report, launch, event, or ongoing marketing calendar.
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Plan the visual story
I map the people, locations, products, moments, and details that will make the business feel specific. Production stays purposeful without making the day feel over-scripted.
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Photograph and deliver
You receive a curated commercial image library prepared for the uses we defined. For ongoing clients, that library keeps growing with the business.
Direction without performance
Your team can keep doing the work.
I plan enough to keep the assignment moving, then leave room for the moments that cannot be staged. People get clear direction when they need it and space when they do not. The result feels human because the room never has to stop being itself for the camera.
Read about my approach →
Frequently asked
What kind of businesses do you work with?
I work best with businesses and organizations whose value lives in people, place, craft, culture, or experience. That includes hospitality groups, venues, creative businesses, community organizations, marketing teams, and agencies.
Is this personal branding photography?
No. The focus is the visual world of a business rather than a portrait session for one person's social feed. Environmental portraits can be part of the work, but they live alongside the team, space, product, process, and customer experience.
How much does a commercial project cost?
Commercial projects, ongoing partnerships, and event coverage are quoted according to scope, schedule, deliverables, production, and usage, so you only pay for the work the assignment actually requires.
Do you travel outside Columbus?
Yes. I regularly work with clients across Ohio and beyond. Travel fees depend on location and scope, but I'm happy to discuss options.
How does image licensing work?
Licensing is defined around the agreed marketing uses, duration, and reach of the project. We'll make those terms clear in the proposal so your team knows exactly where the photographs can work.
Do you offer video?
Motion is part of the direction the studio is growing toward. For projects that need it now, we can discuss the right production approach and whether trusted collaborators should be part of the team.
Can we create a long-term image plan together?
Yes. Ongoing clients plan assignments around launches, seasons, locations, reports, recruiting, and campaign calendars so the library stays useful instead of going stale.
Photographs people can recognize
A launch taking shape. Your team at work. Customers settling into the room. The details that belong to your business.
Tell me what your marketing needs the photographs to accomplish.
Discuss a project →