Professional School Photography
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Become the Leading School everyone is jealous of! – Providing you all your school marketing needs
SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER – West Midlands Based Specialist for Schools for all “School Marketing Needs”
Schools commonly use photo boards for staff introductions, “meet the team” displays, student recognition, safeguarding teams, and departmental or house displays. We look to enhance this with Storyboard Photography and art. Helping you to encourage School ethos and ways of working with images.
Classroom and corridor photo displays traditionally showcase pieces of student work and together encompassing this with storybords it can also support learning by making the environment more engaging and visual for both students and parents alike.
When it comes to engaging with all of the stakeholders important to your school, whether they’re parents, staff, governors, pupils or Ofsted, nothing builds the right impression better than our school photography.
Experienced in working with a wide range of schools across the country, Essay Photography provides highly creative, dynamic and bespoke school photography; covering every type of scenario you can imagine within a school.
School marketing and promotional video and images are at the heart of connecting with students and parents. Our aim is to capture high-quality images that reflect the school’s vibrant learning environment, student engagement, and overall ethos. These photographs would be used across appropriate platforms such as the school website, prospectus, newsletters, and social media channels.
I understand the importance of safeguarding and student privacy, and I will ensure that all photography complies fully with the school’s policies, including obtaining the necessary consent from parents or guardians where required. All images will be used responsibly and in line with data protection guidelines.
I would be happy to coordinate with staff to ensure minimal disruption to lessons and to focus on showcasing a wide range of activities and achievements across the school.
Display photo boards in schools are usually used to show staff, classes, student work, or key events in a clear, welcoming way. They can also help visitors quickly understand who’s who and what the school values.
Design ideas
A good school photo board is usually easy to read the message in the photo, visually consistent with school ethos, and matched to the age group of the school. Typical formats include acrylic sandwich boards for future-proofing, printed framed images in a gallery style to decorate the corridor walls, or themed classroom boards with captions and names. For a more lively display, schools often use dynamic sports images.
Good practice
Photo boards in schools should be placed where they are visible but not cluttered, such as reception areas, corridors, entrances, or classroom walls. They should also be kept up to date so the photos and names stay accurate, especially for staff displays. If children’s images are used, schools should follow consent and safeguarding rules.
School Virtual Tour Photographer – Virtual tour of your School
Did you know we are a “Virtual Tour School Photographer?” We offer the opportunity to show ‘A Day in the life of your School’ through a website hosted video, which is a valuable asset to engage parents in their choice of School for their child. With Parents who have limited time for a School visit we have filmed many schools for this purpose and here is an example:
Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School – Virtual Tour
Please feel free to call or email us for further information on how we can help you with this affordable solution.
School Photography – Individual Portraits
We offer School Photography with a comprehensive service for the traditional school portraits and encompass modern photography techniques and Green screen. This means you will have lots of choice for backgrounds, so parents have choices when picking their images. We offer mixing of siblings within the packs too making the choices both affordable and flexible too. Digital files are also available and for one low fee a family only pays for one image and the other sibling downloads come free – this is Unique to Essay Photography.
School Photography – Class Groups
We Photograph our classes in both Traditional Bench style shoots and Modern Panoramic choices, this is the school and parents choice. We cater for all tastes and parents/School’s wishes, different enlargement sizes are available for purchase
Our Philosophy
We value and work on our relationship with schools. The rewards of loyalty between school and photographer ensure that many happy schools stay with us for many years. You will have the same photographer year on year.
We are a local family firm and believe in sourcing local products for our photography and Print, I believe in supporting local business and not large corporate companies with shareholders.
We can listen to Schools price packages with our schools and really bespoke the service to suit the needs of the school.
To sum up we are a Small but 12 year old Limited Company, a family business that cares about its school Photography and its schools
Call us on 07974 356 546 and have a quick chat