The work, as it happens.
Offices, labs and workshops photographed while people get on with the job. The result is a library you can use all year: annual report, website, recruitment, press.
- Rate
- £480 half day, £880 full day
- First hour
- £180, then £100 an hour
- Typical use
- Annual report, website, recruitment, press
- Approach
- Documentary, unstaged, around the work
- Rights
- Full commercial usage included
- Covering
- East Anglia, national for multi-site
Documentary, not staged
The quickest way to make a workplace look false is to arrange it. Six people gathered round one laptop, all pointing at the screen. Nobody believes it, and neither does the person reading your annual report.
I work the other way. You carry on with the day, I move through it, and the pictures come out of what was already happening. That takes longer than staging, and it needs a photographer who can read a room and stay out of the way, which is most of what 27 years buys you.
What one day usually produces
A typical full day covers the building, the teams inside it, several environmental portraits and a set of detail frames: hands at work, equipment, the things that make your organisation specifically itself rather than any office anywhere. That mix is what a designer needs when they are laying out a report and need something to fill a half page.
Labs, workshops and controlled areas
A good part of my work is in places with rules: containment labs, engineering workshops and plant growth facilities. I follow whatever the site requires, keep clear of the bench, and shoot around the protocol rather than asking anyone to break it. If your safety officer wants a conversation first, that is normal and I am happy to have it.
Getting the pictures
Every frame I deliver is edited individually rather than run through a batch preset. They arrive in a private online gallery with free high-resolution downloads, full commercial rights, and enough life left in the link that people can still find it a year later.
Common questions
What is corporate photography actually for?
It is the picture library your organisation runs on: the website, the annual report, recruitment, press releases, LinkedIn, bids and internal comms. One day of shooting usually supplies a year of that material, which is cheaper than commissioning it piece by piece.
Will it disrupt the working day?
No. I work around what is already happening rather than staging it. People carry on with the meeting, the experiment or the build, and I photograph it. Nothing is set up except when a specific shot needs it.
Can you photograph in a laboratory or a workshop?
Yes, regularly. I have worked in labs at Abcam, AstraZeneca and Cambridge Plant Sciences, and in workshops at the Cambridge University Engineering Department. I follow whatever the site requires on safety and access.
How long does a shoot take?
Most workplace shoots are a half day of 4 hours at £480, or a full day of 8 hours at £880. A single space or a small team can be done in the first hour at £180.
Do we own the pictures?
You get full commercial usage and reproduction rights with every booking, in every medium, with no expiry and no per-use fee. The files sit in a private gallery you can hand to a designer or an agency.
Tell me the date
Send the date, the venue and roughly what you need. I will come back with availability and a price, usually the same day.
- Emailjeanluc.benazet@gmail.com
- Phone+44 (0) 7811 512422
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