Bookings
Three things I shoot, one short form, and a reply from me — not an auto-responder. Everything you need to decide is on this page.
What you can book
If what you need sits somewhere between these, send the form anyway and describe it in your own words. I’d far rather read that than have you try to pick the closest box.
From R3,000 · 35–45 minutes
For anyone who has never much liked a photograph of themselves. Fully directed, so you’re never left standing there wondering what to do with your hands.
Individuals, couples, personal branding. It tends to turn into something more than a photoshoot — most people arrive apologising for their own face and leave standing differently.
Quoted per project
Campaign and brand imagery for brands and agencies. Eleven years of it — including four consecutive years photographing the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award South Africa, and the factory-floor shoot for Mo’s Crib.
I travel with full production capability, so the setup comes to the shoot rather than the other way round.
Quoted per project
Hotels, lodges and short stays — the photography your website, your listings and your socials actually run on.
Rooms matter, but a property being used is what sells it, and that’s the part most hotel photography misses entirely.
How it works
Two minutes. Nothing you write is too vague — “I don’t really know what I want yet” is a completely normal place to start.
Within two working days, with a quote and usually a question or two. If I’m travelling it might be three, and I’ll say so.
Then I send you everything you need beforehand — where to be, what to bring, what the time actually looks like. No surprises on the day.
30–40 edited images, two to three weeks later, in a private gallery you can download from at full resolution.
Where I am
Cape Town, the Lowveld, Dahab and Cairo come round regularly, and I take a limited number of sessions in each place.
If I’m already going to be where you are, it costs you considerably less than bringing me there. Worth checking before you ask.
Before you ask
No. I closed it in 2026 and I’ve relocated since. I’m not taking sessions in the Vaal and I don’t have plans to work there again.
If you found me through an older listing or an old recommendation, this page is the current version of things. On the rare occasion I’m passing through, it’ll show up on my travel dates.
No, and I hear it within the first forty seconds of nearly every session. Here’s the thing nobody says out loud: models aren’t photogenic either. They’re practised. It’s a skill, and they learned it over years in front of a lens.
My job is to give you the short version — clear direction, a demonstration when that’s quicker than explaining, and honest encouragement the whole way through.
We work it out together before the day, usually from what’s already in your wardrobe. If you’d like to think about it in advance, I wrote a whole piece on it.
Portrait sessions are deliberately broad — individuals, couples, personal branding, boudoir. What they have in common isn’t the category, it’s the approach: directed, unhurried, and built around the person in front of me rather than a package name.
So tell me what you’re actually after rather than trying to label it. If it isn’t something I’m the right person for, I’ll say so plainly and point you somewhere better.
Let me be straight with you: I’m not a wedding photographer. It isn’t where my work lives, and there are people who do it far better than I would.
That said — I do take the occasional one on special request, usually for people close to me, and there’s a chance I’ll shoot a small number in Dahab. So it’s a quote-and-a-conversation rather than a yes or a no. Ask, and I’ll give you an honest answer.
On request, yes — but I don’t have a studio of my own any more, so the space would be hired in for the shoot and costed into the quote.
Most of what I do now happens on location, and honestly, the pictures are usually better for it.
Usually, yes. I travel with everything a shoot needs, so location is rarely the obstacle people expect. Check my travel dates first — if I’m already headed your way, it’s a far cheaper conversation.
Two to three weeks is comfortable for a portrait session. Commercial and hospitality work needs longer, and travel dates fill first — so if you’re working around a trip of mine, start there.
That said, ask anyway. Gaps open up, and I’d far rather tell you no than have you not ask.
We move it, or we work with it. Overcast light is genuinely lovely for portraits and I’ll happily shoot in it. Properly unworkable weather means a new date, no drama.
Enquire
Everything on this page is how I actually work, not how it reads best. If something here doesn’t fit what you need, say so in the form and we’ll work it out from there.
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