Corporate headshots in France
A team page fails when twenty portraits were taken twenty different ways. Consistency is the deliverable; the individual portrait is the easy part.
- From
- €90/person
The session
The set matters more than the portrait
Look at any team page that does not work and the cause is the same: the portraits were taken at different times, by different people, with different crops and different backgrounds. Each one may be fine. Together they read as disorder.
So we fix the parameters before the first frame and hold them for everyone: distance, focal length, background, height of the eyes in the frame, treatment. The result is a page that looks like one company.
Why it happens at your offices
A studio means travel, a booking and half a day gone for each person. On site, people come down for twenty minutes and go back to work. We need a room with three metres of depth; the lighting arrives with us.
The practical consequence is that the whole team actually gets photographed, rather than the two thirds who could make the appointment.
Consent is per person
Every individual signs their own release, and it can be withdrawn later. This is not paperwork for its own sake: an employee who has left and asked to be removed must be removable, and the licence in the quote says what happens then.
Around the session
Companies photographing their premises or an event at the same time should see the corporate event coverage listed in the options above, and the pricing page for the ranges.
Teams that also want the people in them photographed off duty — a founder’s portrait for a profile, a family session as a benefit — will find those on the family photographer page. For visiting colleagues with an afternoon spare in the capital, a Paris photoshoot runs on the same day rate and needs no studio either.
Everything above is arranged in English, and the about page says who turns up and where they are based.
Price
From €90/person per person, decreasing with team size. A deposit of 30% confirms the date; the balance falls due on delivery.
What holds you back
The questions people hesitate to ask
- Half our team hates being photographed
- Almost every team does, and the fix is duration. Twenty minutes is long enough to get past the first stiff frames and short enough that nobody dreads it. People who have seen a colleague come back unbothered arrive in a different frame of mind.
- We have people in several offices
- We shoot each site with the same setup, the same framing and the same treatment, and the set holds together. Written parameters are what makes that possible; without them, two sites always drift apart.
- Somebody is going to be absent
- Somebody always is. A follow-up session is quoted at the outset for exactly this, and it reproduces the original parameters so the new portraits sit alongside the old ones without standing out.
- Our offices are not photogenic
- They do not need to be. A plain wall, a neutral background or a controlled blur are all we use, and none of them require an attractive room. If you want the premises visible, that is a different brief and we shoot it separately.
- Who owns the images and how may we use them?
- The licence is written into the quote: what you may publish, where, and for how long. Each person photographed signs a separate consent, and it can be withdrawn — which is a requirement, not a courtesy.
How it runs
How it works
The brief, in one call
Background, framing and dress code agreed before the day, and written down. A team where half arrived in jackets and half in t-shirts cannot be repaired afterwards.
A room, not a studio
We need about three metres of depth and a door. Any meeting room works; the lighting comes with us, so the office does not have to look like anything.
A schedule people can keep
Twenty-minute slots, sent as a list you circulate. People come down, sit, and go back to work — nobody waits in a corridor for an hour.
One treatment for all
Selection with you, then identical processing across the set, delivered within 48 to 72 hours in web and print sizes.
Full gallery delivered within 48 to 72 hours.
Pricing
What it costs
€90–€150/person
- Duration
- 20 min
- Delivery
- 48 to 72 hours
- Deposit
- 30%
TODO_TVA
Included
- A short call to agree background, framing and dress code
- Setup on site, portable lighting, no studio required
- Around twenty minutes per person
- Uniform treatment across the whole set, web and print exports
Options
Questions
Frequently asked
How long do you need for a team of thirty?
One working day, with slots spread across it. Beyond about forty people a second day is better than a compressed one — the last portraits of an overloaded day are visibly worse than the first.
Do you shoot for English-speaking companies based in France?
Routinely. The brief, the schedule and the direction on the day are all in English, and the licence terms are written in English alongside the French quote.
Can new joiners be added later?
Yes. We keep the parameters for each client — background, distance, focal length, lighting, treatment — so a portrait made a year later matches. That is the point of writing them down.
Tell us about the day
Describe what you want to keep from it. You get back a written proposal with a figure in it, not a catalogue.