After the success of the first Employability & Enterprise Professional photo shoot in January 2015, I had the pleasure of photographing more of the team in the studio. The E&E team loved the first shoot, that I kept the style very similar for this shoot as a continuity of the project. The aim of this shoot was to create a more professional outwards appearance, especially as the Employability and Enterprise team are representing and working with businesses, students, graduates and academics - this shoot was a great way to show off their professionalism and of course their (glamorous) sophisticated style! Many of these images are used as their LinkedIn profile, Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles as well as internal email address thumbnail. Taken 25 Feb 2015 in Southampton Solent University photo studios.

Lovely team of people, it was a great experience to get back into the studio and photography these beautiful portraits. Also it was an interesting to experience so many different personalities back to back in the space of 2 hours! People's characteristics certainly shine through in front of the camera!

I've been going through my extensive catalogue of many unedited photos and came across these lovely portraits of Shiho Kaneko with make up by Zaynab Bostan. These images were taken on 20 March 2013 during my second year of studying BA Photography at Southampton Solent University. Many of the make up students were creating their final major project images (creative dissertation) and so I worked with talented Zaynab on her 'The Multicultural' project. Her idea was mixing cultures, ethnicities and different make up inspirations on different faces. I really liked her concept and visually exploring multiculturalism through make up and photography. It's been almost 2 years and it's nice going back on old images and refreshing them. I still feel these images are contemporary. I feel Zaynab really worked on bringing out Shiho's beautiful features and making a wonderfully unique look. Certainly fun to work with creative make-up artists and transform the face!

Love doing portraiture so had a great time photographing my colleagues in the Employability & Enterprise team at Southampton Solent University a few weeks ago. Getting back into the studio was a great feeling and creating simple and beautiful portraiture is something I had missed doing. This shoot was prompted by various colleagues who wanted a professional portrait to use on LinkedIn for example and as the employability team in the university, it was good practice we all had up-to-date professional photos. I really enjoyed this shoot as it was a new environment for my colleagues and also to witness me in my element which is portrait photography! I certainly think the grey background in the studio with one source light is one of my favourite set ups.

  

Really wanted to be creative on this shoot and try my hand at creating a head piece made from fresh fruits and flowers. I made the headpiece out of wire and using a necklace from New Look to make the crown over 4-5 hours as well as accessories from Primark. Dresses and neon necklace are from New Look, the necklace worn on Natalie's neck and monochrome earrings is from Topshop and strappy heels are from Zara. I really enjoyed this shoot and working with hair & make up artist to make this shoot come together and working in fashion team. Wanted to keep the clothes quite simple but modern to contrast with the opulent head piece. Inspired by still life painting of exotic fruits from 1500-1800s.