Event photography for arts, cultural and community organisations
I work with arts, cultural and community organisations to provide high quality, impactful images that tell a story. Based in Birmingham, you’ll find me working across the Midlands, and I’m happy to travel UK-wide. Services include photography for:
Festivals, outdoor arts and live performance
Schools programmes, workshops and performances
Exhibitions and gallery openings
One-off arts and cultural events, workshops or networking
Documentation of longer-term community or creative programmes and residencies
For availability, pricing and booking, simply drop me message via my contact form below and I will be in touch.
Photography for
for arts, cultural & community events
I work with arts, cultural and community organisations to provide high quality, impactful images that tell a story. Based in Birmingham, you’ll find me working across the Midlands, and I’m happy to travel UK-wide. Services include photography for:
Festivals, outdoor arts and live performance
Schools programmes, workshops and performances
Exhibitions and gallery openings
One-off arts and cultural events, workshops or networking
Documentation of longer-term community or creative programmes and residencies
For availability, pricing and booking, simply drop me message via my contact form below and I will be in touch.
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An an experienced photographer, I understand the importance of capturing the full story of your event, programme or performance. I always ensure photos share the atmosphere, emotions and energy of your project.
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Professionalism runs throughout my work, providing you with high quality images whilst working in a subtle, unobtrusive manner. With a wealth of experience photographing community and creative events, I work with a sensitvity to the environment - for example navigating image permissions, finding creative solutions if participants cannot have their faces on camera, working within school environments that require an additional level of scrutiny and restriction, or working within quiet environments such as performances or rehearsals.
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Next day highlights will be provided, or same day highlights on request. This is followed by the full gallery within 5 working days.
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Event images will be polished and marketing-ready, able to be adapted and used into the future across a varied range of communications channels. Images will be provided in both full resolution and a resized format, optimised for digital channels.
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As standard, I provide a varied, compreshesive range of images to really capture the feel of your event or programme. If you have a shot list, specific images you need or event elements you'd like me to know about, I would love to hear about it. Ahead of your project, I will arrange a short call to run through your plans, understand your needs and make sure we are prepped and ready to go.
“We thoroughly enjoyed working with Hayley, who has photographed several of our projects. Her photographs fully portray our work effectively and are an asset to our website, social media etc.
Hayley captures the moment beautifully. Her approach is considered and thoughtful. This starts at the beginning of the process where she actively listens to your requirements and composes a brief around this. She is fully engaged during the photoshoot, with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the project. She has a clever knack of putting people at ease and capturing their personality.Professionalism runs thought out her work, from initial conversation, to receiving the final images which are well organised and categorised.”
The Dual Works
“We’ve used Hayley and her photography expertise to capture the essence of our education work over multiple projects & residencies. She understands the brief and is particularly good at working in situations where she needs to get high quality shots where only a few young people have photo permissions. She has taken images in a range of art and craft forms and we have used her photographic work to market our work both in printed and online media forms.
She is very easy to work with, flexible and has ideas which enhance your initial creative concept. Her photography is particularly good at capturing movement and she has worked with our dance artists in rehearsals as well as with groups of young people in action at an event.
A lot of our work involves working in schools and she is at ease with the additional level of scrutiny and restriction.Hayley is both professional and personable as well as being able to work quickly and adapt if needed which is just the combination you look for when working with schools, creatives, children and young people.
We certainly hope continue working with Hayley going forward and would recommend her unreservedly to others.”
Gillian Twaite, Sampad South Asian Arts & Heritage
“We’ve used Hayley and her photography expertise to capture the essence of our education work over multiple projects & residencies. She understands the brief and is particularly good at working in situations where she needs to get high quality shots where only a few young people have photo permissions. She has taken images in a range of art and craft forms and we have used her photographic work to market our work both in printed and online media forms.
She is very easy to work with, flexible and has ideas which enhance your initial creative concept. Her photography is particularly good at capturing movement and she has worked with our dance artists in rehearsals as well as with groups of young people in action at an event.
A lot of our work involves working in schools and she is at ease with the additional level of scrutiny and restriction. Hayley is both professional and personable as well as being able to work quickly and adapt if needed which is just the combination you look for when working with schools, creatives, children and young people.
We certainly hope continue working with Hayley going forward and would recommend her unreservedly to others.”
Gillian Twaite, Sampad South Asian Arts & Heritage
“Hayley is a skilled photographer - she documented a participatory project sharing with a workshop for us. At the end Hayley took beautiful portraits of the community participants proudly wearing the jewellery pieces they had made. She got engaging shots of the event and was very personable and approachable with everyone. Hayley relaxed all of the nervous participants, so much so that several that had insisted they didn’t want their portraits taken started queuing up to take part! She is extremely reliable, and provides great, high quality images in an excellent timeframe."
Emma Daker, Craftspace
“We thoroughly enjoyed working with Hayley, who has photographed several of our projects. Her photographs fully portray our work effectively and are an asset to our website, social media etc.
Hayley captures the moment beautifully. Her approach is considered and thoughtful. This starts at the beginning of the process where she actively listens to your requirements and composes a brief around this. She is fully engaged during the photoshoot, with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the project. She has a clever knack of putting people at ease and capturing their personality.
Professionalism runs thought out her work, from initial conversation, to receiving the final images which are well organised and categorised.”
Dual Works
“Hayley is a skilled photographer - she documented a participatory project sharing with a workshop for us. At the end Hayley took beautiful portraits of the community participants proudly wearing the jewellery pieces they had made. She got engaging shots of the event and was very personable and approachable with everyone. Hayley relaxed all of the nervous participants, so much so that several that had insisted they didn’t want their portraits taken started queuing up to take part! She is extremely reliable, and provides great, high quality images in an excellent timeframe."
Emma Daker, Craftspace