ABOUT
Hello, I'm Kate.
A mother of five, an unlikely photographer, and the woman who will quietly photograph your family.
MY STORY
1,000+
newborns photographed
This was never the plan — and that's exactly why it works.
I didn't come to photography the usual way. My first degree, many years ago, was in veterinary medicine — long hours, small bodies, and a deep respect for how carefully you have to hold a living thing. Then life moved me to London twenty-six years ago, and I retrained as a software engineer because that felt more useful in a new country. For six years I ran a Saturday school in London for nearly three hundred children. Somewhere in the middle of all of that, photography found me.
It started with my own babies. With five of them, I learned early that the days pass quickly and the years even faster, and I wanted to hold onto every soft curl, every furrow of a sleeping brow, every impossibly small hand. The camera became a way of paying attention.
What began as a way to remember my own family became, over eighteen years, a way of being witness to other people's. I've photographed more than a thousand newborns now, across South East London and beyond — and each one still feels like the first.
The veterinary years taught me how to handle something tiny and fragile with absolute care. The years running a school taught me how to be calm in the middle of three hundred children and their anxious parents. The five children at home taught me everything else. All of it quietly shows up in the way I work with your family.
18 yrs
behind the camera
5
children of my own
Trained in newborn safety. Fully insured. DBS checked. Based in Bromley, photographing families across South East and Central London.
I still take each baby into my hands the way I held my own. After a thousand newborns, it still moves me — every time I open the files at my desk, every time I see the first frame come up on screen. I remember every newborn I've photographed. Eighteen years in, that hasn't faded.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Soft, slow, and entirely on your terms.
I arrive at your home quietly, often with a cup of tea, never with a clipboard. Your baby leads the pace — feeds, cuddles, naps, all of it. We work in the rhythm of your morning, with as much or as little posing as your baby allows on the day.
If your older children want to come and go, they can. If your dog wants to lie at your feet, I'll know exactly how to feel about that — I have four of my own. If you need to step away for fifteen minutes, the camera waits. Everything is paced around how your family actually moves through a morning.
By the end, I'll know your baby's small noises, the way you hold them, the smell of your home. And you'll have a set of photographs that, when you open them in twenty years, will bring you right back to this quiet, extraordinary week.
"Photographs aren't about how it looked.
They bring you back to how it felt."
— Kate
WHY AT HOME
A note on how I work — and why.
There's a beautiful tradition of newborn photography done in studios — soft props, neutral backdrops, a curated stillness. It can be lovely, and many photographers do it brilliantly.
My choice is different, and it comes from eighteen years of watching newborns settle. Babies are calmest in the place they already know. The light their mother held them in on the first morning home. The room where the dog sleeps. The bed where everyone has already cried, laughed, and fed at three in the morning. These places already hold the story — I just photograph what's there.
The work itself is the same. I bring studio-quality lighting, a full newborn wardrobe of wraps and gowns, and the props for the classic posed portraits almost every family asks for — wrapped, hands under chin, curled on a soft blanket. The difference isn't that the work is gentler or smaller at home. It's that the baby is in your arms before the session begins, and back in your arms the moment it ends.
In-home sessions also mean no schedule pressure, no transport, no waking a sleeping baby to get to a studio. We work at the pace of your day, with your space and your people. That's not a luxury — it's just what babies need.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT
A photographer who has done this a thousand times. Literally.
To be photographed in your own home — not a studio, not a borrowed location.
The classic newborn portraits — wrapped, posed, hands under chin — done safely, gently, and at the level of someone who has been doing this for eighteen years.
Images you'll still want to live with in fifteen years — not images that look like this year's trend.
Someone who's also a mother. Five times over.
Prints and albums you can hold, not just files on a phone.
A LITTLE MORE
When I'm not behind the camera —
I'm somewhere with a book and tea that's gone cold.
I'm at the table with the man I've been with for thirty years, and our five — mostly grown now — children.
I'm being followed around the house by four dogs and ignored by two cats.
I'm at home in Bromley, where I've built a life over the last twenty-six years.
I'm thinking about how strange and wonderful it is that a veterinary student from another country ended up holding her thousandth newborn — none of which I planned, and most of which I wouldn't change.
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