Biography | Helen Bartlett Photography

I have been a full-time professional photographer since 2003, specialising in children's photography.

I started photographing children in my teens, when I photographed the children who attended the nursery school my mother ran. I would spend a couple of weeks in the nursery taking candid, black and white photographs and then print all the pictures in the darkroom during my summer holidays. It was great fun.

I studied Medieval History at Cardiff University and the University of Cambridge. In the brief (!) moments during term when I wasn't studying I took photographs. In the summer holidays I continued to take child portraits and travelled extensively with my camera taking landscape images. As soon as I graduated I set-up Helen Bartlett Photography and I have never looked back.

I hold my Associateship of the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Royal Photographic Society. I also lecture other photographers on the subject of children’s photography, and have travelled throughout the UK to teach workshops. My work has been published in numerous photographic magazines.

When I am not taking pictures I like to hang out in Cambridge with my partner Tom Catchesides, who is also a photographer. I enjoy cooking, detective fiction, hot baths and long-distance running.

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