brenna duncan

Every year for the past four, Ann, founder of Double Happiness Studio, books me for a Soulful Shoot to celebrate not just her stunning floral creations but also her son Kiran’s birthday.

This was a bit of a last minute Soulful Shoot earlier this month, and up there with one of my favourites. Mother-daughter coaching duo Jacquie and Ellie needed some brand photography for their new business, The Well Within, which they’re launching very soon.

As soon as I spoke to Luisa, I knew our shoot was going to be something special. She has this incredible vibrancy and energy that I instantly loved. Luisa wanted pops of bright, Mexican-inspired colour in her brand photos, so I knew it would be playful and full of life.

What I love about Gabriela is that she’s a true multi-hyphenate. She offers many different things from 1-2-1 mentoring and coaching to teaching as a university lecturer. When she became a mother, she was determined to shape her work in a way that brought flexibility and balance for her family.

There’s something magical about capturing someone’s essence in photos, and that’s exactly what happened on a sunny South London shoot with Nancy, founder of Anamchara Wellbeing.

A super sunny soulful shoot with breathwork coach and fellow space-holder Nic at… yep, you guessed it… my all-time favourite place to shoot: Walthamstow Marshes! 🌞💫

A warm and homely shoot in East London with Lauren Grace Johns, a coach who guides creatives back to their intuition, helping them embrace their authenticity and produce their most meaningful work.

A stylish and elegant soulful brand shoot in east London with Mariah Sayer, creating a portfolio of images to represent her new business Kallos Acupuncture. Mariah envisioned a brand palette of neutral tones with a minimalist aesthetic, filled with natural light and a sense of closeness to nature.

A Soulful Shoot at home in Hampstead, with Chris Kusuma, a Performance Coach who blends 1:1 coaching with functional breathwork to support high performers in high-pressure environments.

I travelled to Nottingham for a soulful brand shoot with psychotherapist Kamaldeep Chohan, who found the perfect Victorian countryside home to bring her vision to life - a space that reflected the essence of her work - warm, inviting, and safe.

Shooting with Jo was such a joy! Jo is a Transformative Mind and Body Practitioner who has a wealth of experience including TRE® (tension and trauma releasing exercises), nutrigenomics, herbal medicine and she’s also a trauma informed personal trainer and athletics coach!

Loved this September Soulful Shoot with Health and Performance Coach, Marzia Milan, in a beautiful location house in east London. Her online coaching business “Ingegneria del Potenziale” translates as "Engineering of Potential" and will be launching very soon.

A one hour shoot with Julia, a fertility and pregnancy mindset coach and founder of Pineapple Coaching, who supports women with the emotional and practical challenges of trying to conceive.

Author Tania Ahsan’s dream was to take her bright pink armchair to the park, so we did! I love it when a client has an unusual idea for their brand photos and we can collaborate on bringing their vision to life.

Every summer for the past three years I’ve had a Soulful Shoot with Ann, florist and founder of Double Happiness Studio, to celebrate her son Kiran’s birthday and also her incredible floral art.

A bright, colourful and playful Soulful Shoot with Liz Le Breton, a marketing director who works with purpose driven brands who want to create a big impact. Liz chose a full day branding shoot, so we could get a wide range of different shots, outfits, locations and pace the day.

A half day shoot in Notting Hill with Jen Walpole, a Certified Fertility Nutritional Therapist who needed some branding photos for her website, social media, press releases and to help launch her new group programme.

A fun and joyful personal branding shoot in Hackney Wick with Jessica Farrell, an RBM Breathwork Practitioner, who flew over from Ireland for our Soulful Shoot. Everything flowed easily and we had such fun shooting her colourful and vibrant brand portraits. Thank you Jess!

A vibrant and colourful brand shoot in east London with Stephanie Minchin, a clinical psychologist and yoga therapist, also known as The Yoga Psychologist. Launching a new stream of her business called the House of Yoga Psychology, Steph needed some fresh and soulful branding photographs to use across her new website.

A half day Soulful Shoot with interior designer and health coach, Michelle Wilkie, in her incredible jungle like apartment in Hackney… followed by some portraits amongst the beautiful Magnolia trees in Victoria Park. Michelle has just birthed her new business 'Interior Self', which blends holistic health coaching with interior design.

A gorgeous one hour Soulful Shoot with Nutritional Therapist Livia Lai in south west London. Livia helps people take control of their chronic health issues through nutrition, natural medicine and lifestyle changes so that they can live a happier and more fulfilling life.

A half day personal branding Soulful Shoot with Zoe of Burton’s Blooms last week in Wimbledon. Zoe is a wedding florist and offers a young, fresh and modern perspective on wedding flowers. She loves putting together moodboards and working with couples to create floral arrangements which totally exceed their expectations.

A September Soulful Shoot with psychotherapist, poet and writer, Siomar Ballan in west London. Having recently won a publishing contract Siomar was in need of some creative ‘author’ portraits alongside some headshots to use within her private psychotherapy practice.

A one hour Soulful Shoot in west London at holistic co-working space Mission Works, with hypnotherapist and coach Sarah Littlefair. Launching her new website soon, Sarah needed some professional personal branding portraits to elevate her business and get across her personality.

A Soulful Shoot with Shane, a fully qualified Transformational Breath facilitator based in south London. Shane wanted photos of him working with a client, a few portraits plus some shots of his studio (which he built it himself!).

What a blast we had together on this September Soulful Shoot. Bex, a fellow Aries and founder of We Are Soulful, brought so much energy and enthusiasm to her personal brand portraits… her personality really shines through in them and I love what we created.

A super fun, bright and colourful Bristol Soulful Shoot with dream team Carys and Jemma of Carys Captures who are launching their exciting new venture specialising in wedding photography and videography for the LGBTQIA+ community in the south west.

A short but sweet one hour personal branding shoot in Bristol with the brilliant Pip Roberts… yoga facilitator, mentor, Reiki practitioner, sound therapist, creator of Now Studio & wellbeing event curator… plus her gorgeous rescue greyhound Agnes.

A personal branding shoot on a hot summers day with Laura Foster of Light & Shade Acupuncture in the stunning Grade II-listed Pioneer Centre in Peckham.

A one hour personal branding shoot with the lovely Jessamyn, on a cold March day in Shoreditch.

A super fun London brand photography Soulful Shoot with Personal Trainer Maria Atlas in east London. This was Maria’s first professional shoot and she wanted light, bright, neutral and minimal shots to update her website.

Helen, a freelance TV producer and copywriter, has this great vibrant energy about her… I knew we’d have fun on our Soulful Shoot from the second we first chatted about it.

Jess, a qualified Nutritional Therapist, health coach and Transformational Breath facilitator needed some strong new personal brand imagery to use across her website and on social for some personal posts.

When Miranda Cook got in touch with me about a Soulful Shoot for her tarot business The Wootique, I was a HELL YEAH! Not only did she want to shoot in a colourful retro studio, she was up for some arty/ creative/ witchy shots too. Dream client… especially since I have a stack of tarot cards at home too!

Every month a new sign of the zodiac comes into play, and every month I search for someone with that star sign to have a free portrait shoot in London. I look for people running soul-led businesses or those who might need a helping hand getting a foot on the photography ladder.

A very peaceful and zen shoot last month with Homeopath and Craniosacral Therapist, Miranda Robinson in a bright, elegant room in Bloomsbury Square London.

A fun, vibrant Soulful Shoot with Ann, florist and founder of Double Happiness Studio, who blends east with west creating floral aesthetics beyond the ordinary. She’s been featured in The Sunday Times, Time Out & The Vinyl factory… and no wonder, because her flowers are out of this world beautiful!

A jam packed Soulful Shoot last month with Gong, who offer meditation and sound therapy through the power of the gong both online and in person throughout London.

A hot and sunny, June Soulful Shoot in Southsea, Portsmouth with Amy Watt, a Career & Life Coach for senior communications professionals. I always love it when I get to shoot personal branding portraits outside of London, and Portsmouth was no exception.

A colourful spring time shoot with Miranda Matthews, Managing Director of Treatwell UK and Ireland.

Amidst the rainy days and storms of February just gone, I managed to squeeze in a gorgeous Soulful Shoot with Author and Journalist Cat De Lange in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.

What a magical brand shoot in London this was! On the Leo full moon, She’s Lost Control (one of my fave shops) brought together this group of inspirational women to celebrate International Women’s Day.

A November personal branding shoot with Intuitive Meditation Coach Heather Glenny, in her beautiful home in east London.

An October personal branding shoot in Hackney with the brilliantly talented Melissa Burns of Round The Mountain, featuring some pre-Halloween pumpkins!

I spent a sunny September morning exploring Walthamstow Marshes with Tessa Creagh-Barry, taking her personal branding portraits.

A gorgeous morning spent with Melissa Maouris on a personal branding shoot, exploring some picturesque spots in the Waterworks Centre Nature Reserve on Leyton Marshes.

A Soulful Shoot with the lovely Aylin, an ostepath and massage therapist, who recently set up her new business Fulcrum Wellbeing in east London.

I was excited to photograph Kezia earlier this month, taking personal branding photos for her new doula business plus a couple of opera headshots too!

Shooting personal brand photos with Lucy, a personal trainer and expert in all things fitness (calisthenics, Iyengar yoga and pilates to name a few!) was very inspiring.

I’m a photographer and intuitive life coach. I used to struggle getting my head around having a “portfolio career”, often worrying what people would think of me for having two completely different lines of work. I was always searching for a link between the two and then one day it struck me… storytelling!