Helen Bartlett — Awards, Press, Publications and Speaking

Helen Bartlett on the stage for Canon at The Photography Show in 2024

Canon Ambassador, awards, and my family photography work published around the world

I’m Helen Bartlett, an award-winning newborn, baby and family photographer based in London, and the only family photographer among the 82 photographers selected across Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Canon Ambassador programme, a role I’ve held since 2018.

Since founding Helen Bartlett Photography in 2003, my recent awards include:

First and Second Place, Berlin Photo Awards, Family Photography category, 2026
Best Black and White Family Photographer London, Top 100 Awards, 2026
Best Family Photographer 2025 UK, LuxLife Creative and Visual Arts Awards
Family Photographer of the Year 2026, London and South East England Prestige Awards

My work is widely published in the photographic press nationally and internationally, including a seven-page feature in Digital Camera Magazine (Issue 297, August 2025), an eight-page article in Profi Foto Magazine, Hungary (May 2018), and coverage in Photoworld China (June 2013).

Here, you can browse a selection of magazine spreads, guest blogs, event pictures and book extracts featuring my work.

To read what my clients say about working with me, visit my reviews page.

Double page spread from eight page feature article on Helen Bartlett in Photo Plus: The Canon Magazine. Issue 144 October 2018.

Online article by Helen Bartlett for Click Community in the USA on ‘Why I choose to shoot in black and white’. Published January 2015.

A multi-page feature interview on Helen Bartlett and her family photography work in The Big Photo E-Zine, the magazine of The Photography Academy, June 2018.

Kit for Purpose Professional Photo Magazine

Article on Helen Bartlett’s equipment choices and techniques she uses to create her award winning family photography in Professional Photo Online Magazine March 2025.

Feature article on Helen Bartlett’s family photography work in Digital Camera World online March 2026.

Helen Bartlett interviewed for an online masterclass on Family Photography for Canon Club the online community of Canon photographers. An hour long interview filmed at Canon Europe’s HQ in Stockley Park and then published online July 2024.

Showcasing Helen Bartlett’s equipment on the Shootkit website which looks at the equipment professional photographers use to create their images. Published July 2022 showcasing equipment list from 2018.

Eight page feature interview on Helen Bartlett’s family photography in the influential Photoworld magazine in China, Volume 378, June 2013

Helen Bartlett on the stage at Photokina (the world’s largest imaging show) in Cologne as part of my role as Canon Ambassador. Her talk, titled ‘Great Family Photos and How to Take Them’ was delivered five times over the course of the show.

A four page feature article on Helen Bartlett’s family photography work in Click Magazine in the USA. Issue 25, November 2016.

A case study on Helen Bartlett’s family photograph work in the recent book Mastering Children’s Photography by Richard Bradbury published May 2019.

Helen Bartlett’s review of the Canon EOS R published in Professional Imagemaker magazine. Issue 99 October-November 2018.

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