Kind words from wonderful clients. Everything they loved about their family photography shoot. Read their reviews here.
Helen Bartlett has been photographing families, newborns, babies and children in London and across the UK since 2003. These are reviews from her clients – many of whom return year after year, building up a photographic record of their family growing up. What you’ll find here isn’t a single session and goodbye; it’s a long-term relationship with a photographer who becomes part of the family.
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Helen is a gem!
We wanted to document our first London trip with our toddlers and after looking through numerous IG photos for photographers, hers stood out. She is so charming to work with and great with kids! Her speciality is black and white photos which is so classic. She captured the joys of childhood so perfectly! Annnd it’s true that black and white photos makes any miss matched outfit (like ours) looks stunning! Highly recommend Helen and we will definitely have her do our family photos again!
– Alyssa
We adore our photographs
We’ve worked with Helen twice and both times it has felt like an old friend coming over for a catch up, then a few weeks later being presented with the most beautiful, emotionally spectacular photographs of you precious family. We adore our photographs, true pieces of artwork. Helen was simply wonderful. Nothing was too much/too annoying/too slow (or if it was she hid it well!). I really appreciated the advice on what to wear and how to be (simply ourselves). Andrea, her colleague who supports with presenting the pictures to you, is equally professional and knowledgeable with no question too much! Highly recommend.
– Sara
From the moment Helen joined us we knew it was going to be a great day
We met Helen for our family photoshoot on one of the hottest days of this summer. My husband’s seventieth birthday was coming up and we wanted to capture our growing family just at that point, especially our six-week-old twin granddaughters and their three-year-old sister. From the moment Helen joined us that morning we knew it was going to be a great day. She is consummately professional, warm, funny and extremely good at her job. We had wanted a very relaxed family session and that’s what we got…the photographs are quite simply amazing! When Andrea came to our house and showed us the file we shed tears of happiness at the pure loveliness and honesty of the images. We will treasure our beautiful album and all the framed photos of our family for the rest of our lives. And so will our children and grandchildren. We cannot recommend Helen highly enough. Thank you, Helen.
– Caroline
Helen is incredible.
She has photographed our family every few years since our children were born, so for over a decade now. Her ability to keep every one relaxed, connect with the family, and above all to extract the most amazing photographs is really incredible.
– Rob
Helen has just photographed our family for the fourth time and we are thrilled with the pictures
She has a wonderful knack of making shoots relaxed and fun enabling her to capture our children’s characters perfectly. She even managed to get multiple photos of teenagers smiling, mucking around and clearly enjoying themselves. Her attention to detail curating and selecting the photos, frames and albums is incredible. We love the finished product!
– Elizabeth
Helen was fantastic.
We were absolutely thrilled to have Helen come and take a beautiful set of photos of our daughter. Helen was fantastic – she worked around the chaos of a newborn and was very sensitive to the challenging routine of feeds and changes.
The photographs are perfect. We love the natural style. The closest thing to a problem we have is that Helen has taken so many beautiful photographs, we are finding it tricky to pick favourites!
– Beth
We cannot recommend her highly enough.
Helen seems to be part of our family – having been the photographer at our wedding, she has now seen our family grow and has photographed both our young children. She is fantastic, a natural! She puts everyone at ease and captures the most amazing moments.
We cannot recommend her highly enough. You just need lots of wall space in your home for all the photos as it’s impossible to choose!
– Susie
The pictures are happy and so reflective of the relationships between different family members.
Our eldest son went to university this October. It struck me before he left that it was a very long time since we had a good family photograph taken. I trawled the web looking for something different than the formal posed pictures we had taken previously. I came across Helen’s website and loved how natural the pictures were and the way she captured so much personality of the people she photographed.
We were not disappointed. The whole experience was so much fun, as we walked around the beech woods. It was like going for a walk with a friend. She then came back to our house and took pictures as we made music.
The pictures are happy and so reflective of the relationships between different family members, with cheeky glances, knowing looks, giggles, laughter and friendship. I will really treasure these pictures and the wonderful way she captured the essence of my precious family.
– Davina
The result is a collection of beautiful and sensitive images of a fleeting and magical time in our lives.
We had a great day with Helen. She had Joshua completely engaged for hours, and we ended up with a whole load of fantastic photos. Most importantly we felt completely relaxed and there was lots of laughter during the time Helen was with us. She’s a natural with little ones, and even I felt OK having my photo taken!
The pictures are so beautiful. The photographs completely capture the very essence of Joshua’s personality, which is exactly what we wanted.
The result is a collection of beautiful and sensitive images of a fleeting and magical time in our lives. The album is a real work of art and a great keepsake, all of our friends always comment on how beautiful it is!
– John
Helen was very accommodating of my tiny baby’s feeding needs.
Helen came and took some photographs of us as a family, not long after our daughter was born. Helen and my 8-year-old son hit it off straight away, which helped a great deal in making the shoot a very relaxing and pleasant time. Helen was very accommodating of my tiny baby’s feeding needs – and that day all she wanted to do was feed!
The photographs that Helen took were just stunning and will be treasured by all of us. Having seen photos that friends have had done by other photographers there just isn’t a comparison really – Helen’s images are amazing.
So, if you are looking at investing in some photographs of your family that you can treasure forever, I cannot think of a better person to go to than Helen.
– Alison
I would recommend her without hesitation.
Helen has taken two sets of photographs for us, and we were absolutely thrilled with the results. Somehow, she managed to capture our daughter’s personality, and the photographs look so natural and happy – they are a joy.
Helen has a lovely way of making the session effortless, but she is always thinking about the composition and it means so many shots look as if they come straight out of a magazine, they are so well put together.
Many friends have asked for her details and I would recommend her without hesitation.
– Sarah
She takes photos that are breathtaking.
Helen is simply brilliant when it comes to photography. She takes photos that are breathtaking. They are so natural and really capture the moment which is really precious especially when it comes to photos of babies, children and families.
I was very happy with the photo quality, service, speed and professionalism with which Helen and her staff worked to produce the most amazing photos of our family.
– Megumi
