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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Quickly builds a great rapport with the children.
Helen combines the ability to quickly build a great rapport with the children – putting them at ease so they are free to relax and express themselves – with the ability to take wonderful pictures which manage to capture the essence of the child and the moment.
– Tom
I felt totally relaxed and confident in Helen’s professional ability.
Despite having a deep-seated phobia of having my photograph taken, I enjoyed every moment of our photo shoot with Helen. From the moment we met, I felt totally relaxed and confident in Helen’s professional ability. She has a natural ease with children and my daughter was completely her normal self throughout; the pictures capture all her usual lovely, quirky expressions.
Spending time with Helen viewing the final images was extremely helpful and her suggestions for prints were very much appreciated. I would highly recommend the whole experience to anyone wanting beautiful real-life images of their family or friends.
– Andrea
Memories of a family day, not a family photo shoot.
Being a children’s photographer myself, I had high hopes and expectations of how Helen would approach our shoot and what she would come up with. I was not disappointed.
The measure of a social documentary photographer is their ability to get cracking images that convey the spirit of what is happening with no interference in those events. We hardly noticed that Helen was there, and the memories of the day that Helen came to photograph us are of a family day, not a family photography shoot.
But the real proof is always in the pudding – and for that just look at the images!
– Anna
Unobtrusively capturing the essence of your child.
For me, the sign of a great children’s photographer is someone who is so unobtrusive that they capture the essence of your child without them even realising that they are being photographed. Helen is one such photographer – she always manages to produce great shots of my children.
Helen’s beautiful black and white photographs are framed and scattered throughout my home, and we’ve already scheduled our next shoot for the autumn. I cannot recommend Helen highly enough.
– Joanna
