Portrait Photographer in Glasgow and Central Scotland
For portraits that look like you .
The last few years have seen a surge in AI photography: beautifully rendered images which show you at your very best and your most confident. The simple uploading of a selfie from which you can change the background, your outfit and a few attributes to enhance your natural appearance involves less hassle and less money than booking a professional photographer.
It sounds ideal.
And yet when you walk into a room, do you walk in as a digital projection or as a living entity?
A portrait of you has an advantage over AI imagery: it enables people to recognise you, on multiple levels. Stock photography and AI generated photos would have us believe that our only defining features are gleaming smiles, twinkling eyes and a device or notebook.
The great photographers such as August Sander, Irving Penn, Jo Spence, Richard Avedon, Rineke Dijkstra observed people keenly and knew how to capture the aspects which differentiated one person from another - through the physical traces of their thinking in their hands, face and posture during interaction.
In photographic portraiture, this is what makes you recognisable. You embody a set of behaviours from which you project a persona and an image to the people around you. The closer your professional portraits are to this projection, the more impact you will make when you turn up in person.
People photographed in their own spaces.
Photographs of writers, artists, performers.
Portrait photography across Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Portraits for business owners and personal brands .
Portraits outside the studio.
Environmental portraits in Scotland .
Portraits photographed on location across Scotland.
Hello, I’m Victoria, a professional portrait photographer in Glasgow and Central Scotland.
I’m a Fine Art Photography graduate from the Glasgow School of Art and I have spent years photographing people through personal and commissioned projects and alongside professional work centred around people and communication.
My photography is characterised by portraits photographed outside the studio, in homes, public and working environments. Those spaces are used to form part of the photograph itself.
I love observational portraiture and while I’m photographing, I’m watching posture, gestures, expressions; I’m asking questions, listening, encouraging the people I photograph to think more, explain more, reveal more.
I often produce portrait photographs for writers, artists, performers, business owners, personal brands, academics and therapists.
Victoria Rose Photography
Portrait Photographer in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Central Scotland.
Environmental and observational portrait photography photographed on location across Scotland.