The model is a vital part of our work. They heighten the emotional connection between our client’s hat and the viewer /buyer. Without an emotional connection the buyer won’t buy.
The Portrait Kitchen has one goal. To photograph your hats so they look even more stunning.
We photograph hats to create an emotional connection between your hats and your clients.
Hi and thank you for visiting our site. We are Jon and Anjee, a UK based couple with one goal; to create great hat images for the millinery community. We love photographing beautiful hats on beautiful women. A hat is a fashion statement and we want to help you embolden that statement so your work shines.
We provide a full end to end image design service from discovery, conceptualising your shoot, model management, image capture, edit/retouch, output (web and print) as well as answering any questions you have. We provide a one stop solution to milliners who want to take their hat images to the next level.
We have millinery clients from all over the world who send us their hats to be professionally photographed so if you can ship it, we can shoot it.
We also provide one to one photography coaching if you want to skill up your own photographs.
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Donna Hartley Millinery
The Portrait Kitchen is a great way for us to get professional photos of our hats taken. The professionalism of Jon and Anjee is superb. They project managed the whole shoot for us. We have a way we want things done and both Jon & Anjee delivered on that brilliantly. Milliners around the world can take advantage of this service however much we want to keep these gems a secret.
Donna and Joanne
Jane Fryers Millinery
Jon shot some of the most beautiful and striking images I have seen of my hats. We talked on the phone before the shoot and he sent me photographs of a good selection of models. Those we chose were all lovely and highly professional. I decided to use a make up artist and the lady Jon introduced me to was incredibly talented and was a real asset to the shoot.
We had a busy but relaxed and laughter-filled afternoon with lots of tea and cake, and everyone was delighted with the end results.
Jane Fryers
Gemma Holley Millinery
“Anjee and Jon have a great set up that they have built in their large kitchen. It is so homely and welcoming. There is none of the fuss and formality of a large photo studio. It feels more like you are visiting friends.
Anjee is always on hand to help keep the show on the road with the models and MUA and I was encouraged to take an active part in the styling so I got exactly what I wanted.
Jon really understands how to use light with his photography to make so my hats stood out.
If you want to take your millinery to the next level with magazine quality images that you can then use for marketing I can’t recommend Jon and Anjee highly enough.”
Gemma Holley
Margaret Woodliff Wright Millinery
Jon and Anjee shot product style images of several of my millinery pieces in September 2020.
At The Portrait Kitchen, by their characteristic passionate attention to detail, Jon and Anjee offer a wrap-around photographic service creating stunning portrait style images which highlight and enhance the creativity of a milliner’s work. One of Jon’s specialities is to create drama, using contrast back drops to highlight, in my case, millinery and through his clever use of lighting he appears to almost effortlessly create images that bring your product to life.
Jon edits the images he shoots and then provides a WeTransfer file of the images, in the size you require. His flexible friendly operation is characterised by huge professionalism and dedication to the his art of photography.
Thank you both so much.
Margaret Woodliff Wright
Sarah Ross Millinery
“Great opportunity to work with a creative team who have an extensive knowledge of millinery photography. Jon and Anjee have really thought their offering through and are so welcoming. I’d highly recommend them.”
Sarah Ross Millinery