Venture Leeds

• About us
• Contact information
• Meet the team
• Customer reviews

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  Mark - Studio Owner & Manager

  Studio and business owner Mark, has over 30 years of experience in the family portrait industry.  He began his career as a junior photographer working his way through every possible photographic scenario imaginable with a wealth of outside business experience leading him to become the captain of our ship and a proper marketing guru, steering everyone, from client to colleague, through the waters with a safe pair of hands on the wheel. He’s brill to work with, not only because he gives every one of us an adequate free reign allowing, under his ultimate control, our creative talents to come to the fore ..but he buys the cookies too! A perfectionist in everything he does with a keen eye to ensuring the experience for both client and staff in the studios is a pretty fine one!

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  Lewis - Head of Photography

  The ‘Big Man’ Lewis – a gentle giant of a man with a deep laugh and a huge sense of fun. Lewis heads up our photography team with a wealth of world-wide training, experience and genuine care for his clients which, when combined with his natural talent, his penchant for fine art practices, and the most incredible pet photography we have ever seen, makes him a legend throughout the team and a pleasure to work with every day. Lewis has been with the Venture Photography group for some years but still manages to keep his work fresh, personalised and of the utmost calibre as he takes us to the next level.

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  Anj - Head of Bookings & Viewings

  It’s Anj that starts your journey – making your booking, asking loads of ‘bonkers and bizarre’ questions to ensure your photographer has all the information about your  family before you come in to plan the session so we  ‘shoot to suit’. Anj’s purpose is to ensure Venture Leeds is not a ‘conveyor belt’ operation and every client experience is personalised to get the best results. Anj finishes your journey too, she heads up the viewing room team – she is trained to style the final photographic results with a professional eye for display, coordinating your chosen images with the best frames, mount style  and size of wall art pieces for your home, totally under client instruction but with a keen eye to getting the perfect end result on the wall. A sort of ‘Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen’ with slightly less facial hair?? A mine of professionally suggested style tips if you need them to get the very best results on the wall.

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  Holly - Bookings & Front of house

  Holly specialises in taking care of our ‘new mum and dad’ clients organising studio sessions to capture the special ‘bump’ photographs even before baby’s arrival,  to tiny newborn photography shoots with parents and grandparents too. It’s Holly who will make the longer bookings needed to allow our team of photographers extra time to capture the earliest collection of the best tiny baby images, often at very short notice should the baby decide to arrive early. Holly’s bright and fun, and as mum to Louie can relate easily to the trials and tribulations of being a new parent.

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  Sarah - Viewings Consultant

  A fairly recent addition to the Venture Leeds team. As mum to Willow, Sarah juggles home and work life, spending her weekends in our viewing room guiding our clients around our gallery of wall portraits, and helping with ideas to design and personalise everything from simply elegant framed photographs right through to fine art photography in every size, shape and finish  you can imagine.

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  Makenzie - Head of production / digital artist

  Makenzie is probably one of the most organised, focussed people we have working in the studio. Makenzie looks after editing and cropping images to suit our clients individual needs for their piece for the wall, looking at every minute detail of every photograph – she prepares images for printing at the lab and it is her eye for detail that we rely on for the overall quality of all our work! In her spare time our lovely Makenzie cares for her house trained rabbit, who, yes, has been for a visit and she is a jewellery designer – check out her quirky style and take a glance at her sensationally stylish ear rings when you visit.

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  Alice - Photographer & digital artist

  Soft and gentle Alice – a photographer of extraordinary ability. She is the ‘quiet one’ of the team and yet an absolute powerhouse of calm yet exceptional talent.  Alice goes out of her way to ensure her client’s needs are met in a welcoming and tranquil environment  gaining a photographic result beyond words. It’s Alice’s work that brings a tear to the eye for many a parent at the viewing, and has a couple of the viewers reaching for a tissue too! You think we’d be hardened to it all by now? – not a chance when Alice is at work. She catches us off guard with her easy use of your accessories, achieving  the softer shots that mums and dads love so much of their precious family members.

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  Ruby - Photographer

  ‘Rubes’  A true asset to the Venture Leeds team with her bubbly fun personality and her determination to be the best of the best. Ruby has an extremely keen eye when it comes to selecting the best of the photographs from a shoot to add to a viewing presentation. She has a degree and is now undertaking, at incredible speed, the full Venture Academy training programme which she attacks with gusto incorporating her own ideas, energy and artistic integrity, listening to the client brief and interpreting the instruction as only a Venture team member can do.

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  Kath - Exhibition

  Another cornerstone of the Venture Leeds operation, a staff member for over twenty years, who looks after our exhibition stand with the sunniest of personalities, and the kindest of dispositions. Kath is a mine of Venture information and detail, spending her time travelling to  stunning exhibition and country fair locations to spread the word about the importance of capturing family memories for generations to come. Smile sweetly at Kath.. she sometimes has vouchers to GIVE AWAY!

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  Sunny

  Yes, we have a rabbit! His name Sunny and he visits on a regular basis sitting in his little house at his ‘mummy’ Makenzie’s feet in our edit suite. He’s fully ‘house/studio’ trained and has the most amazing calming relaxing influence on us all just by being with us. He shares our ‘five-a-day’ veggies and has a penchant for sweetcorn. We just love him to bits.