Your mission deserves images that match it.
Non-profit brands have an interesting problem: the images they can use don't tell the full story of their work, mission, and people. That gap is fixable — and it's about strategic, intentional photography rather than documentation.
I'm a portrait photographer with a background in marketing and brand content strategy — about twenty years of it. When I work with a non-profit, I'm thinking about your mission and your audiences while planning and making photos.
A branding session might mean coming to your space or booking one to photograph your merch, logo, printed materials — the physical stuff that represents your organisation. It might include coming to your event with a specific brief: portraits of the people who make the work happen, the environment your mission lives in, the moments that will mean something to your community and make sense to your donors at the same time. That's different from traditional event photography — it's about furthering your goals, not recording what happens.
My photography background isn't commercial or corporate — it's in portrait work, nature, and street photography. I've learned to notice things in uncontrolled environments. That shapes what the images look like: specific, a bit unexpected, and recognisably yours. Not interchangeable with other organisations.
I also work with words. Voice and tone, brand guidelines, web content — we can build content strategy into the scope of your project so that you have images and words crafted to work together.
Images that work across your whole organisation.
Good brand photography for a nonprofit pulls in several directions at once. You need portraits that feel like real people — not a corporate headshot row. You need images of your project in action, in its real context. And if you have branded merch, a logo, printed materials, or physical objects that represent what you do — those need to look right too.
We can cover all of that in our branding sessions. Portraits of your team, founders, volunteers, and community members. Environmental and mission-in-action photography at your events or in your spaces. The result is a set of images with a consistent feel that actually expresses your organisation's character — your values, your culture, the specific people doing the work. Something you can use on your website, in grant applications, in a campaign, or in a donor email, and that looks like it could only be yours.
Organisations whose work is bigger than their current images suggest.
Small and mid-size non-profits, community organisations, advocacy groups, educational programmes, foundations, cultural institutions. If you're doing work that matters to a specific community — and you're trying to find ways to talk about it to people outside that community, whether that's donors, funders, new volunteers, or the wider public — this is the kind of work I do.
I've spent a long time in the world of communications and brand strategy. I know the particular bind non-profits are in: you need to speak authentically to your community and convincingly to people who write cheques, often in the same sentence. Getting that right takes care about what you're making and why — not just good images, but the right ones.
I'm particularly interested in working with LGBTQIA+ organisations, BIPOC-led groups, and those supporting refugees and people in need.
The branding session.
The branding session starts at $500. Before I pick up a camera, we'll spend proper time talking — I want to understand your mission, your audiences, and what you're actually trying to say. That conversation shapes everything that comes after.
From there, we work out what the session needs to cover: studio time for merch and brand materials, on-location work at your event or in your space, portraits of specific people, or some combination. Travel is included within 30 miles of Lafayette, Indiana or Urbana-Champaign, Illinois — Indianapolis adds $100, Chicago adds $200.
If you need brand and communications work alongside the photography — a style guide, voice and tone, web copy, donor communications — that's scoped separately. Get in touch and we'll talk through what makes sense.
Non-Profit Branding Session
- Extended brand and mission consultation
- Studio or on-location (or a mix of both)
- Portraits, environmental, and merch/branding photography
- High-resolution digital delivery
- Editing always included
- Indianapolis: +$100 | Chicago: +$200
Tell me about your organisation.
What you do, who you're trying to reach, what your current images look like and what you wish they looked like instead. We'll figure out the rest from there.