Tom Law Email & Phone Number

I have a BA (hons) in Photography from Blackpool & Fylde college (Lancaster University) in 2001 and have over 20 years experience shooting and managing teams in-house for creative agencies in the north west.In this time I've had varied experience working in the still life, and advertising photographic industry. The majority of my time has been spent shooting food, advertising, product photography & packaging imagery.I have been in my current role as Head of food & drink photography at THG Studios since 2021. I manage a team of Photographers and Stylists in their personal development, and their day to day work pre-shoot and on set. I am responsible for maintaining the quality and output from the studio and spend a lot of my time liaising with other departments on live projects, pitch & test work for the business.Alongside this I also am on set to shoot for our food and drink clients, mostly on the higher profile projects. From 2010 I worked as Senior Photographer/Studio Manager and then Photographic Director specialising in food, for Equator design, and managing an increasingly busy photographic team shooting for print, packaging, digital and advertising.Within this role I was responsible for a team of Photographers, Stylists and Food Stylists, and working across sites and continents.My duties involved monitoring of workflow and traffic management of projects, booking in jobs to the studio, assigning resource, hiring of freelance staff to cover spikes in workflow. Along with monitoring performance, sickness, studio equipment, setting up of other studios etc.I monitored consistency of shoots within the UK studios, and made sure whilst liaising with our Design Managers, and Creative Directors on international sites that all images adhere to photographic brand guidelines that we have worked together to create. During my time at Equator Design we successfully helped launch rebrands for multiple retailers both here in the U.K and in America. Within these rebrands the photography was essential in establishing the look, feel and personality of the brand.Along with these responsibilities I also maintained a fairly full shoot schedule myself.As expected at close to 20 years in the business I'm proficient in Mac and PC use, Microsoft apps, file management, Capture One & Photoshop.I'm a competent stylist and have styled a lot of shoots myself. I have helped in setting up studios in the U.K, America and also India, and have worked on shoots in the U.K, Europe, and India.I'm interested in any opportunities that you think I'd be suitable for.

Listed skills include Photography, Image Manipulation, Digital Photography, Commercial Photography, and 21 others.