Gallagher Family Portraits

It's a good bet that during the week I'll be shooting a family portrait or two, often more. When the whole family comes together for a shoot, whether it's in the studio or away on location, it's a great opportunity to create something really special that will add significantly to a family's artistic pictorial history. Even as I'm shooting, I can imagine the images we're creating being studiously admired in another 70 or a 100 years - just as today we enjoy looking back on the old photos we all have around our homes, some of them on display in ornate frames, others perhaps stashed in a suitcase in the attic.

The Gallagher family visited the studio a little while before Christmas and I'm grateful to them for granting permission for me to show some of their pictures here, starting with this beautiful shot of the whole family (without doubt one of my favourite images from a busy 2010):



This image of the girls is a thoroughly modern arrangement - don't think I have any old family photos in the attic that were posed like this. I wonder what future generations will make of it:



Here are the boys in a rather more traditional pose:



And finally, mum and dad showing the closeness they've shared down the years:



A lovely family and a real joy to photograph,
David