Your audience and customers want to know you. I create Linkedin profile pictures and company headshots that look and feel both professional and sit together on your website/brochure. See case study.
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Gavin ParsonsVisual storytelling with a creative edgeSee Portfolio -
Digital Content CreatorEngaging visuals and captivating editorial to tell your stories 
Videography, still images and writing for audience engagementStory telling for the digital age
Creative Services
Working for NGOs, agencies, and commercial organisations, Gavin Parsons creates conversation stunning imagery, infographics and enthralling copy to tell your story.
Image libraries
How to make your organisation stand out? Create your own image library to document all you do? Images look like they belong together in style, creativity and substance. See case study.
Product photography
Product photography is about catching the attention of potential customers. I work with companies to show off their products to engage their audience and create conversations. See case study.
Underwater photography
I am one of the best underwater photographers in the UK. I am at home in the sea and pool and photograph marine life, fashion, babies industry and scientific work.
video
Human made stories are a passion, but my video work is more than telling interesting stories. I am a location videographer utilising the convenience of DSLR cameras. I specialise in adventurous lifestyle video production with an emphasis on underwater, sa angling and outdoor pursuits.
Commercial photography
As a professional commercial photographer, I produce eye catching images to wow your customers and attract new clients. You may want photography for advertsing, a conference, marketing or a website. I add creativity to get your business noticed.
Long term assignments
Some shoots last days, weeks and even months. I am used to photographing over exytended periods to produce, news, reportage and lifestyle photography to suit your needs. Some photography assignments are fragmented and spaced out, others are one off projects. See case study.
Animal photography
Awesome animal photography of wildlife or domesticated creatures. Featered, furred, scaled or finned are all a specialty. You may opt for a portrait style or action or perhaps the creative Brenizer look. Images can be stand alone or a part of a biggest narrative.
Photographic portfolio
People
Gavin Parsons is the best location portrait and headshot photographer in Dorset. He creates headshots, studio portraits, location portraits and lifestyle imagery for businesses, government departments, NGOs and individuals. He travels widely and can be commissioned for anywhere in the UK or the world.
Underwater
Gavin Parsons is one of the best underwater photographers in the UK. He is at home shooting fashion portraits in a pool as he is photographing tiger sharks in the Indian Ocean. The dorset based photographer travels the world to photograph people underwater as well as creatures large and small. He has photographed in the cold water around Canada's Newfoundland and the tropics of the Indian Ocean. He is as happy recording the feeding behaviour of nudibranchs as he is in the caves of the Yucatan. As the ex editor of an International diving magazine, Gavin has a vast experience base of diving destinations and underwater photographic techniques.
Wildlife
As an award-winning wildlife photographer, Gavin Parsons started photographing animals in his youth and continues to this day. In the day's of film, when photography was hard, he concentrated on animal action imagery. Now, he focuses (pardon the pun) on creating works of art.
Domestic animals
As an offshoot for wild animals, Gavin Parsons also photographs domesticated animals such as dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, cows, horses. In fact, if you have an animal you'd like photographed it is possible, so get in touch
Viticulture
The English wine industry is as new as it is old, in that, it's been here for many years, but is only now being recognised. We are in a truely exciting time for English wine and my images can help your brand create a profile that will last into the future.
baby birds
What does a baby pigeon look like? What does a baby blackbird look like? The answer is here. Commercial photographer collaborated with several wildlife rescue centres to create these fine art animal images.
World War One Battlefields
The World War One battlefields are unique places to photograph. The fields of western France and Belgium are littered with monuments to young men who gave their lives 100 years ago. Professional commercial photographer Gavin Parsons wanted to show their sacrifice is still remembered and their place in the landscape is not forgotten.
Sea anglers
Outdoor pursuit photographer and videographer Gavin Parsons has spent his time since moving to dorset documenting people enjoying the coast particularly the sea anglings fishing along Chesil Beach and around Portland.
Film photography
Gavin uses a 100 year old Kodak No.3A Junior camera to photograph 100 year old people. He also saves old negatives and processes film and scans the results to digital format. This is a personal project to ensure the techniques and memories are not lost.
Wildlife under threat
Across the world wildlife is under threat. Climate change, plastic/chemical pollution, illegal pet and commodities trade and habitat loss are gettng more accute. Wildlife is under constant threat from so many fronts. Gavin Parsons documents many of these threats for personal projects and NGOs such as Greenpeace, International Animal Rescue.
Palm Oil and why it is so bad
Palm oil is bad. This cheap edible oil is killing a part of the planet that was once a diverse ecosystem brimming with life. Mankind is treating the Bornean rainforest as a smoker does their lungs.
At the coalface of a new palm oil plantation the trees are ripped up by mechanical digger and burned. A thriving ecosystem that helps regulate the planet is turned into a barren mono-culture of palm oil trees drenched in noxious chemicals to prevent nature fighting back.
Local people and the wildlife are adversely affected and the landscape is changed forever, just because people in the West want cheap food and washing powder.
British based nature documentary photographer traveled to Borneo to record the hideous side of cheap bread, soap, cakes, biscuits cosmetics and other affordable luxury products.
Product photography
Product photography is just as much about telling a story as documentary photography. Using studios, locations and models, GPhotograpjer Gavin Parsons will turn your product into a talking point.
Commercial Photography
Dorset based professional commercial photography including: Product photography, business headshots, conference photography, lifestyle photography, advertising photography and visual story telling.
Headshots
Your headshot is almost important as your handshake because it is ususally your customer's first point of contact with you. A first impression is important in business and quality headshot photography is crucial. I offer a range of packages from individuals to large companies.
Company image library
Would your company benefit from an image library of its own? How do you find a photographer who can create a whole image library? Well you have found one. With my vast photography experience I can capture pictures of people, places, industry, locations, action, still life. In the past I created image libraries for the Port of London Authority and the UK Home Office. If you think you need an image library.
Long term assignments
Photographic shoots longer than a day or two are long term assignments. These assignments can last a week, two weeks, a month or even longer. I am used to being away shooting different projects for extended periods. I was for several years a chosen assignment photographer for Greenpeace and am highly experienced in creating the right images for your needs. Below are a selection of images I captured for Greenpeace.
Animal photography
Do you wish your furry or feathered friends could be photographed like family. Pet photography is not all cheesy. I do not take snap shots of animals, I create art works using photography. I bring the studio to your home/stable and photograph your animals in a calm environemt. Pets photographed include: Cats, dogs, horses, birds (parrots, parakeets, birds of prey etc), cows, rare breeds, zoo animals. I will not work with captive cetacea or anything I do not believe lives well in captivity.
Video portfolio
YouTube photography tutorials and reviews, documentary videos and the home of The Cooking Photographer
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Artist Statement
I am Gavin Parsons, a photographer, videographer and writer/editor, collectively known as a creative content producer.
About Gavin Parsons
My story started when the 11 year old me crawled out of a swamp (where I was trying to catch a frog no doubt) and picked up a camera. Now, many years later, I have a trail of exciting memories, a few awards and a lot of publications bearing my work.
I love photography and video and I admire other people who love it too. I enjoy using digital as much as I love film, but equipment does not make a photographer, it is what is behind the eye that counts.
Sometimes my life is scary, other times it feels like I'm looking into the soul of the planet. And in the pursuit of art, I have hung out of helicopters; been centimetres from the mouth of a six metre long tiger shark and had to take refuge in a police van when it rained bricks during a police operation.
This website shows off just some of my work and if you like my style and want to work with me then give me a call or drop me an email. I can't always answer my phone, but always return messages, but thinking about it, it's probably best to email.
Social stuff
Photography
Today, visual communication is key to a brand's success. The world is dominated by Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. You could rely on poorly taken snaps and phone footage to try and engage your audience, but wouldn't it be better to talk to a professional visual creator. Telling your story is key to audiance engagement and I can produce high quality, stories
I have over 25 years professional photographic experience. I started photography during the days of film, so you are dealing with an image maker who knows his way around the industry and a camera. I have diversified into a lot of photographic fields during my career as I love to create. Below are some of my disciplines:.
- Animals
- Wildlife
- Underwater
- Formal and lifestyle portraits
- Documentary style videos
- Panoramas
- Landscapes/cityscapes/seascapes
- Fine Art
- Reportage
Videography
Videography is not as scary as many think, it doesn't have to have the budget of an Attenborough documentary series either. Cost-effective, creative videography is available to you for YouTube, instagram and Facebook stories. Does your business have interesting customers? Why not use those life stories to promote your brand? It could be people you sponsor or customers who just use your products and services. Creating thought-provoking mini-documentaries about them will tell the story of your brand better than any advertising campaign you could mount
To make create video you need great footage and perfect audio, these two fundamentals of video-making cannot be ignored and one cannot be without the other. Great footage is usless without great audio and vice versa.
Copywriting/ Art editing
The written word is still king of SEO and attracting an audience to the digital workspace you inhabit. Poor grammar, misspellings and over writtem copy turns people away. You need exacting journalism, considered and concise to get your point across efficiently and creatively. Capture the viewer with stunning visuals and keep them with creative, captivative copy.
In addition, I am also an experienced art editor and graphic designer creating infographics, print materials and Powerpoint presentations. Life as an art editor runs hand in hand with visual creating and
I have created copy for the following:
- Websites.
- Digital and print marketing
- Social platforms
- Internal communications
- Conferences
- International magazines
- Newspapers
Favourite coffee
Favourite film
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Camera make
Please get in touch
email: photo@gavinparsons.co.uk or call: +44 (0) 7720 706143
I am not always able to answer the phone, but please leave a message and I will always get back to you. I answer all emails too.