Portraits

Dorset based Gavin Parsons is the best location headshot photographer in west Dorset. He creates headshots, studio portraits, location portraits and lifestyle imagery for businesses, government departments, NGOs and individuals. He travels widely and can be booked for anywhere in the UK or the world.

Product photography

Dorset photographer Gavin Parsons' product photography starts conversations. Whether it is a product on a plain background or a stylised image telling the story of a brand, his images engage your audience and attract new customers.

Location photography

Do not buy boring stock imagery. Instead, liven up your office or home with a local Landscape photograph, a bespoke cityscape, a dramatic seascape, a personal landmark, or your building's interior/exterior. Dorset based photographer Gavin Parsons creates stunning unique panorama photographs to suit your brand, improve your marketing or simply to make your place of business stand out.

Wine Industry photography

The English wine industry is growing. England's sparkling and still wines are superb and are in need of a photographer who understands viticulture and the wine making process. Dorset professional commercial photographer Gavin Parsons can help with still and moving images to assist your marketing. This set was shot for Langham Wine Estate.

Animal photography

Having been specially and highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Nature's Best Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Dorset professional photographer Gavin Parsons is first and foremost an animal photographer. He connects with animals like no other person you will meet. Having spent years as a professional wildlife photographer and a commercial portrait photographer, he combines his skills to create amazing pet photography. This portfolio of the Misfits was shot for free at a cat sanctuary in Sussex to highlight its work. Whether you own a cat, dog, horse, cow, camel or goldfish Gavin will create an awesome photograph for you.

99 year old camera

Made in 1918, The Kodak No.3A Junior is a beautiful camera and is central to a project to photograph people born the same year as well as a fashion project.

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.

Ancient trees

How long can trees live for? The answer is hundreds of years if mankind lets them. So professional nature photographer Gavin Parsons went to document the UK's oldest trees. This ongoing project records designated ancient trees in a fine art photography style.

Last Dancing Bear

The happy sounds of bells and comical shuffling of India's dancing bears kept tourists entertained for centuries, but it was a barbaric practice disguised as fun. The sloth bears, made famous by Kipling's Baloo, had their teeth knocked out and a control rope punched through their snouts. The bears reared up and stuffled to alliviate the intense pain. But add some jingly music and drums and the bears looked like they were dancing.

India banned the practice in 1972, but had little appetite to end it, so the bears continued to suffer until several organisations formed a coalition to save the bears. British based International Animal Rescue was one partner which helped bring an end to the unbelievable suffering in just seven years. British animal reportage photographer Gavin Parsons traveled to India with IAR to document the end of this cruelty.

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.

Slow lorises are cute right? Err No!

Cuteness is the reason for the inhumane torture forced on the slow loris. The diminutive noctural mammals have big eyes, small hands and a docile nature that has made them a target for the illegal pet trade. Slow lorises are not defenceless though and a poison tooth means traders use nail clippers to smash their teeth before selling them on street corners. Once sold, the slow loris, has a tortured, stressful short life. There is only one sanctuary in the world which is rehabilitating and releasing the rescued slow loris. It is a hard task, but they are succeeding.

Orangutan Rescue

Jo-Jo was a young man chained by the wrist and living on a pallet over an open sewer. He was fed scraps and consequently was skin and bones. If he were human the world would have gone mad. Jo-jo though is an orangutan, one of mankind's closest biological neighbours and was forgotten.

He was found by a team from International Animal Rescue and started the British-based charity on a journey that has culminated in their own Orangutan rescue centre in West Kalimantan, Borneo.

Nature reportage photographer was commissioned by IAR to document Jo-Jo's journey and the opening of the rescue centre.

World War One Battlefields

Personal Project

The World War One battlefields are a unique place to photograph. The fields of western France and Belgium are littered with monuments to young men who gave their lives 100 years ago. Dorset Based professional commercial photographer Gavin Parsons wanted to show their sacrifice is still remembered and their place in the landscape is not forgotten.

Underwater photography

Personal and commercial Project

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.

Fishermen

Personal and commercial Project

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.

Commercial Photography

Dorset based professional commercial photography including: Product photography, business headshots, conference photography, lifestyle photography, advertising photography and visual story telling.

Underwater Photography

Photography and videography below the water's surface is a challenging pursuit. I have been putting my camera beneath the waves for over 20 years. So if you want a cameraman who is calm, collected and knows instinctivly how to create emotion grabbing images underwater, I'm the one to call.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.