JPhotosessions

14/10/2026

Last week I photographed ING Nederland’s inspirational EmpowerHER event, capturing speakers, audience and atmosphere.

An event like this takes weeks of preparation, a budget and a lot of people whose calendars were already quite full. Getting more value from that investment means thinking beyond the people in the room.

That’s where my photography comes in.

Colleagues who couldn’t attend can get an impression of what they missed. The teams behind the work are visible. Communications gets images for internal updates and external posts. Recruitment has something real to show when talking about the people and culture behind the brand.

After 25 years in corporate marketing, I’m always thinking about where the pictures will end up while I’m taking them. The wide shot that explains the scale. The interaction that shows collaboration. The expression that captures your attention.

And yes, the speakers with their eyes open. We photographers have ambitious targets.😉📸

13/10/2026

You can lead an entire team and still wonder what to do with your hands in a photo.

Back at ING Nederland’s Cedar office today, photographing several business leaders. 📸

My job starts before I press the shutter. A conversation, a laugh, a little guidance. That’s usually when the shoulders drop and the person shows up.

The hands? We’ll sort those out too.

02/10/2026

01/10/2026

Somewhere on LinkedIn, a man is still using a photo from three jobs and two hairstyles ago.

Today at ING Nederland, I’m doing my bit. 📸

Back for another day of business portraits, helping people update the little face that attends every Teams meeting, introduces them to new colleagues and occasionally gets enlarged by someone wondering, “Have we met?”

It’s a surprisingly hardworking little photo. Might as well give it a fighting chance.

I spent 25 years in corporate marketing. I’ve seen the effort that goes into getting a company’s visual identity right. Fonts, colours, templates. Entire meetings about the position of a logo.

Meanwhile, John’s profile picture is still him at a barbecue.

I like giving the people behind the business some of that attention. Finding good light, helping them settle in, catching an expression that feels like them. All within a few minutes between whatever else their working day throws at them.

And yes, you can look approachable without laughing at an imaginary joke just above my left shoulder.

Want me to come to your office next? Drop me a message.

John can keep the barbecue photo for WhatsApp.

JPhotosessions

29/09/2026

You manage budgets. Lead teams. Handle difficult stakeholders.

Then someone points a camera at you and suddenly you’ve never owned hands before.

Do they go in pockets? Crossed? Why are there two of them?

Back at ING Nederland’s Cedar office today, shooting business portraits and helping perfectly capable people remember how to stand. Myself included.

I have a soft spot for this part of the job. Someone arrives slightly suspicious of the whole operation. We chat, try a few shots, make a small adjustment. I show them the screen.

“Oh. Actually, I like that.”

That’s the bit I’m after.

Having spent 25 years in corporate marketing, I know how useful a good portrait is. But knowing it’s useful doesn’t magically make being photographed comfortable. That part is my job.

A little direction, decent light, a laugh, and you can get back to the meeting you were secretly hoping this would take you out of.

If your team’s profile photos still include a cropped wedding guest and someone who left in 2022, we should talk. 📸

JPhotosessions

26/09/2026

Some people burst your bubble. I photograph it. 🫧📸

Portrait photography should leave room for a little mischief. A raised eyebrow. A spontaneous laugh. That moment when you forget there’s a camera pointed at you.

That’s when your personality gets a look in.

At JPhotosessions, I help people feel comfortable enough to show it. With a bit of guidance, good light and absolutely no requirement to arrive knowing what to do with your hands.

Whether you need a fresh LinkedIn portrait, personal branding images or photos of your whole team, we’ll find a look that feels like you.

Bubblegum optional. Personality very much encouraged. 😉

Ready for a portrait you actually want to show people? Send me a message. Let’s put a face to your story.

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24/09/2026

The best compliment isn’t: “Great photo.”

It’s: “You immediately put me at ease.”

Back at ING Nederland’s Cedar office today for another business portrait session, photographing another 60 colleagues.

After the previous session, some lovely reviews started coming in. Erwin wrote:

“Great experience and excellent result. JP is a warm and professional photographer who immediately puts you at ease and provides valuable advice to achieve the best possible outcome. Highly recommended!”

That means a lot, because a good business portrait starts long before I press the shutter.

Many people arrive convinced they are not photogenic. Or they bring their official “camera face,” usually involving a stiff smile and the sudden disappearance of their shoulders.

My first job is to make them forget there is a camera in front of them.

A little guidance. A relaxed conversation. A few small adjustments.

And then, somewhere within those five minutes, the real person appears.

That is the moment I’m looking for.

Back again today. Camera ready, 60 people to meet, and hopefully 60 people leaving thinking:

“That was actually much easier than I expected.”

Thanks for the wonderful review, Erwin Hendriks. 📸

22/09/2026

The background is empty now. It won’t be for long.

Today, 60 people will be in front of my camera at the ING Nederland Cedar office.

Beautiful location.
Same five-minute window.
But never the same portrait.

Because consistency does not mean making everyone look identical. It means creating a recognisable visual style while leaving room for the person in front of the lens.

Some arrive confident. Some tell me they hate having their picture taken. Most bring the expression they think belongs in a business portrait.

My job is to help them leave that expression behind.

A small adjustment. A bit of conversation. The right moment.

Click.

That is where an employee photograph becomes a portrait, and where a collection of 60 individual faces begins to tell one coherent company story.

Camera ready. Photographer ready.

Now for the people. 📸❤️🦁

17/09/2026

Doing my thing! 📸

Back at ING Cedar in Amsterdam today.🦁

This time, I’m creating an engaging photo impression of the Senior Leadership meetup.

For me, photographing a leadership event like this isn’t simply about documenting the people in the room.

It’s about capturing the conversations. The connections. The energy. The moments between people that show what leadership and company culture actually look like.

From an Internal Communications and Employee Engagement perspective, those images help bring an event to a much wider audience. They give employees who weren’t there a sense of the atmosphere at the event.

Externally, authentic photography can also tell a much stronger story about an organisation than another polished stock image ever could. It gives PR, employer branding and corporate communications teams a library of real moments, with real people, in a real working environment.

And that’s also why I enjoy working with ING Nederland

Having spent 25 years in corporate marketing myself, I understand that the job isn’t just to come back with beautiful photographs. It’s to understand what Communications needs those photographs to do.

So today, I’m not just photographing a Senior Leadership meetup.

I’m creating visual stories that can keep working long after the meeting is over.

Good to be back at Cedar. 🙌

13/09/2026

Your employees are already representing your company on LinkedIn.

The question is: does it look like it?

I’ve photographed more than 2,000 business portraits in the first six months of this year, and one thing has become very clear to me:

Most companies don’t really have a headshot problem.

They have a consistency problem.

One employee has a professional portrait.
Another has a holiday photo.
Someone else is cropped out of a wedding picture.
And the new colleague is still using the photo from their previous employer.

Yet these are the faces customers, candidates and future employees see every day on LinkedIn, Teams, company websites and speaker profiles.

That’s why I think corporate portrait photography should be treated less like:

“Let’s organize a photographer for a day.”

And more like:

“How do we make 50, 100 or 500 individual people visibly part of the same company?”

For larger teams, I take care of the entire process.

Registration before the shoot.
Short 5-minute portrait sessions on location.
A consistent photographic style.
Natural expressions instead of stiff corporate headshots.
Individual, private galleries afterwards.

So HR, Marketing or Communications doesn’t have to become a photography project manager for a week.

They get consistency.

Employees get a portrait they actually want to use.

And the company suddenly has hundreds of people representing the brand professionally every day.

That’s a pretty powerful piece of employer branding hiding in plain sight.

📸 If your employee portraits on LinkedIn currently look like 100 people working for 100 different companies, we should probably talk.