Rory Lewis: Portrait & Headshot Photographer

Hugh Bonneville Portrait Sitting

June 28, 2020 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, London, Portraiture, Los Angeles, Portraitist, Corporate Commission

Hugh Bonneville is best known for playing such archetypally English, buttoned-up characters as Lord Grantham in ***Downton Abbey, Ian Fletcher in W1A* and Mr Brown in *Paddington***.

Michael Harney Actor Portraits Los Angeles

June 22, 2020 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, New York, Portraiture, Selah, Corporate Commission

Michael John Harney is an American actor of film, television, and theater. He is best known for starring on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black as Corrections Officer Sam Healy. In 2019, he had a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind.

Johnson Beharry VC Portrait Sitting

June 13, 2020 in Victoria Cross, Portraiture, Works, Military Portrait, London, Featured Sitting, Charity, Corporate Commission, Top Moment, Top Clients

The Victoria Cross & George Cross Portrait Project has been an exceptionally challenging, yet rewarding. Individuals who have been awarded the Victoria Cross have been selected because they are worthy of Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand’s highest military award for their bravery and conduct in the field.

Dame Judi Dench Portrait Sitting

May 14, 2020 in Actors Headshots, Portraiture, Selah, Celebrity, Featured Sitting, Corporate Commission, Northerners, Top Moment

Dame Judi sat for a portrait to be featured in my Selah Exhibition at her home last month. The sitting gave me the chance to experiment with a series of interesting expressions and characters. The session lasting just over a short period of 15 minutes, I was able to capture a portfolio of truly spontaneous and unique portraits.

Steven Berkoff (The Times Portrait Sitting)

March 02, 2020 in London, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Published, Works, Corporate Commission, Top Moment, Top Clients

Steven Berkoff is an English actor who has also enjoyed prominent success as an author, playwright and theatre director. Often cast as the ‘big bad’ in his films, he has appeared in the likes of Rambo: First Blood Part II, Octopussy and as Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance. Recently, you may have spotted him alongside Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in David Fincher’s version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

William Shatner Wrath of Khan (Promotional Poster Campaign Photoshoot)

February 23, 2020 in Celebrity, Portraiture, Star Trek, Works, Corporate Commission, Top Clients, Top Moment

William Shatner is best known for his role as Captain James T Kirk on the Starship Enterprise. I’ve had the honour and pleasure of having him in front of my lens on three occasions.

Tobias Menzies (The Scotsman)

February 23, 2020 in Published, Portraiture, Actors Headshots, Los Angeles, London, New York, Corporate Commission, Top Moment, Top Clients

Thank you to The Scotsman, publishing my portrait of Tobias Menzies in a recent article on his Portrayal of H.R.H Prince Philip in the award winning series The Crown.

Ciarán Hinds Portrait Sitting London

December 29, 2019 in Actors Headshots, Author Portraits, Celebrity, Featured Sitting, London, Selah, Corporate Commission

Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor, featuring in films such as Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frozen, Silence, and Justice League, in which he portrayed the main antagonist Steppenwolf.

James Purefoy Portrait Sitting

December 22, 2019 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, London, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Selah, Corporate Commission, Top Moment

James Purefoy retuned to the London studio for another portrait sitting to be included in my latest project entitled Selah.

Gavin Williamson CBE MP, Portrait Sitting

December 10, 2019 in Portraiture, Political Portraits, London, Featured Sitting, Corporate Commission

Gavin Williamson CBE MP is a British Conservative politician. He was elected Conservative MP for South Staffordshire in May 2010. Since 2019 serving as Secretary of State for Education.

James Purefoy Sky One (A Discovery of Witches)

December 06, 2019 in Actors Headshots, Corporate Commission, London, Los Angeles, Portraiture, Advertising, Case Study

A Discovery of Witches is a British television programme based on the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, named after the first book in the trilogy.

Cardiff Business School. The power of purpose.

November 10, 2019 in Corporate Commission, Charity, Portraiture, Advertising, Works, Case Study, Top Clients, Top Moment

Cardiff Business school commissioned a recruitment campaign to promote their views as the world’s first Public Value Business School - valuing more than just economic success, they were on a mission to bring humanity, sustainability, generosity and innovation to the business sector.

Harriet Tyce Author Portraits

November 10, 2019 in London, Portraiture, Corporate Commission

Harriet Tyce is the author of Blood Orange, a psychological thriller. Blood Orange has been optioned by World Productions to be made into a drama series. With all the press and PR around Harriet’s novel, she needed a new body of Author Portraits.

1st Battalion Welsh Guards Portrait Sittings

October 06, 2019 in Military Portrait, London, New York, Royal Regiments, Soldiery, Regimental Sittings, Portraiture, Corporate Commission

Delighted to receive a commission from 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in Windsor to capture portraits of C/O & Senior Warrant Officers. The Welsh Guards was formed in 1915 by order of King George V. Over the course of their 100+ year history, they have distinguished themselves both on and off the battlefield, and have taken part in almost every British Army campaign since World War I. The Welsh Guards are Wales’s Senior Infantry Regiment with a formidable reputation forged throughout the last century.

Dr Austin McCormick Corporate Headshots London

August 05, 2019 in Corporate Commission, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture

Dr Austin McCormick Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon arranged a corporate headshot session at the Liverpool studio. Creating a new website and online image, these shots where very important as the first visual contact any patients have with Dr McCormick.

Maurice Benard (Harper Collins) Book Cover Portraits

May 13, 2019 in Author Portraits, Actors Headshots, Celebrity, London, Liverpool, Leeds, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Advertising, Corporate Commission

Maurice Benard is an Emmy Award winning actor best known for his role as Sonny Corinthos on the hit show General Hospital. During my last visit to Los Angeles, I was commissioned by Harper Collins to capture a Portrait of Maurice for the books cover.

Karl Pilkington Portrait Sitting Curtis Brown Management

May 05, 2019 in Portraiture, Featured Sitting, Celebrity, Corporate Commission, London, Northerners, Advertising

Recently I was commissioned by Curtis Brown Management to capture a series of promotional portraiture for Karl Pilkington. An English travel show presenter, actor, author and all-round funny man who shot to fame alongside Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant with the radio programme, the Ricky Gervais Show.

Tony Blair Portrait Sitting

April 10, 2019 in Prime Minister, Featured Sitting, Corporate Commission, London, Political Portraits, Northerners, Charity, Top Moment, Case Study

Recently I invited former Prime Minister Tony Blair to sit for a portrait in London. Mr Blair served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. The third Prime Minister of my career, it was an exciting prospect to capture his Portrait.

David Cameron Prime Minister Portrait Sitting

December 23, 2018 in Portraiture, Featured Sitting, London, Prime Minister, Portraitist, Political Portraits, Corporate Commission, Charity, Top Moment

One of the most challenging sittings of my career, I was recently commissioned to capture a portrait of former Prime Minister David Cameron. Serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Brexit has been a challenging time in British Politics, resulting in David Cameron’s resignation.

Chief Constable Paul Crowther, OBE Portrait Sitting

September 21, 2018 in Portraiture, Featured Sitting, London, Corporate Commission

Paul Crowther, OBE is a police officer of the United Kingdom. Since March 2014, he has been Chief Constable of the British Transport Police (BTP). I’m no stranger to photographing high profile public officials. I’m a professional portrait photographer, I will forever be a historian in my heart.