Corporate Photography + Video
Executive portraits, team and workplace photography, commercial imagery and brand films for marketing teams. Henry David plans every project and photographs and films it himself.
Based in St. Louis. Working nationwide.
Watch the Belden brand film“Just amazing… Absolutely worth the investment.”
Wendy Menghini, Managing Director, EY
Selected clients
Capabilities
Portraits, image libraries and film from one photographer, so they look like they belong to the same company.
Workplace, team, facility, recruiting and employer-brand photography, up to a complete image library your marketing and communications teams can keep drawing from.
Corporate photographyCampaign, industrial, environmental and product photography made for a specific commercial use, whether that is a proposal, a trade show or an advertisement.
Commercial photographyPortraits of the people who speak for the company, made for announcements, press, proposals, board materials and the leadership page.
Executive portraitsBrand films, executive interviews, recruiting and testimonial videos, facility stories and b-roll, planned to sit beside the still photography.
Video productionOne production plan for stills and motion in the same access window, so a busy floor or a leadership team is disrupted once. At Belden that meant a photography library and a brand film from one production day.
See the Belden photo and video productionSelected work
Integrated photography + video
Belden's St. Louis office is a 28,000 sq ft floor with a 1,200 sq ft experience center lit almost entirely by screens. Henry photographed the architecture, the experience center and the people using it, and shot a brand film on the same floor, in one production day. The visit produced 129 delivered frames alongside the film.
Read the Belden case study
Two companies, two visual identities
IWR North America had grown across multiple offices, each hiring its own local photographer, and marketing director Jessie Haupt wanted the company to move from stiff corporate headshots to an editorial studio look. For parent company MHS Legacy she was open to keeping the same look, but asked whether the parent had a stronger case for looking different. It did, and MHS Legacy was photographed as environmental portraits in natural light at Washington University's Brookings Hall.
Read the IWR North America and MHS Legacy case study
200+ people across multiple sites over four-plus years
A previous round of washed-out headshots had left the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine feeling misrepresented. Henry built a department-wide program for 200+ faculty, fellows, residents and staff across multiple clinical and research sites, with sessions scheduled around the operating rooms. The relationship has continued for more than four years and has grown into research video for the Zipfel Lab.
Read the Washington University Neurosurgery case study
Meet Henry
I grew up in the arts and spent years studying classical oil painting. Before starting a painting I would go through magazines, artwork and photographs looking for the one image worth dozens of hours of work. I did not know it then, but that search was training my eye to notice why one picture stops me and another does not.
Photography became the medium later, and the habit stayed. I bring the same judgment to companies: what already works, what is weakening the impression and what the business could look like at its best.
The same attention goes into photographing people. A natural expression cannot be produced on command, so I pay attention to the person in front of me, give them something real to react to and photograph the moment it appears.
You do not have to know how to look natural. That is my job.
Working with large organizations
Good pictures only help if the project also works for the people who schedule it, buy it, approve it and use it afterward.
Send a few lines about the project, where the finished work will be used and the timing you are working toward.
How projects work
We start with what the work is for and where it will be used, then map the people, places, schedule and brand standards involved.
Henry sets the shot list and plans the schedule and equipment around your people and spaces, so everyone knows the plan before the day.
Henry directs the day and coaches each person in front of the camera as he goes.
Retouching, editing and file preparation follow where the work will be used and the usage the engagement covers.
Turnaround and delivery expectations are agreed before production based on scope.
Corporate headshot programs
Company-wide headshot programs run from a small leadership team to a whole company across several offices. Every location is photographed to the same standard, so the directory, the website and the proposal decks all match.
Industries
Customers and recruits judge an operation they will never walk through by the pictures of it. The photography has to make plants, equipment and processes legible to people outside the building.
A directory photo is often a patient's first impression of a physician, and departments recruit faculty on reputation. The schedule has to work around clinics and operating rooms.
Clients are deciding whether to trust people they have not met yet. Advisors, partners and teams need to look consistent from office to office and credible on the first visit to the website.
Finished projects, field teams and job sites are the evidence in a proposal, and much of it has to be photographed while the work is still under way.
Several offices, brands and hiring needs pull a company's image in different directions. The photography has to hold them together.
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Client testimonials
“You nailed it once again! Thank you for your incredible professionalism and outstanding experience for everyone. You continue to deliver the most amazing photos for us!”
“Henry took the time to understand our business and the image we wanted to convey, offering expert guidance on poses and lighting. The final photos were stunning. Crisp, professional, and exactly what I needed to represent my business.”
“Henry responded quickly, was accommodating with the schedule, extremely easy and pleasant to work with, and he produced very polished pictures that demonstrated his eye and skill for tasteful editing.”
St. Louis, Missouri
Henry David Photography has a studio in St. Louis, by appointment, but most local projects happen on location at client offices and facilities across the metro, from Clayton and Chesterfield to St. Charles. For headshots and team sessions in the metro, see St. Louis headshot photography.
Beyond the metro, Henry has worked in 47 U.S. states. For programs that span several cities, see photography and headshot programs nationwide.
Photography and video for companies, their people and their products.
Common Questions
Mostly established organizations with a marketing, communications or HR team behind the project: healthcare systems and academic medicine, industrial, manufacturing, construction and engineering firms, financial and professional-services firms, law firms, universities and corporate leadership teams. Henry David Photography has worked with 120+ organizations, including Belden, Washington University Medicine, Boeing, KPMG, Merrill Lynch, EY, FedEx and IWR North America.
Yes. Henry plans every project and photographs and films it himself. The person who sets the visual standard is the one behind the camera.
Yes. Henry David Photography is based in St. Louis and has worked in 47 U.S. states. Past international work includes Japan, South Korea, Prague and Edinburgh.
Yes. Stills and motion can be planned as one production and made in the same access window, so a facility or a leadership team is only disrupted once. The Belden case study shows how that works on a corporate floor.
Yes. W-9s, certificates of insurance, purchase orders, ACH payment and vendor onboarding are a normal part of Henry David Photography's corporate projects. The How We Work page lists the documents procurement teams receive.
Clients receive a written license scoped to the business use the work was commissioned for. Copyright stays with Henry David Photography. The exact rights are written into each proposal, and the licensing and usage page explains the details.
Start a project
New leadership, new hires, a campaign, a facility or a website launch. Send a few lines about the project, where the work will be used and your timing, and I'll tell you how I would approach it.
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