Creative Studio for Product Led Brands. GK Concepts, provides commercial product imagery and standalone post-production services for product led brands demanding specialist precision.

GK Concepts

Creative Studio for Product Led Brands. GK Concepts, provides commercial product imagery and standalone post-production services for product led brands demanding specialist precision.

Available to hire

Creative Studio for Product Led Brands.

GK Concepts, provides commercial product imagery and standalone post-production services for product led brands demanding specialist precision.

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Studio Lead at GK Concepts
April 1, 2024 - Present
Created a successful freelance studio specialising in product photography and post-production. Responsible for networking and client relations. Within a year retouched imagery for over 8 different clients with a wide range of work. Handled every aspect of a project from finding clients to delivering assets. Sourced and organised a team of retouchers to achieve quick turn-around. Directed retouching & photography workflows to ensure consistency and efficiency. Carried out complex retouching on specialist jobs that required direct client to retouch communication.
Product Photographer at GK Concepts
January 1, 2020 - Present
Helping to support growing online businesses by taking high quality photographs of their products. Trained by a professional product photographer to ecommerce standard (studio work, retouching).
Retoucher at Superdry HQ
April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2026
Delivery of model/still life campaign imagery to Superdry standards within tight deadlines. Following briefs from various creative directors with individual styles. Maintaining consistency between images and applying final grades signed off by creative retoucher. Creating actions and workflows for ecom imagery to be outsourced. Retouched imagery to be displayed as POS in stores. Worked with head of brand creative and photographers to finalise ecom style for over 3000 images. Covered for Lead Producer - Red Creative for about two months; assisted with weekly/daily workflow and liaised with clients to deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
Midweight Retoucher at Red Creative
September 1, 2021 - April 1, 2024
Perfected hundreds of fashion and beauty campaign images using high end retouching techniques. Refined thousands of E-com images including model, flat-lay, mannequin, jewellery, accessories, etc. Over 3000 hours experience using Wacom tablet. Taught and assisted junior retouching staff. Flexible and capable in a fast-paced environment. Extremely used to tight deadlines. Outsourcing work to pathing company to save time on E-com jobs. Organised images on server maintaining specific file structure. Following retouch briefs reliably and asking design team questions where needed. Colour matching products by eye. QC and provide actionable feedback to myself and others.
Retoucher and Photographer at Sell Through Digital
June 1, 2021 - July 1, 2021
Using Adobe Lightroom to organise, process and edit large quantities of E-com for commercial use. Using Adobe Photoshop to retouch images and create graphics for advertising and commercial use. Being responsible for expensive camera equipment while creating high quality images for use in advertising. Working as a part of the design team and developing professional relationships. Using Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to create short adverts for Facebook and Instagram. Responsible for organising stock for shoot days.
Focal Agent Property Photography at Focal Agent Property Photography
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Experience photographing properties to an industry standard. Successful completion of QC brief.

Education

GCSE - Photography at NWHS
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
A Levels – Photography (B) at WORCESTER SIXTH FORM COLLEGE
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
GCSEs at NUNNERY WOOD HIGH SCHOOL
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
A Levels – Photography (B) at WSFC
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019

Qualifications

British Photography Awards
April 13, 2026 - April 13, 2026
Retouched Imagery that went on to win the product photography catagory for the British Photography Awards

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Retail, Consumer Goods, Professional Services