I specialise in event photography and have expanded both my product and travel photography portfolio; I have covered sporting events for over a decade for various agencies and clubs, and I am experienced in archive digitisation and coordinating production guidelines.

Joshua Smith

I specialise in event photography and have expanded both my product and travel photography portfolio; I have covered sporting events for over a decade for various agencies and clubs, and I am experienced in archive digitisation and coordinating production guidelines.

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I specialise in event photography and have expanded both my product and travel photography portfolio; I have covered sporting events for over a decade for various agencies and clubs, and I am experienced in archive digitisation and coordinating production guidelines.

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Work Experience

Product Photographer & Retoucher at Watchfinder & Co
June 1, 2025 - November 9, 2025
Photograph watches and boxes onsite daily, maintaining an accurate production record; coordinate a company-wide guideline for product images (sizing, aspect ratios and presets); retouch all images to meet the guidelines; upload edited images to the company website for customer viewing; routinely back up all work to a shared server; maintain photographic and IT equipment to ensure a smooth transition between photographers in the team.
Contributor at Pinnacle Photo Agency
June 1, 2024 - November 9, 2025
Cover sporting events for Pinnacle Photo Agency and UK SportsPics, contributing images for social media platforms and print; completed over 50 events since June 2024, including fixtures for Crystal Palace FC, Torquay United FC and Yeovil Town FC.
Contributor at UK SportsPics Ltd
May 1, 2022 - November 9, 2025
Covered over 130 sporting events across multiple sports, mainly football and tennis, contributing high-quality images for press distribution; digitising the agency’s physical archives dating back to the 1940s.
Contributor at Sportpix and Edinburgh Elite Media
April 1, 2022 - April 1, 2022
Covered over 140 sporting events to provide high-quality images to the agency for press distribution.
Consultant at Arsenal Football Club PLC
May 1, 2018 - May 1, 2018
Assigned to Arsenal FC PLC through a 12-month consultancy to provide high-quality images, covering both the Arsenal Women’s Football team and the Arsenal in the Community events. Over the course of the year I photographed over 40 games and 10 events.
HR Operations Coordinator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP
December 31, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Leading on the maintenance/auditing of PeopleSoft (HRIS) for London, Paris, Brussels, Riyadh and Hong Kong offices; providing support and guidance to employees in relation to data storage, data protection and training; ensuring any technical issues within the systems are promptly raised, engaging full investigations, and testing as required; supporting the wider HR Operations team in testing bug issues/fixes, system enhancements, and developments to PeopleSoft; coordinating the International offices on transfer and secondment processes, ensuring they remain in-line with US offices; running queries out of PeopleSoft to support requests for data; checking queries run by junior team members for accuracy and formatting prior to submission; identifying reporting needs within the Firm and working to provide ad-hoc requests from Directors/Managers as required.
HR & Administrative Coordinator at Morrison & Foerster LLP
June 30, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Leading on grievance and disciplinary issues and a range of employee relations matters; coordinating the monthly payroll process; processing joiner and leaver checklists to ensure timely action; coordinating the annual salary review processes; coordinating business services recruitment processes, from job descriptions to onboarding; processing administration for benefits schemes; working closely with immigration lawyers on visa applications and renewals; collaborating with the attorney recruiting team to source graduate candidates for Spring and Summer Vacation Schemes and coordinating trainee seat changes.
HR Assistant at Simpson Thacher & BartleW LLP
August 31, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Assisted with grievance and disciplinary issues and a range of employee relations matters; created and maintained records to track annual leave and sickness for all London employees; regularly created reports using HR and payroll data; worked through leaver checklists to ensure actions; created and updated policy documents such as Employee Handbooks; ensured HR records were up to date; assisted with annual salary reviews and bonuses; supported day-to-day HR tasks and wellbeing initiatives.
Professional and Administrative Resources Assistant at Proskauer Rose (UK) LLP
November 1, 2019 - November 1, 2019
Specialised in fee earner & support recruitment; acted as the first point of contact for new joiners and coordinated all in-house background checks; managed probationary reviews; led CSR involvement for the London office; collaborated with Partners across teams to develop a Graduate Recruitment structure (plans existed but the Firm ultimately did not proceed with a Trainee Programme).
HR Administrative Apprentice at Proskauer Rose (UK) LLP
June 1, 2017 - June 1, 2017
Supported the HR team with scheduling the yearly evaluation process for lawyers and business services staff; led recruitment for business services roles; assisted with joiner onboarding and salary reviews; coordinated inbound/outbound secondments; maintained immigration compliance database.

Education

GCSEs at London Nautical School
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education
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