Philip Hatfield Photography - Experience, Style and Service
We specialize in family portraiture, weddings, commercial and public relations photography and are a previous Fuji National Wedding and Portrait Award winner.
I was trained as a photographer at the North West Evening Mail, based at Barrow in Furness and gained the National Council for the Training of Journalists Certificate in Photography at age 19, one of the youngest in the country to do so at the time. As a press photographer I covered a multitude of events from Royal visits to WI coffee mornings and with this broad experience have learned to put my subjects at ease whilst being speedy and precise.
I photographed my first wedding in the late seventies and have since covered many hundreds of these events. My other specialities are family portraiture and photography for many local and national businesses.
Having worked freelance for many years I started my own full-time photography business in 1989. During this time I won several prizes from the Guild of Wedding Photographers and have won a merit award in the National Fuji film wedding and portrait awards. With 25 years in professional photography I feel I have accumulated a wealth of experience which many photographers and certainly part-timers do not have.
We opened our new fully digital Portrait Studio on Walney Island, part of the town of Barrow in 2010.
Philip Hatfield LMPA. LSWPP. NCTJ. cert. photog.