Editorial reportage, visual ethnography, and cinematic motion for organisations that refuse to be represented by stock photos and synthesised imagery.
A sub-brand of TAKT.
B2B engagements. Monday to Friday.
Manifesto № 01
Every annual report and careers page is starting to look the same. Glossy, generic, generated. Plastic smiles in plastic offices. Faces stitched together from a prompt.
These images are cheap. They are also a quiet betrayal of the people who actually do the work, replaced on the website that represents them by a synthetic stranger who has never held the job.
TAKT Stories exists for organisations that reject this shortcut. We document the unposed, mid-conversation, mid-Tuesday truth of a working culture. Real people. Real rooms. Real light.
Not curated. Not synthesised. Not flattering by default. Accurate by design.
Why now
Remote and hybrid working have thinned the spontaneous rituals that used to make a culture visible. The corridor conversation, the post-standup huddle, the offsite that actually mattered. The work of building community and in-person relationships is now deliberate, scheduled, and expensive to engineer.
When your team does come together, the documentation should match the weight of the occasion. Stock libraries cannot match it. AI imagery cannot match it. Photography that understands what the gathering is for, can.
Why TAKT?
Two decades inside high-stakes central government programmes and complex enterprise transformations taught us how organisations actually function. The politics, the rituals, the unspoken rules. We bring that fluency to a camera before we bring a camera to a room.
Before the shutter clicks
We map the service ecosystem, the org chart, the day-in-the-life rhythms, and the narrative your organisation is trying to live up to. Photography becomes the deliverable of a strategy engagement, not the start of one.
User psychology, not just composition
A traditional photographer manages light and pose. A UCD leader manages trust, getting the room to forget the camera so the real culture surfaces. That is how you photograph a workplace honestly.
A complete narrative artefact
Each engagement delivers more than files. Research notes, editing rationale, and a written narrative that comms, brand, and people teams can defend internally and use externally.
B2B · Monday–Friday only
Service 01
Embedded multi-day documentation for internal alignment, design research, and B-Corp transparency reporting. We follow your teams through their actual work: standups, silences, corridor conversations. We return with a visual record your leadership team can act on.
Service 02
High-end Monday-to-Friday corporate reportage and cinematic short-form video, built for the platforms a modern organisation actually publishes on: careers sites, LinkedIn, investor decks, annual reports. Editorial first, marketing second.
Provenance
Before TAKT, a first decade in creative industries: games, web, and app design for studios, working with clients including Disney, BBC, Sony, Channel 4, and the Science Museum. An eye trained in entertainment before it was trained in enterprise.
Before TAKT Stories, the work that taught us how to see in public: street and community portraiture under mrk.shoots, and long-form local documentary under Lichfield Life.
Markets, high streets, faith spaces, kitchen tables. Raw rooms, unposed faces, available light. We learnt to capture a place as it is, not as it wishes to appear. That is the instinct we now bring into boardrooms and operations floors.
Creative Industries · First decade
Games, web, and app design for studios. Clients included Disney, BBC, Sony, Channel 4, and the Science Museum.
Street and community portraiture. Unposed, mid-moment, in available light.
Long-form local documentary. Markets, makers, neighbourhoods.
TAKT
Service design and UCD leadership across complex central government programmes and high-stakes enterprise transformations.
Earlier work · mrk.shoots / Lichfield Life
Begin
A focused fifteen minutes. Tell us about the culture you want to evidence, the report you need to fill, or the reportage you have been putting off commissioning. We will tell you whether we are the right team, and what an honest engagement actually looks like.
Engagements run Monday to Friday only. We protect weekends for the family and community work that keeps the lens honest.