1. The best photos in the business
The School Room Studio Ltd will give you the best school portraits in the business. School Photography is about documenting change, capturing a child blossoming over time and creating lasting, timeless memories. This is precisely what we are about. Learn more.
2. We will beat your current commission
Whatever commission your current school photographer is giving you from print sales, we promise to beat it. If you are a registered charity, we can Gift-Aid that commission. Learn more.
3. Admin-free, no-hassle system for Schools
No paper order forms, no money to collect, no prints to distribute. In fact, nothing for the school to worry about apart from taking receipt of their commission. Learn more.
4. The most advanced online system
Our system of capturing, online proofing and ordering is the most advanced in the industry. Elegant, fully featured proofing and shopping cart supported by SSL protection and 168-bit encryption; the highest level of encryption currently available. Learn more.
5. Direct-to-parent delivery
No more distributing of prints to students. All of our photo packages, framed prints and canvases go direct to the customer’s door. Learn more.
6. All staff have Enhanced CRB-checks
All of our staff and photographer are CRB-checked with Enhanced Disclosure, annually. Learn more.
7. The Royal Photographic Society
All of our photographers are members of the Royal Photographic Society. We are unaware of any other school photography company that makes this demand. Just another example of how proud we are to stand apart in terms of quality and the service we provide. Learn more.
8. We take Data Protection very seriously
As important to us as the quality of our photography, is the limits we place on the information we collect, how short a time we keep it and what lengths we go to in order to protect it. In all cases we go beyond the required safeguards set out in the Data Protection Act 1998. Particularly when it comes to images of children. Learn more.
9. Free staff photographs
Refresh your the images of your staff, be they for your noticeboard, newsletters or employee communications. For free, of course. Learn more.
10. DVD of images for school database
We will provide a disc of images to populate your school database to enable the school to batch import and update their database, regardless of which one you use. Learn more.
What makes us the best
SEN Photography Experience
The School Room Studio a great deal of experience working with Special Educational Needs, and handle the photography for the UK’s largest provider of care, education, assessment, treatment and life skill development for people with complex epilepsy, physical and learning difficulties and other neurological conditions; the David Lewis Centre. Please do get in touch, since we are keen to come and speak to Schools about SEN and how our photography can be tailored to fit in with your unique requirements.
10-Point Promise
We promise to give you the best school photographs in the business. We promise to beat your current commission. We promise there will be no admin and no hassle. We promise you the most advanced secure online proof & ordering system in the industry. We promise direct-to-Parent delivery of all our products. We promise all of our staff and photographers are CRB-checked to Enhanced Disclosure. We promise all of our photographers are members of the Royal Photographic Society. We promise we exceed compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We promise you free staff photographs. We promise a DVD of images for populating your school database.
Who's behind the School Room Studio?
Lee Garland
Founded by Lee Garland ARPS ABIPP, the highly successful and award-winning professional photographer. His commercial work can be found regularly in The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Newsweek and Blueprint as well as clients such as John Lewis, Very, Harvey Nichols, Manchester United and Starbucks. He also lecturers on the (FdA) Photography & Digital Imaging Degree at The Manchester College/MMU. Before this, he was Chief Photographer and Picture Editor at Concept For Living and Spaces Magazines. Lee therefore leads the School Room Studio Ltd with a deep knowledge of high-end, commercial photography as well as an understanding of the education system. Each school shoot is approached with the same precision and…
Christopher Savage
Christopher Savage heads up the Technical side of the business. When we decided to develop the best, most elegant, and most secure online delivery of prints direct to Parents, we needed to enlist the best. Christopher has created database and online systems for some of the best, most forward-looking corporations in the world; Spotify, Manchester United, the Imperial War Museum. Christopher has lead the development of our school photography system from the beginning, and has managed to create a bespoke system that perfectly meets our 3 essential requirements. What we have achieved is the best, and most elegant, system of capturing students’ images and delivering them direct to Parents. Christopher Savage is our Technical Director.