Transforming a room with black and white Nousha Photography children’s portraits
When I started thinking about where to put three framed Nousha Photography portraits we received for review from our shoot, the options seemed to be endless. I loved the images so much, and seeing the quality frames made me think our new portraits would be beautiful artworks we would want to have on display in a room where we would see them every day.
I’m sure I’m not the only mum who sees children’s portraits as art to transform a room design and treasure for years to come, so I’ve asked Nousha founder and ex-royal photographer Lionel Cherruault to share his thoughts on incorporating children’s portraits into interior design:
I love photography and I have been engrossed in it from a very young age, and I firmly believe some pictures belong on the wall to be displayed. Our images are only black and white, and they are true artistic studies of your loved ones at that particular stage in their lives. Our printing and framing is all done in-house to the very highest standards. We are using the very best in technology, materials and craftsmanship available to create something beautiful.
Photography of children can be art and art that sits well on your walls, but we hear a lot of fear of what others will think about hanging pictures of one’s children on the wall. I tell clients that if the picture is in itself a great picture then that is good enough reason to hang it on your wall, irrespective of who it is of. People will see it as a great and strong picture first, and then realise it is of your child second.
At the viewing a week after the shoot, clients can expect us to help them make the right decisions. We see clients discarding extraordinarily beautiful, strong and poignant portraits of their children because they are not smiling or not looking at the camera, but how many of the portraits you’ve seen in the National Portrait Gallery are of people smiling? We want clients to buy the very best we can offer, so you can enjoy these pictures forever.
We shoot specifically to create small picture stories that illustrate your child’s expressions, or how siblings react to one another often with very funny and heartwarming results, and during the viewing we can show groupings of images that work together. We can even bring up on screen a visualisation of those groupings with your choice of frame, and it is also possible to supply us with photographs of the areas you are considering hanging your images, so we can do a digital mock up.
These are the kind of pictures that get handed down through the family, get admired by friends and family alike, and will draw emotion from you whenever you view them–be it for a fleeting moment as you pass them on the stairs, or just sitting in front of them with a cup of tea or glass of wine.
Children change. They get bigger. They get even more demanding. Even more expensive. And through the notorious teenage years we’ve been told our pictures even have a powerful calming and comforting effect.
READER OFFER: For 50% off any shoot booking with Nousha Photography, use code Mummy16
when booking online. The offer expires 6 March 2016. The full price for a photo shoot with Lionel Cherruault is £500, and the full price for a photo shoot with a qualified Nousha photographer trained by Cherruault is £250.
The images used in this article are courtesy of Nousha Photography.
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