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CSR and social impact photographer, London
Show what changed. Not just that you turned up.
Documentary photography of your community programmes, employee volunteering and charity partnerships, from a photographer who has led a charity for more than 12 years. Images your stakeholders believe, your charity partners are proud of, and your impact report can actually use.
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CSR photography from £950. One-off shoots or a monthly retainer. Available at short notice.
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The problem
Most CSR photography proves you were there. Not that anything changed.
The brief is usually the same. A volunteering day, a cheque handover, a group shot in branded T-shirts. Those images prove attendance. They don’t prove impact. And the cost isn’t only a weak report. It’s the next budget conversation, when someone asks what the programme achieved and the pictures can’t answer.
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The handover shot
Big cheque, lanyards, smiles to camera. It shows your company. It doesn’t show the change.
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Stock in the impact report
The same faces appear in other companies’ reports. Readers notice, and trust drops.
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The safe space problem
The programme promised confidentiality. The report needs proof it happened. Most photographers can’t hold both.
Nishkam SWAT, London
“It’s truly incredible to see NishkamSWAT’s work captured so beautifully. Matt’s talent and attention to detail really shine through, and we’re grateful for the care he put into documenting our work. The quality of his work speaks for itself.”
Randeep S Lall DL
CEO, NishkamSWAT
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A better way
Photograph the change, not the visit.
Good CSR photography starts before anyone picks up a camera. It starts with one question: what is different now, and for whom?
Plan the story first
A one-hour story planning session before the shoot. You and I agree what changed, who it changed for, and where you would see it.
Observe, don’t direct
Several shorter visits beat one long day. People stop noticing the camera, and the real moments happen.
Consent built in
Everyone knows how the images will be used before I arrive. Where people can’t be identified, I photograph hands, spaces and objects, or hand them the camera.
Your charity partner comes out of it well
The people your programme supports are never props. Partners see the images before they go live.
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What I photograph
CSR, ESG and community investment photography
For CSR, social impact and sustainability teams, community investment programmes, corporate foundations and the funders behind them.
One shoot. A year of use.
Planned properly, one shoot feeds everything you publish about the programme.
One shoot
Impact report
ESG report
Website
Intranet and staff updates
Social channels
Board and leadership updates
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How it works
How a CSR photography project works
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A 15-minute call
You tell me about the programme, the partners and the deadline. I tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit.
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Story planning
One hour together before the shoot. What changed, for whom, and how consent and confidentiality will work.
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The shoot
One visit or several shorter ones, timed around what is genuinely happening. You see images as we go, so there are no surprises.
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Edit and delivery
Edited, full-resolution images, normally within 48 to 72 hours, or the same day on request. A full licence to use them anywhere, with a photo credit.
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Ways to work together
Three ways to work together
One-off
From £950
One shoot, planned around the story you need to tell. Story planning call, edited images within 48 to 72 hours, captions guidance.
Retainer
Monthly, quoted after a short call
Regular shoots across the year, following your programmes as they happen. Built for impact and ESG reports, and for the moments that come up at short notice.
Co-produced
Quoted after a short call
For programmes where people can’t be photographed. Participants take the pictures, with me alongside them. The process becomes part of the story.
Every project includes a full licence to use the images anywhere, for good, with a photo credit. Available at short notice. Storytelling support and workshops for your team can be added to any project.
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Why a charity CEO
I’ve commissioned this work, not just delivered it.
I founded the Naz and Matt Foundation in 2014 and have led it for more than 12 years. I know what a charity partner worries about when a corporate team arrives with a camera, and what a CSR lead needs to show the board afterwards. That’s the gap I work in.
Award-winning storyteller and documentary photographer
Trusted in sensitive settings where people can’t be identified
Documentary photography for the community programmes of one of the world’s largest technology companies, 2024 to 2026
Work covered by more than 200 media outlets, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and The Guardian
We highly recommend Matt for his skill, professionalism, and the thoughtful approach he brings to photography, particularly when working with diverse and vulnerable groups.
Tom Lees
Old Diorama
90+
Talks and workshops given
200+
Media outlets that have covered my work
12+
Years running my own charity
54m
Audience reach of a 2020 World Suicide Prevention Day campaign I led
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Questions
Questions CSR teams ask before they book
What is CSR photography?
How much does a CSR photographer cost in London?
Can you photograph at short notice?
Can you photograph people who can’t be identified?
Do you photograph employee volunteering days?
Who owns the photographs?
Can our charity partner use the photographs?
Do you work outside London?
How quickly will we get the images?
What’s the difference between CSR photography and event photography?
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About
CSR photography, with people at the centre.
I’m a London-based CSR photographer and documentary photographer. I photograph employee volunteering, community investment programmes, charity partnerships and funded projects for CSR, ESG, sustainability and social impact teams. Every shoot is planned around outcomes, so the images work in impact reports, ESG reports, intranets, websites and board updates.
Dignity before polish
I’ve led a charity for more than 12 years, so I know what it’s like on the other side of the camera. Consent is planned before the shoot, people who can’t be identified aren’t, and your charity partners see the images before they go live.