With a transport and economic ecosystem that’s conducive to the growth of business, there’s no surprise that organizations, both large and small, choose Atlanta as their home. From Coca-Cola and UPS to CNN and Delta Air Lines, the most recognizable brands in the world choose the ATL over other big cities in the USA for their headquarters. In addition to the imagery required for selling products and services in national and global markets, these corporations need imagery to reward and recognize the efforts of their workforce, turning Atlanta corporate photographers into a prized commodity. After combing through our directory, we’ve assembled the best available options below.
At Wonderful Machine, corporate photography broadly encompasses the world of business, often showing people dressed in business attire in business environments doing business-like things. It can be shot in reportage, lifestyle, portrait, or conceptual styles. The photographers we’ve identified explore these different styles within the specialty, giving you a variety of approaches for your next campaign.
We tend to look at corporations as profit-driven machines devoid of any feeling. Perhaps they are, but Atlanta corporate photographer Gregory Miller will encourage us to question that position. Whether on set with people as themselves or models playing a part, Greg looks to connect with others through the camera. His photography brings the story of his subjects into sharp focus, getting up close and personal yet remaining unseen at the same time (looks like he got himself an invisibility cloak from Hogwarts!). The moments he snaps on camera are genuine, natural, and authentic, providing a down-to-earth representation of corporate life. There are people and emotion in these corporations, quite unlike what we’ve come to believe in the past.
Going for more color and vibrance than any other Atlanta corporate photographer, Patrick Heagney finds the glamor and beauty in work life, getting his subjects to pop on frame with their sunniest dispositions. He’s extremely gifted in taking corporate portraitures outside the studio, showing subjects taking a moment to pause, reflect, and enjoy the fruits of their labor. In fact, his images would make most people envious of the success they see before them.
Patrick’s photos have been featured in Atlanta Magazine, The Huffington Post, Gotham, Forbes, and Men’s Journal. He has also joined hands with organizations such as Bentley, Rémy Martin, CBS, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
When he first got going in the field, Scott Areman was a documentary photographer in New York. Over the years, though, his evolution took him to the corporate specialty, leaning on an editorial and evocative approach in the discipline. As a result, Scott’s photos are heartfelt and intimate. In fact, Wonderful Machine covered one of his signature projects for UPS, Black Voices in Big Brown, in more detail. It was a book that celebrated the legacy of African American executives at the company, and Scott had the honor of photographing those exceptional individuals. From all of this, you can easily gather Scott’s photojournalistic tendencies, striving for a perspective that makes “corporate” look less corporate.
Scott’s client list includes UPS, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, Microsoft, Walmart, and CVS Health, to name just a few.
With a professional photography career going beyond thirty years, Joe Boris always gets the risk-reward ratio to work in his favor, snapping the best possible pictures from the worst possible situations. Whether he has to lay in a mud pit or hang from a helicopter, Joe guarantees quality photos for his clients. His corporate portfolio reveals people in lifestyle situations and portraitures, demonstrating flexibility with the imagery he can deliver. But whichever area he covers, he opts for clean and uncluttered compositions that don’t distract from the subject.
Joe aims to photograph people, products, services, and organizations with their core values on display, ensuring the client’s vision is manifested through his images. A partial client list of Joe’s includes AGCO, Argos, Coca-Cola, Delta, GE, Honda, Mercedes-Benz Credit Corp, SunTrust Bank, Vermeer MV Solutions, and many others.
Gregory Campbell is an Atlanta corporate photographer who developed an eye for the cinematic. His corporate portfolio features powerful compositions to highlight people, relying on a dramatic use of perspective and lighting to do so. It’s no surprise to those familiar with his background, working as a key grip on Hollywood movie sets who rigged an assortment of lighting setups. Through natural and artificial sources, he casts different auras around his subjects, ranging from awe and wonder to goodwill and camaraderie.
With a quirky sense of humor in tow, Gregory shoots beyond the corporate specialty, covering lifestyle, drone, industrial, architecture, and portraiture. His clients include Apple, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Oracle, Nike, and countless other prominent brands.
If he had his way, Nick Burchell would have become a musician by now, but certain shortcomings forced him to consider the next best thing: the music business. However, he found the daily grind of the industry to be creatively unsatisfying, so he left that world behind and traveled across North America. This proved to be a wise decision, because during his journey, he discovered an avenue for creativity through documentary photography.
Now, many years later, his roots within that specialty are apparent in his corporate portfolio, striking a bond between camera and subject through empathy. Even within the most well-choreographed photos on set, there’s no sense of the subjects putting on an act, a credit to Nick’s technical and communication skills.
Gary S. Chapman cares deeply about the world around him. He has been to over 80 countries, documenting humanitarian stories with his camera to raise awareness and help build communities. Outside of that focus, he operates within the specialties of portraiture, kids, lifestyle, education, healthcare, and corporate. His imagery of the business community shows a unique tact in handling space and light to frame a subject. The environment seems to reflect the energy and mindset of the person in the photo. For instance, an abundance of light shining through may complement a woman brimming with a smile, or another grinning while on her laptop may be hiding a different emotional state, revealed through her hazy reflection on the wall beside her. In Gary’s photos, the surrounding talks just as much as the subject.
Organizations such as TOMS Shoes, Delta, World Vision, National Geographic publications, National Geographic TV, Johnson & Johnson, and Atlanta Mission have all turned to Gary’s services.
Whether you require images for internal communications or external promotions, these are seven of the best Atlanta corporate photographers, furnishing different tones and styles of compositions to meet your objectives.
Further Reading
See more corporate photographers in Atlanta on our Find Photographers page.
Learn more about other types of photography on our Specialties page.