About me
I am Bob Foyers. I have been making photographs since I was fourteen, and I did not arrive at it the usual way.
It started in a school darkroom
I was fourteen when I first watched a print come up in the developer. That was it, really. My parents saw where it was heading and built a darkroom at home, which is a generous thing to do for a teenager who has just discovered an expensive hobby.
Everything since has been some version of the same thing. Working out what light does, and getting somebody to look like themselves while it happens.
The bit in the middle
Photography did not become the job straight away. I cooked professionally, and I served in the Royal Navy, before it turned into what I do full time.
Neither of those was wasted. A kitchen teaches you to work at pace with other people under pressure without any of it showing in the room. The Navy teaches you to be somewhere on time, prepared, and to get on with people you have not met. A shoot needs all of that more than it needs another lens.
The studio
I work from a studio at Base Business Park in Rendlesham, near Woodbridge, on the site of the former RAF Bentwaters air base. It is a strange and rather good place to make pictures.
Wickham Market is the nearest station. Woodbridge, Ipswich, Saxmundham, Aldeburgh and Framlingham are all an easy drive, and I work on location across Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
What I actually shoot
Most of my work is commercial. Corporate headshots and executive portraits, personal branding, and commercial photography for businesses across the region. That side of things lives at foyers.photography.
This site is the model portfolio work. It is a separate thing on purpose, so that somebody booking a headshot and somebody building a modelling book are not looking at the same page.
I am a member of the SWPP and the RPS.
How I work with models
Everything through this site is safe for work. Chaperones are always welcome and you never have to ask. I do not touch models, so direction is given by talking or by demonstrating from a respectful distance. You can stop at any point, for any reason. Anyone under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian present for the whole session, with no exceptions.
None of that is unusual. It is written down because I would rather you knew it before you got in touch than had to work it out on the day.
I am a straight ally, and everyone is welcome in my studio.
Why there is an advice section
A lot of what a new model needs to know is not written down anywhere useful. What the words in a casting call mean, what you are signing, what a shoot day actually looks like, and what the money side involves once you start being paid.
I have watched people get caught out by all of it. The advice pages are my attempt at filling that in. None of it is a sales pitch, and most of it applies whoever you end up shooting with.
Come and have a look
If you are thinking about a shoot, or you just want to ask something first, get in touch. No obligation either way.