Kansas City Corporate Photographer for Headshots, Teams & Events
I'm based in St. Louis, about three and a half hours east, and I photograph Kansas City teams on site: headshots, team photos, event coverage and video. The Merrill Lynch team on this page was photographed outside its own Kansas City office.
What we make for Kansas City teams
A headshot program is usually the first project. It is rarely the only one, and the same photographer handles the rest.
Corporate headshot programs
Whole teams photographed in one or two days, to one standard that holds as people join and leave.
See headshot programsExecutive portraits
Leadership portraits with the weight the business expects, for annual reports, press and the board page.
See executive portraitsBrand films and campaign video
Directed, filmed and edited by one person, from the first scope conversation through final delivery.
See brand film workRecruiting and employer brand
Culture photography and video made in the building people would actually work in, for careers pages and hiring campaigns.
See recruiting workCommercial and facility photography
A marketing team's image library for the year, so the next campaign does not start with a stock search.
See commercial workConference and event coverage
Sessions, keynotes, booths and headshot stations, photographed and filmed in the same visit.
See event coverageHeadshots are often one piece of a larger photo library. The same visit can also cover leadership portraits, recruiting content, workplace photography, video, or event coverage, and when one photographer handles all of it, the library looks like it came from one company.
See how the full engagement worksWhere we work across Kansas City
Most corporate offices are not downtown. These are the districts where the work usually is.
Overland Park and Johnson County
The Kansas side of the metro carries as much corporate office space as downtown does. We photograph on site in it, at Corporate Woods, at Aspiria, and out along College Boulevard.
Downtown Kansas City
The towers on Main, the Power and Light District, the Crossroads lofts and Crown Center. Four different rooms to photograph in, one standard across them. We work on site in whichever one your team sits in.
Where Kansas City teams actually sit
Almost every session happens on site, in your own building. Knowing the room before I arrive is part of what keeps the day on schedule.
The downtown financial district
Main, Walnut and Grand inside the loop, where the Class A towers stand: One Kansas City Place, 1111 Main, and the Art Deco Power and Light Building that held the skyline for half a century. Banking, insurance regulation and the big engineering headquarters sit within a few blocks of each other.
The Power and Light District and Crown Center
H&R Block anchors one, Hallmark the other. Two of the most recognizable corporate addresses in the city, both with lobbies and public spaces that photograph well when a team wants something other than a conference room.
The Crossroads
The design side of the city. Advertising, architecture and studio firms in converted warehouse space, including a good share of the metro's creative agencies. Brick, north light and freight elevators, which is a gift for environmental portraits.
Country Club Plaza
Law and wealth management, five miles south of downtown. Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell and a long list of advisory firms work out of the Plaza towers. Spanish tile and arcades outside if anyone wants to step out of the building.
Corporate Woods and the Kansas side
Overland Park's twenty-nine-building park has functioned as a second downtown since the seventies, with Aspiria, the former Sprint campus, a few minutes away. Easier loading, easier parking, and conference rooms with more daylight than most downtown floors.
Lenexa and Olathe
Life sciences, laboratories and engineering out along the southwest side, with Garmin's campus in Olathe. Lab and office environments in the same building, which is useful when a brand film needs both in one day.
What Kansas City is built on
The sectors that define this market, and what each one usually needs from a photography program.
Engineering and architecture
Burns & McDonnell, Black & Veatch and HNTB are all headquartered here, employing something close to ten thousand people locally between them, alongside Populous and a deep bench of design firms.
Employee-owner directories that stay consistent as firms grow, plus project and site photography that can carry a proposal.
Law
Shook, Hardy & Bacon has more lawyers working in Kansas City than any other firm, with Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell, Stinson, Lathrop GPM and Spencer Fane also based here. Three of them reach the Am Law 100.
Attorney bios matched across offices and practice groups, with new partners added later without a reshoot.
Financial services and insurance
UMB, Commerce Bank, American Century and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City downtown, with Lockton and a large advisory community on the Plaza and in Johnson County.
Large repeatable headshot programs across several floors and buildings, with a look that survives a reorganization.
Animal health
The corridor running from Manhattan, Kansas through the metro to St. Joseph holds the North American or global headquarters of a remarkable share of the world's animal health companies. There is nowhere else in the country like it.
Scientist and veterinarian portraits, laboratory and facility imagery, and recruiting material for companies competing for the same narrow talent pool.
Health systems
The University of Kansas Health System, Saint Luke's, HCA Midwest and Children's Mercy together staff most of the metro's clinical workforce on both sides of the line.
Physician directories at scale, photographed on site between clinics rather than in a studio nobody has time to visit.
Why KC Organizations Choose Us
Nearby & Available
Just a short trip from St. Louis. No long-distance travel logistics.
Professional Quality
The same photographer trusted by Boeing, KPMG, and Accenture.
Consistent Look
Multi-location companies get identical quality in KC and St. Louis.
Photography + Video
Headshots, brand films, testimonials, all in one visit.
Trusted by Leading Organizations
Recent Work in Kansas City
Every frame here was photographed on location outside the Merrill Lynch team's Kansas City office. The case study shows how the group portrait and the individual headshots were kept to one look.
Work photographed in Kansas City
The Merrill Lynch team was photographed on site in this metro
Most of the Kansas City photography on this site is one program: a Merrill Lynch wealth management team, photographed on location outside the team's Kansas City office rather than in a studio. Individual portraits and a group composite came out of the same visit, which is the usual shape of an on-site day.
Kansas City was one of four Merrill Lynch team headshot days we photographed across Missouri and Kansas. The others were in Olathe, on the Kansas side of this metro, and in Clayton and Springfield. The same photographer, lighting and retouching went to each office, which is why the four sets read as one firm.
A group composite is the part that pays off later. It means the team picture survives a hire or a departure without putting everyone back in front of a camera, and it is the reason these programs tend to hold their look for years instead of months.
Corporate events in Kansas City
The trip that covers a headshot day can also cover a conference, an awards dinner, a product launch or a company meeting. Coverage starts with a planning call and a shot list, then runs from setup through the last award: keynotes and breakout sessions, candid networking, sponsor signage and the moments your communications team will want for the recap. If attendees need new headshots, a conference headshot booth can be added to the trip as its own booking.
I photograph every event myself, and trusted photographers join under my direction when the program needs more than one room covered. The edited gallery comes back on a fast turnaround, organized by session. Travel and setup are quoted as separate line items on every proposal, so send the dates, the venue and the expected attendance.
See what corporate event coverage includesFrequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Kansas City photography.
Do you serve both sides of the state line?
What is the travel time from your St. Louis base?
Can you combine KC and St. Louis sessions for multi-office teams?
Which industries in Kansas City need this kind of work?
Do you offer same-week scheduling for KC?
What Kansas City venues do you recommend?
Photographing a team in Kansas City?
Tell me the headcount, the office or venue, and the dates, and I'll send a written proposal.
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