Sport, Fitness, Wellness and Health Photographers

Whether you are looking for a photographer for an amateur sporting event or an international sports brand advertising campaign, our team have the experience and skills to cover your activity or project. From yoga to surfing to the Olympics and boxing our sports photographers have covered pretty much every possible sporting activity.

Our photographers have capabilities to capture huge scale public events requiring energy and quick thinking or to create perfect lighting conditions within a studio or on location to capture athletic movement and postures. Or you might find them shooting from horseback or in the water alongside competitors as they are keen sportspeople themselves. They are warm and friendly and capable of eliciting the most relaxed responses from either professional athletes or fitness models in any situation.

We can also arrange photography and videography teams for larger events or activities.

Experienced sports photographers in London

As part of our growing London and international team we have a core selection of photographers who specialise in sports, fitness, health, wellbeing and action photography. All of them are keen competitors or sportspeople themselves and not afraid to get close to the action to capture the best shots whether that’s climbing mounts, getting in the water, or atop a horse to ensure that they are part of the activity. Our photographers all shoot with state of the art camera equipment required for fast moving action photography as well as specialised equipment for water based games.

Each of our team have their own unique style and favourite sporting hobbies and we can match your brief to the most experienced and suitable photographer.

What makes a good sports photographer?

As well as the obvious technical experience required to enable our photographers to shoot in fast paced environments, busy events and challenging low lighting conditions our team understand how to interpret a brief and work in any situation. Whether you are organising an amateur charity sports gathering or it’s a mass participant event such as a marathon or football stadium game we have the perfect photographer to capture this for you.

Our teams all shoot with top of the range cameras, lenses, lighting and when necessary studio equipment and are fully insured for working in all kinds of environments. Some have many years of formal training and other’s are self taught but it’s the output of their work that we select them on. Their ability to capture a moment, story and character.

As well as being talented at taking creative and high quality pictures, our photographers are lovely and fun people to have at your event in the city, who will always go the extra mile to delivery the highest quality gallery of images for you whilst being an unobtrusive presence at your function or gathering.

Matching the right photographer to your event

We know it’s important to match the right photographer to the right project. Whilst the Raccoon house style of editing is consistent, we give our photographers free reign to shoot in their own individual style. We know our photographers personally and we know who is going to be best suited to a surfing event, yoga class or a polo match. We understand their passions and want to ensure that you have the person who is going to connect with your event and understand your objectives.

Once we have your brief we check the availability of the team and send you their portfolios with our personal recommendations so that you can make the final selection as to who you want on your project.

Because of the size of our team you can rest assured that we will always be able to provide a photographer in London even at the last minute, and have a large team of back up photographers should there ever be a problem or emergency.

Delivering your photographs

We understand that there are different requirements for delivery depending on the event. Our standard turnaround time is 48 hours. However, we can also offer on-site delivery and same day delivery of pictures if this is requested on booking.

All of your pictures are professionally edited according to the clean and bright Raccoon house style and delivered on a private online gallery which can be shared with press, family, friends and colleagues. Images can be downloaded in high resolution and prints ordered directly.

Our fast turnarounds mean that you aren’t kept waiting for your pictures from your party or to get those all important first images out to press. As standard delivery time is within 48 hours however images can be delivered as a social media highlights selection the same night or if required we can provide an on-site editor to deliver images virtually in real time. Many of our team have cameras that can deliver photographs direct to a mobile phone.

Why should you use an agency for your photography?

Raccoon London was established in 2008 and over the last 15 years we have photographed thousands of events for our clients which range from private individuals through to some of the world’s largest businesses. In 2018 we expanded our operations to Europe and Worldwide to build our team overseas. As a result we are able to service the needs of clients based in the UK but have operations globally to ensure a consistency of style in the output but also take on the management and production of the media elements of an event for our clients.

We have a full time support operations staff based in London so are readily contactable even when our photographers are out on shoots. We have an extensive network of creatives and can check availability quickly and deliver quotes within hours of an enquiry. With a large photography team we can ensure that any issues due to travel or sickness can be covered hastily without any concerns for yourself.