A long dinner table in a dark room, set with flowers and lit only by candles.

The light after the main lights go down

Photographs of dinners, supper clubs and long evenings, taken by candlelight and never with a flash.

The Afterhours way

I work quietly at the edge of the room, with the light that is already there. Nobody poses, nobody is asked to say cheese, and the pictures look like the evening felt.

White flowers and lit candles along a set dinner table.

Three kinds of evening

From a dinner for eight to a restaurant's first night. Every booking includes an edited gallery within a week.

Private dinners

Friends laughing around a candlelit table covered with food and glasses.

Birthdays, anniversaries and Friday nights that deserve remembering. Three hours, from the first drink to the last candle. From £480.

Supper clubs

A crowd of people eating and talking along a long table under a canopy.

For hosts who need photographs for next month's tickets: the room, the plates, and the people enjoying them. From £360.

Restaurant openings

Guests seated along a long table in a dark, beautifully lit restaurant with a large chandelier.

The first night, once. Kitchen, dining room and the faces of the first guests, ready for the press the next morning. From £650.

Said after
the evening

"Not one person noticed him, and every photograph looks like a painting."
Nadia, a 40th birthday

"Our supper club sold out the next three months on these pictures."
Owen, The Back Room

"He caught my father laughing. We had not seen that in years."
Rachel, an anniversary

A few evenings

Shared with the hosts' permission.

Enquiry

Three women talking and laughing over glasses of wine and a board of food.

A long table set with white plates, glass bottles and lit candles.

Hands raising glasses of red wine above a festive dinner table with candles.

A woman smiling as she raises her glass across a candlelit table.

A group of friends dining by a big window with the evening view behind them.

A long wooden table laid with plates of food, candles and glasses, seen from one end.

Before your evening

Tall candles and plates of food on a table, glowing in a dark room.

Keep the candles

More candles, fewer ceiling lights. If the room is dim enough to feel nice, it is bright enough for me.

A table with candlesticks, orange flowers and small plates in warm light.

Tell me the speeches

Who speaks, roughly when, and who they will be looking at. That is where the best faces are.

Friends in sparkling clothes sharing food and drinks around a dark table.

Let me eat at nine

Ten minutes and a plate in the kitchen. Then I am back for dessert, which is when people stop being careful.

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