Fenwick
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Portrait & Wedding Photography · Ludlow, Shropshire

Three generations, one steady hand.

A studio sitting, a wedding day or a boardroom of headshots — photographed the way it has been done here since 1957, and printed properly.
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Established 1957 · Broad Street, Ludlow
No. 001
The studio, north-light room

Why sit for Fenwick

Three generations of practice

Walter Fenwick opened the studio in 1957. His granddaughter Constance runs it now, trained on the same principles in the same north-light room.

60,000 negatives, safely archived

Every sitting since 1957 is catalogued and stored — glass plate, film and digital alike. Order a reprint from a sitting your grandparents had.

A named photographer, not a rota

You will meet Constance or Idris before the day, and the same person photographs you start to finish. No handovers, no strangers with a camera.

Sittings & prices

Six ways to sit for us, from a first passport-style portrait to a full day of wedding coverage.
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The Family Sitting£245
Studio · 60 minutes · 5 prints included
Up to six people in the north-light room, with time built in for the youngest ones to settle.
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The Heirloom Portraitfrom £395
Studio · fine-art print, hand-framed
One considered portrait, retouched by hand and finished in a frame chosen from our own workshop.
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Wedding Documentaryfrom £1,850
Full day · two photographers · online gallery
Getting-ready to first dance, told the way it actually happened rather than staged for the camera.
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The Boardroom£165
On location · per person · minimum of four
Corporate headshots in under ten minutes each, lit to match across the whole team.
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Archive Restorationfrom £85
Per image · glass plate or film original
Damaged or faded family photographs, cleaned, repaired and reprinted from the original.
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The Debut Sitting£195
Studio · 45 minutes · digital gallery
Milestone portraits for the eighteenth, the twenty-first, the graduation gown.
Prices include studio time and a private online gallery. Sitting fees are payable on booking; prints, frames and albums are ordered separately once you have chosen your favourites.

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A studio that has never moved

Walter Fenwick opened the studio in 1957, in two rented rooms above a saddler’s on Broad Street, with a single Rolleiflex and a war-surplus enlarger he rebuilt himself. In 1962 he bought the building outright and knocked the rooms into one — the north-light studio you sit in today, more or less unchanged but for the radiators. Constance Fenwick, his granddaughter, trained in New York before coming home in 2016 to take the studio on, and still uses his light meter out of habit rather than necessity.
The people behind the camera
Manager
Constance FenwickPrincipal Photographer & Studio Director

Third generation. Trained in New York before coming home in 2016 to run the studio her grandfather built, and still uses his light meter out of habit.

Idris OkaforAssociate Photographer

Leads our wedding and documentary work. Trained as a photojournalist before joining in 2019, and shoots every wedding on a second camera loaded with film.

Lead
Priya ShahPrint Studio & Retouching Lead

Runs the digital darkroom that replaced the wet one in 2011, though she still hand-prints from the archive when a client asks nicely.

Ben TalbotStudio Coordinator & Client Liaison

Keeps the appointment book, answers the phone, and knows the negative archive better than anyone else still living.

“Four sittings, three generations, one studio. I don’t know how they’ve kept it feeling exactly the same and somehow better every time.”
A client since 1998
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Professional service from start to finish. The team understood our brand quickly and delivered ahead of schedule.

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Questions we hear most

If you don’t see your question here, Ben answers the phone most days and email always gets a reply within one working day.

Studio sittings are usually 45 to 60 minutes, though we build in extra time for families with young children or anyone who is nervous in front of a camera. Weddings are costed by the hour and typically run a full day, from getting-ready shots through to the first dance.

Yes — every sitting gets a private online gallery within a week, showing every usable frame, and you take as long as you like choosing before anything is printed. We never print or charge for an image you have not approved first.

We have been digital-first since 2011, but Constance shoots weddings on a second, film-loaded camera at no extra charge, and a small number of clients book a genuine film studio sitting each year, priced the same as digital.

In most cases, yes. Priya has repaired water damage, tears, fading and even a photograph that spent a decade in a damp attic — send a scan or bring the original in, and we will tell you honestly what is possible before you commit to anything.

Twelve to eighteen months for a summer Saturday, since we only take on one wedding a day and popular dates go quickly. Weekday and winter weddings can often be booked with a few months’ notice instead.

They stay in our archive indefinitely, at no cost to you, catalogued by year and surname. You can order a reprint or a fresh digital copy at any point in the future — some of our clients have done exactly that, decades later.

Regularly, across Shropshire and into Herefordshire and Powys at no extra charge within twenty miles of the studio; beyond that we add a modest travel fee, quoted honestly before you book, never as a surprise on the invoice.

Deposits are non-refundable, but we will move your date for free with more than 48 hours’ notice, or more than 30 days for a wedding. Inside that window we do our best, though we cannot always guarantee a swap, since another client is often waiting.

Yes — vouchers for any sitting or for a fixed amount, valid for two years, available in the studio or by phone. A popular choice for milestone birthdays and anniversaries when you are not quite sure which sitting someone would choose for themselves.

Bookings

The light is good most mornings.

Tell us the occasion and we will find the right session and the right light for it. A person answers — never a booking form that goes quiet.
Book a sittingCall 01632 960 118
Studio open Tuesday–Saturday · Evening sittings by arrangement · Deposit secures your date

Visit the studio

We are at 14 Broad Street, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1NN — two minutes’ walk up from the Buttercross, on the same side as the old saddler’s the studio began above in 1957. There is metered parking on Broad Street itself and a longer-stay car park off Corve Street, five minutes down the hill. Studio open Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30 to 5:30 — closed Sunday and Monday, a rule Walter set in 1957 that nobody since has seriously argued with.

Find the studio

14 Broad Street, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1NN — look for the brass plate by the door.