Rory Lewis: Portrait & Headshot Photographer

Los Angeles Portrait Photographer

Dodho Magazine Interview

April 25, 2019 in Published, Selah, London, Los Angeles, Interview

Thank you to Spanish Photography Magazine Dodho, interviewing me about my latest opus Selah. The magazine previewed a series of portraits from the project.

Ravi Kapoor Actors Headshots Los Angeles

April 23, 2019 in Actors Headshots, London, Los Angeles

Ravi Kapoor, fellow scouser is an actor and director known for Crossing Jordan (2001), Miss India America (2015) and Ad Astra (2019).

Bill Brochtrup Actors Headshots Los Angeles

March 28, 2018 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York

Bill arranged an update of his Actors Headshots at the Studio in Glendale.

Rufus Sewell (Actor) Portrait Acquired by National Portrait Gallery London

December 04, 2017 in Portraiture, Portraitist, National Portrait Gallery, London, Los Angeles, Top Moment

We are pleased to announce that a portrait of Actor Rufus Sewell (Dark City, The Man in the High Castle & Victoria) captured by Rory Lewis Photographer in Los Angeles last month, has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery London. The Portrait represents Rory Lewis SIXTH National Portrait Gallery Acquisition.

Baron Bernard Hogan-Howe, QPM Portrait Sitting

June 06, 2017 in Portraiture, Northerners, Corporate Commission, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York, Charity

Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, QPM is a former police officer and was the Chief of London's Metropolitan Police from 2011 until 2017.

John de Lancie Portrait Sitting

February 17, 2017 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, Expressive, Los Angeles, Star Trek, Top Moment

On 17th February a very rainy Los Angeles afternoon John braved the weather and sat for a portrait in Studio City.

Caravaggio Style Actor Portraits

December 23, 2016 in Leeds, Works, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Celebrity, Actors Headshots, Portraiture

Renaissance portraiture and the use of chiaroscuro by the masters has been of immense inspiration to my photographic style. For those unfamiliar, chiaroscuro is an oil painting technique, developed during the Renaissance.

Los Angeles April 2016

April 30, 2016 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Works, Expressive

April saw me spending three weeks back over the pond in Los Angeles, leading me to dub the city my second home. This avenue of photography has really taken off for my business. Back in 2014 it accounted for barely 2% of my work load. Now, in 2016, 15% of my assignments take place in the City of Angels.

Andrew J Robinson Portrait Sitting

October 10, 2015 in Star Trek, Portraiture, Expressive, Featured Sitting, Celebrity, Los Angeles

My Expressive Portraits Exhibition is enabling me to seek out opportunities to undertake Portrait Sittings with some impressive stars of stage, screen and TV. This has necessitated a fair amount of hopping back and forth across the Atlantic as I aim to bring a depth to the exhibition that would not be possible by staying on English turf only. I first wrote to impressive Director and compelling Actor, Andrew J Robinson, hoping to include him in a Los Angeles trip last September.

René Auberjonois Portrait Sitting

September 10, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, Los Angeles, Portraiture, Expressive, Star Trek, Top Moment

René Auberjonois has an instantly recognisable face which I believe becomes better and better with age. Star of stage and screen Auberjonois, has appeared in M.A.S.H, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Boston Legal to name but a few titles. I wrote to René several months ago to arrange the sitting in Los Angeles, and to my wonderment, he agreed to sit for a portrait during my visit to LA a few weeks ago.

Steven Berkoff Portrait Sitting

May 24, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Portraitist, Portraiture, Expressive, Top Moment

Steven Berkoff is an English actor who has also enjoyed prominent success as an author, playwright and theatre director. Often cast as the ‘big bad’ in his films, he has appeared in the likes of Rambo: First Blood Part II, Octopussy and as Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance.

Brent Spiner Portrait Sitting

March 10, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity, Expressive, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Top Moment

Many may not know, that despite living in my home town of Liverpool and having my studio in the city, I work both Nationally and Internationally. Actor Brent Spiner, who best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Peter Sissons Portrait Sitting (The Express)

March 30, 2014 in Charity, Corporate Commission, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York, Northerners, Portraiture, Rome, Advertising, Top Clients, Top Moment

Peter Sissons Portrait Sitting (The Express)

Peter Sissons is a British Broadcast Journalist. He was the presenter of the BBC Nine O’Clock News and the BBC Ten O’Clock News between 1993 and 2003, and earlier a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4.