For English-speaking professionals in Zürich
New job, new city, or your own company? Your photo is the first thing a recruiter, client or new team sees. I direct you into a portrait that looks like you on a good day, without the awkwardness, with files ready for LinkedIn, your website and your applications.
Essential: 3 photographs · 20 minutes · CHF 150 · Zürich.
Full: 15 photographs · 60 minutes · CHF 300 · Swiss travel included.
Sessions in English.
No modelling experience needed.
Availability: Any day of the week. Choose your date in the form below.
The feeling, in photographs
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A fashion photographer's eye. A portrait that's yours. You need a little direction, beautiful light, and room to be yourself. A glance. A shape. A moment that feels like you. Bring that attention to your own portraits. Sixty minutes outdoors, just for you. Sessions in English, anywhere in Switzerland. Three hundred Swiss francs, including my travel within Switzerland. We'll agree the location together. Choose your fifteen favourites. Your edited photographs arrive within twenty-four hours of your selection and final payment. A fashion photographer's eye. A portrait that's yours. Plan your editorial portrait.
You don’t have to figure it out alone
That’s my job. Where to stand. When to move. Where to look. You get clear, gentle direction throughout, with room for your own personality to come through.
A new role, a new website, a new chapter. Tell me what the images are for and I’ll help you choose the mood, clothes and location. The free Portrait Prep Kit covers what to wear and how to prepare.
We’ll work outdoors in natural light: in Zürich for Essential, or at an agreed Swiss location for Full. Expect conversation, simple movements and a look at the first frames together.
Pick your 3 or 15 favourites, depending on your package, from a private selection gallery. I’ll finish each one and send high-resolution files plus versions ready for your website and profiles.
A few ways of seeing a person
Soft light or strong lines. A quiet moment or a little movement. We’ll find the direction that suits you.
Selected portrait and fashion work. The CHF 300 offer is an outdoor portrait session for one person, with travel within Switzerland included. Studio hire, hair and make-up, and advertising productions are quoted separately.
Choose your session
CHF 150
3 edited photographs · 20 minutes
A focused outdoor portrait session in Zürich, in English. Personal direction and high-resolution and web-ready files.
CHF 50 deposit · CHF 100 balance before finished files.
Choose Essential ↗CHF 300
15 edited photographs · 60 minutes
More time and variety, outdoors in Switzerland. Personal direction in English, with travel within Switzerland included.
CHF 50 deposit · CHF 250 balance before finished files.
Choose Full ↗Both include preparation guidance, your choice from a private gallery and the First-Frames Promise. Finished files arrive within 24 hours after your selection and final payment. Studio hire, styling and paid location fees are separate.
The Zürich Profile Portrait
Personal attention, thoughtful direction and photographs you can put to use straight away.
CHF 50 reserves your date and time and counts towards the price.
CHF 250 before delivery of the finished files.
Start with your personal portrait plan and the free Portrait Prep Kit, with what to wear, how to prepare and where the light is best.
CHF 300 covers the session, 15 edited photographs and travel within Switzerland for this introductory offer. Extra images are optional and quoted before purchase. Studio hire, hair and make-up, location fees and brand advertising licences are separate.
We’ll review the first frames within the first ten minutes. If the direction doesn’t feel right, you can stop the session there and you pay nothing: your CHF 50 comes back. If you continue, the normal session price applies.
Who’s behind the camera
A photographer based in Zürich. My work has appeared on PhotoVogue, Vogue’s photography platform, and in Enzomnia Magazine, VIGOUR and Beautica, with cover photography for STYLÉCRUZE and Photohouse. On a portrait session, my job is direction: I’ll tell you where to stand, where to look and what to do with your hands, and we check the first frames together.
Less to figure out
Three choices give you a starting point for clothes, location and photographs. No email needed. You can add the plan to your booking, or skip straight to a date.
I’m ready to choose a date ↗A starting point, not a fixed shot list. The package stays CHF 300 for 60 minutes and 15 edited photographs. We agree the location and details together.
Your plan is sent to Philip only when you submit a booking.
Before you book
Yes. You don’t need modelling experience or a collection of poses. I’ll guide you throughout. Tell me if anything feels uncomfortable and we’ll adjust the approach.
No. It’s for anyone who needs a good photograph of themselves: men and women, any age, especially people who don’t enjoy being photographed. My portfolio shows fashion work because that’s where I learned to direct people in front of a camera.
Yes, if the day allows it. I’ll tell you the price before you decide, and nothing is added without your yes.
Sessions are in English. That’s the point: you can relax, ask questions and understand every bit of direction.
Choose something that fits well and feels like you. The free Portrait Prep Kit has the outfit rules and a day-before checklist. After we agree your date, I’ll help you decide on an outfit that works with the location and the way you want to use your photographs. Hair, make-up and styling services are not included.
Essential takes place outdoors in Zürich. Full can take place at an agreed outdoor location in Switzerland, with my travel included. We confirm the exact location and any venue or permit fees before you pay. If the weather makes the planned session unsuitable, we’ll choose another date without a rescheduling charge.
You’ll choose 3 favourites with Essential or 15 with Full from a private selection gallery after the shoot. Your finished photographs arrive within 24 hours of receiving your selection and final payment.
Pick a date and time below and press Reserve. Your slot is held for 24 hours; send CHF 50 by TWINT (or ask for bank details) to confirm it. The CHF 50 counts towards your package: CHF 100 remains for Essential or CHF 250 for Full, due before delivery of the final files. Nothing is charged automatically.
You can move the session once without a charge with at least 48 hours’ notice, subject to availability. For later changes or a no-show, the CHF 50 reservation is kept. Weather-related changes and the first-frames refund promise are handled as described above. If I cancel and we cannot agree another date, I refund your booking payment.
Both packages include use on your own website, professional profiles and social accounts, as well as personal prints. Advertising campaigns, product promotion, resale and use by another business need a separate agreement.
Only with your separate permission. Booking a session does not give permission to publish your photographs in my portfolio or on social media.
I’m photographing five English-speaking professionals in Zürich free of charge: the full 60-minute session and 15 edited photographs. In return, you send honest written feedback within seven days and give written permission to show your photographs, first name and role on this website. Your words and photos will only be shown with your written yes, labelled as a complimentary session. Write “Founding Five” in your message below to apply.
More ways to work together
A voucher worth CHF 300 for one portrait session, as a PDF with the recipient’s name, and no expiry date. Write “Gift voucher” and the recipient’s name in the form below and I’ll send payment details and the voucher by email. Pay by TWINT, bank transfer or cash.
Consistent portraits for a whole team in one morning, at your office or nearby. Quoted on request: tell me how many people and where in the form below.
A longer session with two locations and several looks, for your website, speaking profiles and press. Quoted on request before anything is booked.
Email me your current profile photo at solobayphilip@gmail.com and I’ll reply personally with the one thing I’d change. Free, no obligation. Or start with the free Portrait Prep Kit.
Your next photograph starts here
Pick your date and time, and it’s yours for 24 hours while you send the CHF 50 reservation. Questions first? Message me on WhatsApp ↗
One person. One session.
Essential: 3 photographs · CHF 150 · Zürich
Full: 15 photographs · CHF 300 · Swiss travel included
Sessions in English
Your date is held for 24 hours
To confirm it, send CHF 50 by TWINT to +41 79 299 76 98 with your reference in the message, or email me for bank details. It counts towards your selected package. I’ll confirm the location with you at .
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