TravelTek boss Business Portraits

Kenny Picken business portraits

I was commissioned to take some business portraits of Kenny Picken, MD of TravelTek at his offices in East Kilbride last week. The pictures were ahead of their announcement that they are creating 200 new jobs.

With all my portraits I try to capture a piece of the story of the person in front of my lens. Because these pictures were targeting the business press it was important to show that Kenny was the boss of a company in the travel industry. I did a quick recce of the nearby area on Google Street View before heading down there. I wanted to see whether there were any possibilities for showing some context to this exciting worldwide travel business. Unfortunately, it was a a wet snowy January morning. The area around the head office didn’t quite fire my mojo in the way I was hoping for. Especially after reading about the company’s offices in Miami, Syndey, Hyderbad and the soon to open Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Dubai.

But once I arrived, I found a host of offices with floor to ceiling photographs from palm fringed Caribbean beaches, the Sydney Opera House, Hong Kong by night. This gave me a fantastic opportunity to inject some sunshine and glamour into the portraits, all the travel context I could have hoped for.