WHO WE ARE

Yaffé Photography Art & Design is a family run portrait studio built on one simple belief.

That the photographs people value most are rarely the ones they planned to take.

They are the ones that quietly become the most important.

For three generations, the Yaffé name has been trusted to create portraits that do not just decorate walls, but become part of a family’s story.

Not because they are technically perfect.
But because they hold something real.

Time.
Connection.
Presence.
Love.

ADAM YAFFÉ

Photography is in my blood.

My father was a photographer.
His father was too.

I grew up around cameras, darkrooms, and the belief that nothing is ever quite finished, there is always room to make something better.

That mindset never left me.

For over thirty years, I have photographed thousands of families at every stage of life.
Newborns, children, teenagers, couples, grandparents.

I have watched families grow.
I have watched generations return.
I have created portraits for moments people did not yet realise would one day matter the most.

Some of the days are joyful.
Some are heartbreaking.

Sometimes I photograph families who know someone will not be here much longer.
Sometimes I am asked to include someone who has already gone.

Those are not just photographs.
They are acts of remembrance.

To be trusted with that is a privilege I never take lightly.

SANDRA CARNEY

My relationship with Yaffé began long before I ever worked here.

I used to walk past Paul Yaffé’s gallery in Southport and promise myself that one day I would have a Yaffé portrait on my wall.

I still do.

And if my house was ever on fire, it would be the first thing I saved.

I have spent over twenty five years helping families choose the portraits that will become part of their lives.

I meet people at the happiest moments of their lives.
And sometimes at the hardest.

I laugh with them.
I cry with them.
And I care deeply about what we create for them.

Because I am not just a photographer or a sales consultant.

I am a mum and a grandma.

I know how fast time moves.
And I know how much these photographs come to mean.

WHY WE DO THIS

People do not come to us because they suddenly want portraits.

They come because something finally made them understand what they have already lost.

How small their children once were.
How fast time passed.
How many moments quietly disappeared.

We do not create images for today.

We create them for the future.

For the day someone looks back and realises how much was held inside a single frame.