A layered double exposure of two women at a sunlit studio window, one reaching to adjust the other's shoulder
A woman pauses at a sunlit window in the Atelier108 studio, dried flowers and greenery around her
A woman rests on the studio floor by candlelight, wrapped in a blanket beside the window
An incense cone burns beside a lit candle on a wooden table, a small devotional statue softly out of focus behind
Rachel Okimo in a standing backbend, arms raised and hair in motion, barefoot in a softly lit corner of the studio beside a small statue and a potted plant
A hand rests over a bare foot on the Pilates reformer's shoulder rest, exercise balls visible in the studio behind
Rachel Okimo works hands on, a palm against a client's back as she folds forward, a framed anatomical print on the studio wall behind them
A close up portrait of Rachel Okimo, her reflection visible in the glass beside her

Rachel Okimo: Creative Movement Photography for Atelier108

Biomechanics led brand photography for movement studios

Rachel Okimo founded Atelier108, her private movement studio in Pimlico, after more than three decades across dance, classical Pilates, yoga, biomechanics and breathwork, including spells teaching for Lululemon, Equinox and triyoga. Her method also draws on the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems, the psychospiritual layer behind what her studio calls its broad body of knowledge. I was commissioned to build Atelier108's brand imagery: a set of pictures shot inside the space itself, among its plants, its small shrine and its reformer, that show what a session with her actually looks like.

The technique carries the story rather than illustrating it. In the studio's window light, two moving bodies were layered into a single slow shutter frame as a hand reaches to adjust a shoulder. Elsewhere the same attention shows up hands on: a palm resting over a bare foot on the reformer's shoulder rest, or Rachel steadying a client through a forward fold in front of a framed anatomical print, or her own body caught mid backbend, arms raised and hair still moving, beside the studio's small shrine. Nothing here is staged as a pose, it is what a session actually looks like, photographed while it happens.

This sits alongside creative movement photography with Ida May and personal brand photography for conscious studios in the movement and wellbeing portfolio. For a studio brand shoot built the same way, here is how commissions run.

If your studio has its own method, it is worth having pictures that show it rather than describe it. Get in touch.