Elina Patrou: Yoga, Pilates and Movement Portraits
Yoga and Pilates brand photography in London
Elina Patrou teaches yoga, Pilates and somatic movement alongside running the Elina Patrou Academy of Dance in Stanmore. This shoot was for her own personal brand, separate from the school, made to show the range of her practice rather than a single class or style. We worked across a full session, moving between poses and pauses rather than a fixed set list.
The brief was to photograph a body of work that moves between disciplines without looking like four different shoots. I kept the light and setting consistent across the session and let Elina's own transitions, the way she moves from a standing pose into the floor, set the pace, rather than directing each frame separately. That continuity is what makes the set read as one practice rather than a catalogue of poses.
This shoot sits alongside my studio and lifestyle photography for Elina's dance academy, same working relationship, a different discipline. For another personal brand shoot built the same way, see yoga and fitness brand photography with Tass Cambitzi-Herrera. Everything else is in the movement and wellbeing portfolio, and here is how commissions run.
Photographing someone across more than one discipline only works if you already know how they move, which is what a returning client gives you.