NATURAL LIGHT SHOPHOUSE
PHOTO STUDIO IN SINGAPORE
White Room Studio is a natural light portrait photography studio at 219 River Valley Road in Singapore, five minutes from Fort Canning MRT, photographing families here since 2009 in a 1927 Peranakan shophouse. That is 19,000 sessions and counting, and we still get a little thrilled every time a family comes up our stairs for the first time and sees the light through those old windows. Tatler has named us Singapore’s Best Portrait Photographer nine years running, from 2017 to 2025, but the thing we are quietly proudest of is how many of you keep coming back.
Maybe there is a graduation gown hanging on the back of a door, or a one year old about to taste a cake for the very first time, or a team of forty who need headshots that do not look like passport photos. We photograph all of it. Newborns, families and children, maternity, cake smash, graduation and K2 graduation, couples, bridal, pets, glamour makeovers, personal branding and corporate work. Weekday sessions start from $390, and we will come to your home or out into Singapore if the studio is not where your story belongs.
You do not need to be photogenic, and you do not need to know what to do with your hands. That part is our job. We guide every pose, we send you outfit ideas long before the day, and there is professional hair and makeup if you would like to feel properly looked after. Have a wander through the galleries below and find the session that is yours.
A CORNER PERANAKAN SHOPHOUSE PHOTO STUDIO IN RIVER VALLEY
Our studio is 2,400 square feet across two floors of a 1927 Peranakan shophouse at 219 River Valley Road, and the two floors could not be less alike. That is on purpose. It means you never spend an hour standing in front of the same wall.
Level 2 is the warm, shadowy one. Old timber floors that creak in the nicest way, original squared wood ceilings with the beams still showing, and a textured Peranakan wall of vibrant tiles that we built ourselves. Level 3 is the opposite, all white wainscoting and tall original windows, with a classical archway we added and a balcony that looks straight out over the greenery of Fort Canning. Almost everyone assumes the archway and the Peranakan wall came with the building, but we actually built them! However, the timber floorboards, the ceilings, the tall windows and the balcony are the shophouse’s original.
You will move through both floors in one session, which means three or four completely different backdrops in one single space. Have a look at the gallery below and see the place for yourself.
Photoshoots at Our Singapore Studio
Our Awards and Accolades
TATLER BEST OF SINGAPOREBest Portrait Photographer
2017 to 2025
EXPAT LIVING READERS' CHOICE 2026Best Photographer
APAC INSIDER BUSINESS 2026Best Boutique Photography Studio
SASSY MAMA READERS AWARDS 2025Gold, Best Family Photographer
PARENTSWORLDBest Photo Studio for Family Portraits
LITTLE STEPS ASIASingapore's Top Family Photographer
HONEYKIDS ASIAEditor's Pick, Best Kids Photographers
BEST IN SINGAPORETop Studio for Family Photography
NO TWO FAMILIES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME, AND WE LOVE THAT
When you step into our light-filled River Valley shophouse studio, you will not experience any stiff, one-size-fits-all mold. Some of our portrait sessions are quiet, intimate, and tender. Others are a beautiful whirlwind! Think a toddler refusing to sit still while grandma laughs at the chaos. Honestly? Both make for absolutely incredible photographs.
Our four professional photographers each bring anywhere from 7 to 23 years of portrait experience to your session, which runs around ninety minutes. But all that experience really boils down to one critical thing and that is knowing when to give a little gentle direction, and when to step back and simply let your family’s real moments happen naturally.
We are here to capture the unforced smiles, the real belly laughs, and those small, unguarded interactions in between. Because those are the timeless portraits you will still be looking at, and holding close, twenty years from now.
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“The studio is huge and has many selections of backgrounds. Randy was good at directing the photoshoot and was very friendly, and he was able to capture most of the photos perfectly. He was also very patient with us and showed us different poses. Recommend White Room Studio for those taking graduation photos.”
Calico, graduation photoshoot
“Our family had a lovely time having our family portraits and graduation photos taken by Yan. They were kind enough to help us look through the studio’s collection for specific schools’ graduation gowns before the shoot. Both the photoshoot and the photo review session were a breeze and professionally handled.”
Judith T, family and graduation photoshoot
“We went for a family shoot with our toddler and newborn. I was extremely impressed with Justin, our photographer. He was extremely patient with us and our newborn, and he made the whole process so easy, especially when you are stressed out with a crying hungry newborn.”
Antonio, family and newborn photoshoot
“Delun and the team feel like old friends who have watched our family grow. They don’t just take photos, they capture our story.”
Dowan and Michelle, returning family
Photoshoot FAQs
How much does a photoshoot cost in Singapore?
Weekday sessions at White Room Studio start from $390 and cover up to four people. Weekends and public holidays add a $100 surcharge, extra people are $20 each, and pets count as one. An outdoor session anywhere on the island adds a $150 location fee. Prices vary a little by session type, so message us and we will send the full rate card for yours within one business day.
Where is White Room Studio and how do I get there?
We are at 219 River Valley Road, Level 2, Singapore 238277, in a conserved 1927 Peranakan shophouse. It is a five minute walk from Fort Canning MRT, buses run along River Valley Road, and there is parking at UE Square and along the road itself.
How long does a photoshoot take?
Most sessions run around ninety minutes, and groups larger than twelve run for two hours. That includes settling in, moving through three or four settings across both floors, and changing outfits. Nobody is rushed out of the door.
How many people can join a photoshoot?
Up to forty. Our 2,400 square feet across two floors is what makes that possible, and multi generation sessions with grandparents, adult children and a newborn all in one frame are among the shoots we photograph most. Pets are welcome too.
What kinds of photoshoots do you offer?
Families and children, newborns, maternity, first birthday cake smash, university graduation, K2 kindergarten graduation, couples, bridal, pets, glamour makeovers, personal branding, and corporate headshots and team photography. If your occasion is not on that list, ask us, because it almost certainly fits.
Do you photograph outdoors or at my home?
Both. Outdoor sessions carry a $150 location fee and we photograph anywhere on the island, most often at the Botanic Gardens, Fort Canning, Tiong Bahru, the National Gallery and Capella Sentosa. We photograph at your home too. And our Level 3 balcony looks straight out over Fort Canning, so you can have outdoor light without leaving the building.
What should we wear?
We send you personalised outfit guidance well before the day, so nothing is left to the morning. Coordinated tones photograph far better than everyone matching, and comfortable beats formal every time. There are two vanity rooms, one on each floor, for changes and touch ups.
When do we see the photographs?
You come back to the studio one to two weeks later and we go through them together on a big screen in the gallery room. Your favourites are then retouched and made into digital files, fine art prints, framed portraits or a hand stitched album. Most families take longer than they expected, because narrowing it down is genuinely hard.
White Room Studio is a photography studio in Singapore specialising in natural light portrait photography, and we have worked from the same address since 2009. We are in a colonal-era 1927 corner shophouse at 219 River Valley Road, five minutes on foot from Fort Canning MRT, and we have never once wanted to be anywhere else!
The studio runs to 2,400 square feet across two floors, which is rare here, and it is the reason we can fit forty of you into one photograph without anyone being squeezed out of the frame. Weekday sessions start from $390 and cover up to four people. Weekends and public holidays carry a $100 surcharge, and an outdoor session anywhere on the island adds a $150 location fee. We will photograph at your home too, if that is where the memory actually lives.
We photograph families and children, newborns, maternity, first birthday cake smash, university and kindergarten graduation, couples, bridal, pets, glamour makeovers, personal branding, and corporate headshots and team photography. We keep the posing light and let the studio’s own light and texture do the work, because the photographs you will still love in twenty years are almost never the ones where everybody was told to smile.