PHOTOGRAPHING SINGAPORE’S LEADING SEARCH FIRM
Since 2003, Kerry Consulting has placed senior talent across banking, legal, technology, healthcare, energy and commodities, consumer, real estate and many other industries. Its consulting team is among the largest in ASEAN. In March 2026 their Executive Director Cecelia Koh spoke to Channel NewsAsia about how employers assess a candidate’s digital footprint, naming consistency and credibility as what gets judged. Kerry Consulting applies that same test to its own public image, and White Room Studio has photographed Kerry since 2009.
“They gave us something we did not know to ask for. Not headshots, the firm itself on a page. It changed how we present Kerry entirely.”
Declan O’Sullivan, Founder and CEO, Kerry Consulting
Client Kerry Consulting Pte Ltd, executive search and selection. EA Licence 16S8060, Suntec Tower Four, Singapore
Photographed by White Room Studio, 219 River Valley Road
Scope Brand campaign 2019, full staff revamp 2023, ongoing new-joiner portraits
Usage Perpetual, across all collaterals and campaigns
Used on The Kerry Consulting home page, leadership team and consultants pages
Consultants with clients, in their own meeting rooms
What a company brand photoshoot includes
Most companies book headshots and stop there. Kerry Consulting briefed the whole business instead.
- Leadership and consultant portraits
- Reception, signage and office interiors
- Consultants at work and with clients
- Outdoor and building imagery
- Careers and recruitment images
- New joiners, photographed to match as they arrive
“Most corporate photography gives you headshots and a couple of office shots. This gave me range. Every image request that lands on my desk, I can answer from these shoots.”
Richard Delaney, Content Marketing and PR Manager, Kerry Consulting
INSIDE A TWO-DAY CORPORATE BRAND CAMPAIGN
In 2019, Kerry reserved two full days and kept the floor clear. Four makeup artists worked alongside us across both. Reception came first.
Kerry Consulting’s reception, photographed on a long exposure
Dan, our co-founder says, “As a photographer, the most important thing on a shoot like this is working out what the picture has to say before you work out how to take it. We looked at that reception and knew an empty room would photograph as a quiet company, which is the opposite of what Kerry is. Knowing that, we decided to hold the camera completely still on the signage and open the shutter long enough for their people to move through the frame. The brand mark stayed sharp and everything else became movement.”
For the portraits we went warm rather than dramatic. A consultant’s photograph is often the first thing a candidate sees when deciding whether to trust this person with a career move, and dramatic lighting says thriller rather than trusted adviser. There is more on how we approach this in what to expect at a professional headshot session.
Consultant portraits, lit warm rather than hard
Highlighting Corporate Dynamism and Trust
These action shots help to illustrate the professional relationship Kerry consultants have with their clients and candidates: a collaboration based on trust and understanding.
There is often a general worry that corporate photography can come across as stiff and overly theatric. However, with the right expertise and direction from our photographers, corporate photography can result in authentic and dynamic portraits, just like the photos below.
Pictured: It is never a dull day at work as a consultant
Consultants in Action
These lifestyle portraits were taken at Kerry Consulting’s Singapore office, which show their consultants thoroughly engaged in a discussion. Using the corporate surroundings rather than a studio set-up for such shots makes the employees feel more at ease, creating more spontaneous interactions both on camera and behind the scenes.
Focusing on the synergy between their employees and their body language, we strive to capture the true nature of their consultants at work. This set of imagery helps to define their brand and it also evokes credibility in the recruitment industry, where people are at the heart of the recruitment process.
Midday light in Singapore is unforgiving, so we worked the angles until the towers’ perspective lines carried the frame and the light fell across the consultants rather than onto them. Then we asked them to walk instead of pose.
See also our top outdoor locations for a corporate shoot in Singapore.
Three Brands . One Photography Campaign
The staff at Kerry Consulting all had one thing in common: confidence. The business suits worn by the men for this shoot were generously sponsored by Zegna, an Italian luxury menswear brand. “The suits are simply an extension of their confidence,” Dan adds. “No one had to stop and pose for the photos. As they were crossing the sidewalk, I only reminded them of how they truly belonged here in this commercial district.”
From their impeccable attire to the relaxed, assured smiles on their faces, each consultant radiates a confident energy as seen from this collection of branding photos. Three firms at the top of their respective fields, which is about the standard Kerry sets for anything carrying its name.
“I have built this business across four continents and commissioned photography in most of them. I have not come across a studio that reads a company the way White Room Studio reads one.”
Declan
On the Website
The photos played a major role in the success of Kerry Consulting’s branding campaign as a premium recruitment firm in Singapore. The images run across Kerry Consulting’s website, on the home page, the leadership team page and the consultants pages, in all five published languages.
Photographing 70 staff on location
In 2023, Kerry Consulting came back to White Room Studio to revamp all personnel portraits across the board. Seventy people were photographed on location across three sessions with one photographer and one assistant, and we brought in all lighting and backdrops. The brief asked for four images per person. One on a backdrop, three in their conference room.
We run shorter days too. A high-volume format moves at five to ten minutes per person on a single setup, one portrait each, clearing twenty people in two to three hours or forty in three to four. Both formats are documented the same way, so the people photographed in either still match the ones who join later.
Standard turnaround is two weeks. When a company has a launch date, we work to theirs.
“Coordinating the whole firm is the sort of thing that normally generates a hundred emails. It generated almost none. They gave me a running order and kept to it.”
Trisna Yanti, Personal Assistant to the CEO, Kerry Consulting
Keeping team headshots consistent as people join
Many companies’ team pages fall apart over time. Four different backgrounds, three different decades, and one person who is unmistakably at a wedding.
The thing we thought about most was what happens after the main shoot. Consultants would continually join the growing office of Kerry, so we decided to document everything on the day. Lens, distance, height, where each light sat. Applying that record years later means someone photographed in 2026 sits on the same page as someone photographed in 2023 and nothing looks added on. Since 2023, new consultants come to our River Valley studio and we rebuild that setup exactly in the studio, and then added the office background in post-production. We set out why this matters in why consistent team headshots matter.
“We have used those photographs across every part of the business for years. They remain current, and every consultant who joins goes to the same studio.”
Running this at a smaller company
A company brand shoot does not depend on being a firm of Kerry Consulting’s size. A thirty-person business runs the same structure in a single studio day, leadership and team together, with new joiners sent in one at a time afterwards.
The logistics are in how to organise a corporate team headshot shoot. Or send us a brief at corporate@whiteroomstudio.com.sg.
Common Questions About Corporate Brand Photography
A full brand shoot covers leadership and staff portraits, reception and office interiors, working and lifestyle images, group shots, and outdoor or building imagery. Kerry Consulting’s campaign covered all of these across two days. Companies receive perpetual usage across all collaterals and campaigns.
Twenty minutes on a session like Kerry Consulting’s, covering a backdrop portrait and three in their own conference room. A high-volume day runs at five to ten minutes per person on one setup, clearing twenty people in two to three hours or forty in three to four. We plan the day around what the images are for, and document the setup either way so later joiners match.
White Room Studio documents the setup on the shoot day, including lighting positions, lens, distance and eye level. New joiners come to our studio at 219 River Valley Road, where the setup is rebuilt exactly and their office background applied in post, so their portrait matches colleagues photographed on location years earlier.
Yes. Kerry Consulting’s seventy staff portraits were photographed on location at their Suntec Tower Four office across three sessions, with all lighting and backdrops brought in. Studio sessions at 219 River Valley Road are also available, and many companies use both over time.
