S&B Automotive Academy
“A portfolio of photos that is on message and helps to build your brand.
Marcus is an experienced professional, who listens carefully to the customers’ needs and wants.”
Phil Marsh, CEO at S&B Automotive Academy
A training provider in Bedminster, Bristol, with over 50 years of experience. S&B run automotive and business apprenticeships, from body repair and auto-electrical to heavy vehicles and management, and train apprentices for employers, including Veolia.
The brief
Photography for their website and marketing, showing real learners and tutors across the workshops, the bodyshop and the classroom.
How we did it
Four visits over three years, so each part of the academy was photographed on a normal teaching day. S&B are just down the road from my studio, which made it easy to come back as courses changed.
In the workshops I photographed learners stripping down engines, running diagnostics on laptops and working under raised vehicles. In the bodyshop, apprentices in white suits and hoods spray-painted panels in the booth. In the classroom, tutors led sessions on teamwork and leadership. Nothing was staged for long: learners kept working, and I worked around them.
How S&B use the photos
On their website, and printed large as murals along the academy’s corridors and stairwells, so learners walk past their own work every day.
