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Marin Daria
Photographer · London

Marin Daria

Portraits, fashion and editorial — shot in my own six-space studio in south London.

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Highlights

400+
sessions shot
8
years behind the camera
25
editorials published
6
spaces at Studio6ix
1 week
from shoot to selects
SE15
shot in south London

Services

Portrait sessions
from £450
Studio portraits for actors, founders and anyone who needs a headshot they will actually use. Two focused hours at Studio6ix.
What you get
Two hours at Studio6ix, lighting and backdrops set for you
You choose from the full gallery, nothing pre-filtered
10 fully retouched images
Personal use included; commercial licensing on request
Book a portrait session
Editorial & commercial
day rate from £1,200
Magazine features, fashion editorials, campaigns and lookbooks, for magazines, brands and agencies — concept to final selects, in studio or on location.
What you get
Concept and references agreed before the day
Studio or location anywhere in London
Crew, stylist and assistant arranged on request
Final selects delivered in 5 to 10 days
Enquire about a commission
Studio hire at Studio6ix
from £320 a half day
Six spaces under one roof for photographers, stylists and production teams who need the room, not the photographer.
What you get
Six spaces: two cyclorama stages, a lifestyle set, a kitchen studio, a podcast room
Profoto lighting and grip included
Load-in from the yard, parking for two vehicles
Someone on site all day
Book the studio
Portfolio review
£90 an hour
An hour on a call over your work — what to cut, what to shoot next, what to charge for it. Send the link a day before and I will have read it properly.
What you get
A sequenced edit: which images stay, in what order
Notes written up afterwards, one page, yours to keep
Rates and licensing, if that is the part you are stuck on
Format
Video call, or in the studio if you are in London
Who it is for
Assistants and second shooters going out on their own
Book a portfolio review

Products

Limited Lamplight No. 4 Edition of 25, signed and numbered on the back. £120 Buy at the print shop Series I, signed Hardback, 96 pages, signed on the title page. £38 Buy from the publisher Postcard set Six prints, A6, from the two series. £14 Buy at the print shop

Projects

Shared on request
Spring campaign, unnamed brand
Jun 2026 Commissioned work
Six days between London and Margate, a crew of eleven, stills and stop-frame from the same set-ups. The brand goes public in September and the images travel with it; until then this is all I can put on a page.
What the job involved
Two locations scouted and lit for continuity across six days
Stills and stop-frame captured from the same set-ups, one pass
180 selects delivered graded, in print and social crops
For
Agency client, under NDA
Images
Under embargo until September 2026
Outcome
180 selects delivered, print and social cuts
Series II — lamplight
Mar 2026 Personal work
A six-frame study shot after hours on the small stage: one lamp, one chair, and whatever the smoke did.
What they said
“We ran three of these off the back of one email. He had shot them for himself, which is usually a bad sign, and they were the strongest thing in the issue.”
Ines Whitcombe
Picture editor, monthly magazine
For
Personal work
Where
Studio6ix, small stage
Outcome
Three frames picked up by a monthly
Skills used
Studio lighting Editorial portraiture
Series I — studio portraits
Nov 2025 Commissioned
Actors and founders, shot on white over four days. The brief was headshots people would actually use.
What they said
“Fourteen of us went through in four days and nobody looked like they were having their photo taken. I still use mine.”
Devi Sharma
Founder, Ashgrove
For
Private clients
Where
Studio6ix, cyclorama
Outcome
14 sitters in four days, all selects inside a week
Skills used
Studio lighting Retouching
High-key beauty
Jun 2025 Editorial
A black-and-white beauty story for a monthly, shot in a morning and delivered inside the week.
What they said
“Six pages, styled on the day, and the first selects were with us before the end of the week. That does not usually happen.”
Tomas Brandt
Art director
For
Monthly magazine
Where
On location, Hackney
Outcome
Shot in a morning, delivered inside the week
Skills used
Studio lighting Retouching
Back-catalogue licensing
Feb 2025 Licensing
A publisher wanted forty frames out of ten years of negatives. The work was the sorting and the paperwork: what exists, what it is worth, what they are allowed to do with it and for how long.
What the job involved
Ten years of negatives catalogued and keyworded
Forty frames selected with the editor, scanned and graded
Licence drafted per use: territory, term, print run, ebook
For
Independent publisher
Where
Remote, from the archive
Outcome
Two-year licence, print and ebook, renewed once

Credentials

Drone operator authorisation
Civil Aviation Authority, United Kingdom
Valid to Mar 2027 Licence
Held since 2021, for the aerial frames on venue and property shoots. Renewed every year, flights logged, operations manual current.
On the certificate
Issued by
Civil Aviation Authority
Reference
GVC-1042-8871
Category
General VLOS Certificate, A2 CofC held
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Valid until
12 March 2027
Public liability & indemnity, £2M
Hiscox, London
Valid to Sep 2026 Insurance
Cover for working on client premises and in venues, plus indemnity on the work delivered. Venues and estate agents usually ask for the certificate before the day; it goes over by email the same hour.
On the policy
Insurer
Hiscox Underwriting Ltd
Policy
HX-4471902
Public liability
£2,000,000 any one claim
Indemnity
£250,000 professional indemnity
Valid until
30 September 2026
Adobe Certified Professional
Adobe, sat online
2022 Certification
Photoshop, which is the half of the job nobody sees. Sat after ten years of doing it daily, mostly so it is written down somewhere other than my invoices.
On the certificate
Issued by
Adobe
Credential ID
8H2K-9QF3
Exam
Photoshop, Creative Cloud
Awarded
June 2022
Expires
Does not expire
Enhanced DBS certificate
Disclosure & Barring Service, United Kingdom
Issued Feb 2025 Background check
Kept current for school portraits and family work. The paper copy travels in the bag, and schools or agencies can see it before they book the day.
On the certificate
Issued by
Disclosure and Barring Service
Certificate no.
001742938
Level
Enhanced, child workforce
Issued
4 February 2025
Update service
Subscribed, checkable online
BA Photography
London College of Communication, London
2008 — 2011 Degree
Three years on the BA, most of it in the studio and the darkroom. The final project was a set of thirty portraits of market traders, shot on 5×4 over one winter.
What it covered
Studio practice, large format and darkroom printing
Editorial and documentary modules
Final project: thirty portraits, exhibited at the degree show
Skills evidenced
Studio lighting Editorial portraiture Documentary photography
Studio lighting, Level 3
City & Guilds, London
2013 Award
Taken in the evenings while assisting, to put names to things I had been copying off other photographers.
What it covered
Tungsten and flash, metering and ratios
Multi-head setups for product and portrait
Assessed on a portfolio of six lit briefs
Skills evidenced
Studio lighting
Colour grading for stills
The Photography Institute, Online
2019 Course
A working course taken the year the editorial work picked up — grading for print and for screens, and how to keep a series consistent across both.
Skills evidenced
Colour grading

Experience

Founder & photographer
Studio6ix, London
May 2021 — now 5 yrs 4 mo
The studio I built — a warehouse between Elephant & Castle and Peckham with six spaces under one roof: cyclorama stages, a lifestyle set, a kitchen studio and a podcast room. I shoot my own work here, and when I'm not in it, you can be.
What I did there
Built six hireable spaces from an empty warehouse floor
Shoot every commission and both personal series on site
Run the bookings, the kit and the people on the day
Skills used
Studio management Art direction Client direction
Documenting photographer
Bermondsey Arts, London
Feb 2024 — now 2 yrs 7 mo
Ongoing documentation of exhibitions and residencies — installs, openings and the work itself, shot for archives and press.
What I did there
Exhibition and install documentation across two venues
Press images delivered the same week as each opening
Skills used
Documentary photography
Senior photographer
The Editorial Studio, London
Mar 2022 — Nov 2023 1 yr 9 mo
Ran the biggest sittings on the desk — cover portraits, difficult subjects, tight days — and the retouch pass that followed them.
What I did there
Cover and feature portraits for three monthly titles
Ran sittings end to end: lighting, direction, selects
Final retouch pass on every frame that shipped
Skills used
Editorial portraiture Retouching
Visiting tutor
London College of Communication, London
Sep 2019 — Jul 2022 2 yrs 11 mo
Taught the studio lighting module on the BA — lighting as a set of decisions rather than a set of diagrams.
What I did there
Ran the second-year studio lighting module
Portfolio reviews and degree-show selection each spring
Skills used
Teaching Studio lighting
Photographic assistant
Rankin Studio, London
Sep 2016 — Jun 2018 1 yr 10 mo
Two years on set. I loaded film, built lights and learned how a shoot is actually run before I was allowed near a camera.
What I did there
Lighting setups and grip for around 90 shoot days a year
Digital tech on set, tethering and first-pass selects
Kit maintenance and studio bookings
Skills used
Studio lighting Digital tech Grip
Printer
Hoxton Film Lab, London
Jan 2015 — Aug 2016 1 yr 8 mo
Hand printing for photographers who still shot film — contact sheets, exhibition prints and the colour work nobody trusted to a machine.
What I did there
Black-and-white hand printing to exhibition standard
Colour grading on the lab’s scanner chain
Skills used
Darkroom printing Colour grading

Expertise

Studio lighting15 yrs
Retouching12 yrs
Darkroom printing3 yrs
Editorial portraiture10 yrs
Colour grading7 yrs
Location shoots7 yrs
Documentary photography2 yrs

All expertise

16 · years in practice
Studio lighting2011– now · 15 yrs
Retouching2014– now · 12 yrs
Digital tech2014– 2019 · 5 yrs
Darkroom printing2015– 2018 · 3 yrs
Grip2015– 2018 · 3 yrs
Editorial portraiture2016– now · 10 yrs
Exhibition printing2016– 2021 · 5 yrs
Photographic theory2017– now · 9 yrs
Colour grading2019– now · 7 yrs
Location shoots2019– now · 7 yrs
Teaching2019– 2022 · 3 yrs
Art direction2021– now · 5 yrs
Client direction2021– now · 5 yrs
Studio management2021– now · 5 yrs
Set logistics2021– now · 5 yrs
Documentary photography2024– now · 2 yrs

Locations

Based in
London
Studio6ix, 14 Tanner Street, Bermondsey SE1 3LD
Get directions
United Kingdom
Areas served
40 km
Greater London
On site
Within about 40 km of the studio
600 km
United Kingdom
On site
Travel and accommodation quoted
2,400 km
Europe
On site
Commissions of three days or more
—
Anywhere
Remote
Casting, planning and review calls

Availability

Monday 09:00 — 19:00
Tuesday 09:00 — 19:00
Wednesday 09:00 — 19:00
Thursday 09:00 — 19:00
Friday 09:00 — 17:00
Saturday 10:00 — 16:00
Sunday Unavailable
Shoots outside these hours by arrangement. Weekends fill up two to three weeks ahead, so early messages help.

Questions

What does a portrait session include?
We plan the shoot together — mood, styling, references — then shoot at Studio6ix. You choose your selects from the full gallery, and 10 fully retouched images are delivered within a week.
Where do shoots happen?
Most sessions are shot at Studio6ix in Peckham, SE15. Editorial and commercial work can be shot on location anywhere in London.
How do I book?
Email or DM me with what you have in mind and when — I'll come back with dates and a quote.
Can I use the photos commercially?
Personal use is included with every session. Commercial and editorial licensing is agreed per project.

Resources

Files
Rate card 2026PDF · 320 KB Studio6ix floor plansPDF · 1.4 MB
Links
Website — book the studiostudio6ix.co.uk YouTubeyoutube.com Behancebehance.net

Testimonials

We ran three of these off the back of one email. He had shot them for himself, which is usually a bad sign, and they were the strongest thing in the issue.
Ines Whitcombe Picture editor, monthly magazine

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