Photograph rights & portfolio consent

Effective 13 November 2026

This page explains how uploaded images and permission for public use are treated.

Photographs supplied for frames

Upload an image only if you are entitled to arrange its printing and have any necessary permissions from its rights holders and people depicted. Tell the studio about any restriction before production.

The studio receives only the permission needed to review, prepare, print, deliver and support the requested frame. Uploading does not give the studio a licence to sell the image, publish it as portfolio work or use it for unrelated promotion.

Commissioned photography and film

Your written booking agreement should explain copyright ownership, the licence to use and share the delivered work, whether commercial use is included and what files will be supplied. Indian law applies where the agreement does not provide otherwise.

A website policy should not be read as an automatic assignment of a client’s commissioned-work rights. Public website photographs also cannot be copied or used without the necessary permission from the applicable rights holder.

Separate portfolio permission

We seek separate permission identifying the images, people, purpose and channels of public use. Permission for a website portfolio is not automatically permission for paid advertising, third-party licensing or every social platform.

The studio should record permission before publishing identifiable client images and arrange appropriate guardian permission for children. Please raise any concern about an image by email or WhatsApp with a link or description.

Refusing or withdrawing optional marketing permission will not by itself cancel a booking. The studio will explain what it can remove from its own channels and any limits affecting copies already distributed.

Sample images and takedown requests

Images currently labelled as samples are references used during site preparation. The final public portfolio must contain work the studio is entitled to publish and must not imply another photographer’s image is its own assignment.

If you believe an image infringes your rights or discloses a private event without permission, provide the page link, image description, your relationship to the image and a contact method. The studio will investigate through the complaints process; do not include identity documents unless specifically and proportionately requested.