We were lucky to catch up with Laura Fenwick recently and have shared our conversation below.

Laura, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s jump to the end – what do you want to be remembered for?

I think I’m less concerned with how people consider me, living or dead, and more concerned with whether my life offers something to the lives around me — and whether it’s a life that’s deeply explored, excavated, and endeavored. A fully juiced orange, as it were.

Professionally, that might look like photography that offers places or experiences as real and whole as I can translate them so they can come to life for folks and feel real and like memories; it’s spaces set with art that make them more inviting and pleasant to be in; it’s stretching my comfort zone with the proposals and bids and ideas I send out. Personally, it’s cheering for friends, for teams, for any effort spent towards a goal; remembering birthdays; hosting dinner parties; planting gardens; and holding my dog through noisy thunderstorms and reminding him that we’re always safer together.

My art gets better in every way when I’m paying close attention and my attention is keener and fleeter and more generous when I’m moving gently and trying new things and staying curious. My life gets better with those things, too. If I have a legacy, it’s what I can make happen from that place.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My name is Laura and my company is Fenwick Photo Arts. Based in Nashville, I offer photography and art consulting to clients and brands across the world. My work has been in Vogue, in GQ, has helped brands launch, grow, and redirect to stay inclusive and adaptive in their respective markets, and has been collected by art buyers for personal and corporate installations.

Clients have said that the greatest difference my work has afforded them is that they can speak to me in their language and I can translate it into something visual and perhaps more universal. Having attended both business school and art school (ask me about the time my marketing classmate leaned over to ask why I had clay in my ear), I understand what visuals need to do for a brand and how to reverse engineer their performance. For me, creativity flows best when I know the plan and can play and experiment within those guidelines.

We’d love to hear about how you keep in touch with clients.

Most of my contracts are return clients. I work really hard to take thorough notes, clearly understand their mission and vision, deliver the creative solutions that seem exactly right, function on time and on budget, and stay personable and accessible through it so they can be in touch if anything changes for them. When there are opportunities to add more value, I always offer those options, and when there are ways to play with more creativity as a result of how many needs we’ve already hit, that’s when we can dream and scheme a little more freely together.

Clients can also get discounts through the initiative Do Well + Do Good. For every ten hours of volunteering clients complete, Fenwick Photo Arts comps a future qualifying creative contract by 10%. For every quarter showing increased revenue, Fenwick Photo Arts makes a donation to a cause dedicated to humanitarian or environmental aid. Since the initiative launch in 2019, we’ve worked on some incredible projects including paying off student lunch debt in multiple districts, participating in Nashville tornado relief by making and distributing 7,000 meals following the storm, partnering with Parnassus Books to stock the library at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, and donating to some incredible organizations.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I once broke my ankle on a job. On the first day. Of a two-week travel job. In Mexico.

And I still shot the entire thing (…on a small, bouncy boat).

Contact Info:

• Website: https://fenwickphotoarts.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fenwick_laura/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-fenwick-1a1b8b40/

Image Credits

Laura’s Headshot — Andrea Behrends @dredrea

Other (8) images — Laura Fenwick // Fenwick Photo Arts @fenwick_laura @fenwickphotoarts