University Photography — Graduation Portraits & Student Sessions at UK Universities
University photography encompasses both the formal ceremony side of graduation — the procession, the conferral, the official portrait settings — and the more personal record of a student’s time at their institution: the city, the campus, the people, the chapter. Both deserve proper documentation, and the best university photography sessions combine elements of both into a coherent visual record of the entire university experience.
Yana Skakun Photography offers university portrait sessions and graduation photography across the UK. For Cambridge, Oxford, London, and other university cities, sessions cover both individual portraits and family groupings, and can be scheduled around the timing of official ceremonies (before the ceremony for more relaxed portraits, after for the gown-and-scroll combination images).
Graduation Day Photography
Graduation day photography — as a private session before or after the official ceremony — produces images of a quality that official photographers at graduation events cannot always achieve. Private sessions allow for more time, better locations, genuine family moments and the relaxed expressions that only emerge when the pressure of queuing for an official portrait is absent. Cambridge graduation photography in the college courts and at the Backs is a particular speciality.
University Institutional Photography
For university departments, research groups, student societies and institutions needing academic photography — staff and faculty headshots, event coverage, research documentation, departmental group photographs or communications imagery — institutional packages are available at appropriate rates. Contact for information on institutional pricing and availability for university clients.