Your photographs deserve more than a hard drive.
Professional album design and handcrafted albums for anyone with photographs worth preserving: from wedding days and family heritage collections to corporate events and milestone celebrations. All designed by a former WPJA UK Photographer of the Year with print and design expertise.
You have photographs you love. And they're sitting in a folder.
Maybe it's your wedding day. Hundreds of beautiful images your photographer delivered, yet not one of them exists in the real world. Maybe it's a box of your parents' photographs from the 1960s you've been meaning to do something with for years. Maybe it's last month's corporate event, or the retirement party for a colleague who gave thirty years of service.
Whatever the photographs, the story is the same. They're digital files on a hard drive, prints in a shoebox, or images in a phone gallery. They deserve better. You always meant to turn them into something. A proper album. Something you can hold, and turn the pages, and feel something.
You looked at a few photo-book websites. Maybe you even started dragging images into a template. But it was harder than it looked, the result didn't feel right, and eventually you closed the tab.
That's exactly why this exists.
Professional album design for any collection of photographs.
I'm Ian Bursill. I've spent over thirty years working with images. Ten years in print production, learning how ink meets paper and why what looks good on screen doesn't always look good in your hands. Four years running a design studio in Leicester. Then twenty years as a UK documentary wedding photographer, with over 450 weddings, the WPJA UK Photographer of the Year title in 2009, and three regional UK wedding industry awards for Best Photographer in the East Midlands (2012, 2014 & 2015).
Now all of that experience is focused on one thing: designing and producing albums that do justice to your photographs. You send me your images. I learn about the story behind them. And I design a professional album, coffee-table book, or soft back book that's as good as the photographs inside it.
Great documentary-style wedding photography is an art that is hugely in demand, and British photographer Ian Bursill has just proved that he is one of the best in the world at delivering this service.
Whatever your photographs, there's an album for them.
More than weddings. Any story worth keeping.
If your photographer delivered digital files only, I'll turn them into something you can hold.
Seen an album you must have? I'll source it.
The curated range is where most projects land, but it isn't the limit. I hold trade accounts with album makers across the UK, Europe, the US, New Zealand and Australia, and I can source from any manufacturer in the world. If you've seen a specific album, size, material or finish you love, tell me about it and I'll have it made to a higher standard. Albums from other suppliers will be added to the site over the coming months.
Albums people still reach for, years later.
"We love our photo album. Now 13 years later, and with two children, it's great to sit with them and go through it — a treasured keepsake we will always be grateful for."
"You created more than a documentary of the day. You created a moment in time that will never be forgotten."
"We adore and cherish our album — it's regularly pulled out, and even though the day was 11 years ago, it's instantly brought alive again, as if we were there doing it all again."