Light In The Black is owned and run by 'Nikon Discovery Award' winning photographer Patrick Kilian BA (hons)

"I'm Patrick, and I have been taking photographs since I was 5 years old !

I have always loved image, design and individual expression.

Formerly a professional stage and television actor for over 25 years, I am now on the other side of the lens and can appreciate your fears, desires and aspirations of your shoot. I just love what I do and would love to work with you to fulfil your visual ideas and dreams."

"Patrick is warm, personable, professional, puts you at your ease, and you end up with beautiful photographs. I will definitely use him again."

Michelle Austin, St Albans

Capturing the essential YOU through portraiture. It's ALL about image. Delightful home and office photographic presentations and evocative large scale wall art, Family, Dog, and Commercial Headshot photographic art and stylised story telling through pictures, Digital manipulation.

ALSO: Sales of Limited Edition art prints and bespoke framing services.

"I have an understanding, a passion for image, for visual representation, and for colour and light. It fascinates me that the natural play of light from the sun can have so many effects and illuminations as it touches the Earth. Sometimes hard hitting and sometimes softly caressing as it penetrates the atmosphere in an infinite dance of photons, temperatures and colours.  The interplay of that with lens and eyesight, and human psychology reminds me always of the inner universe and connects me to the wonder of creation. Capturing light and vision for me through photography is paramount to how I have lived my life, and offering my own humble contribution to others is an exciting pleasure."

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More about me:

When I was 12,  I was a sea scout on the shores of Wales, but I gave it up when my tent sank !

My very first professional job out of drama school was as a baddie miner in the James Bond film "A View To A Kill"

When I was 17 - I shovelled 4 tons of sand, 6 feet away and shovelled it back for the sheer hell of it !

An avid and life long fan of Shakespeare, my favourite play in the world is Hamlet !

I am a dad of two wonderful and loving sons and live with Julia and our cat Rudy !