Felicity Billen

Thirty years in retail management taught me how to read a room, talk someone down from a meltdown over a returns policy, and make a total stranger relax in under a minute. That’s the skill set I brought with me when I turned professional eighteen months ago, at 55. The setting changed. The job didn’t. I specialise in camera-shy business owners, particularly women in their 40s, 50s and beyond, because I know exactly how that discomfort feels, and exactly how quickly it passes once someone’s actually chatting to you instead of making you pose. No performance. No faff. Just properly good portraits, shot exclusively in natural light. I turn up with my camera, we have a chat, I take the photos. That’s it. Based in Mid Devon, working across the county.