Our Story Begins Here
❊ About Us
Building Creative Confidence.
One Photo at a Time.
Little Lens Club was founded by Sophia, a photographer who has built her business around authentic, nostalgic storytelling.
What makes this journey different is that she didn’t follow the traditional path. Picking up her first professional camera just a few years ago, she taught herself everything she now shares, learning through experience, curiosity and a willingness to trust her own creative eye.
In many ways, she was the original student, and proof that the approach behind Little Lens Club works.
Little Lens Club didn’t start as a business plan. It started as a problem.
In the summer of 2025, I was growing a photography business I loved, but with two young children at home, I was struggling to balance work with childcare.
One day, I suggested running a few kids photography sessions for our children and their friends. My husband’s response?
“So your solution to not having childcare… is to become the childcare?”
He wasn’t wrong.
I planned to run two or three sessions. But those sessions quickly filled, then doubled, and before long parents were asking for more, for older children, for half term clubs, for something that didn’t seem to exist anywhere else.
So as a chronic people pleaser who can’t say no, fast forward and today, Little Lens Club offers children’s photography workshops throughout the year, with our KS2 group, Shutter Squad, now running weekly in and after school.
We’re also expanding into more schools, delivering creative photography sessions that support the KS1 and KS2 curriculum, giving children hands-on access to real cameras and creative learning.
My own journey into photography hasn’t been traditional.
I had always loved photography but didn’t feel qualified to pursue it as a professional photographer.
Thankfully, I had studied Theatre… so I acted as one, until even I fell for my own performance.
So I bought my first professional camera in 2023 and I taught myself. Since then I have gone on to work across commercial, editorial, family, weddings, events, personal branding, interiors and food photography, and had the opportunity to travel internationally through my work.
But the biggest thing I’ve learned is this:
skills can be taught, but confidence is built.
That’s what sits at the heart of everything we do.
Little Lens Club, Shutter Squad and Focus Collective are designed to help children:
Build confidence through creativity
Develop their own perspective
Learn real photography skills in a way that feels accessible and enjoyable
Because photography isn’t just about taking pictures, it’s about learning how to see.
In January 2026, Wex Photo & Video became our official kit partner,
donating cameras to support the programme, recognising the value in creative initiatives like ours.
I started this to solve a childcare problem.
I’ve continued it because it’s the kind of creative space I believe young people deserve.
And it turns out, a lot of other families would agree.
❊ Testimonials
Enjoyed by Kids. Loved by Parents. Trusted by Teachers.
Here are some of the very lovely things people have to say about us.
So well organised & Sophia is a dream with the children. My twins had the best day & really enjoyed doing something a bit different to normal holiday clubs.
They even asked to go to her house for a play date…They have already asked to go and do another.
— Georgina S., Parent
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Amazing experience, I find it hard to book clubs for my almost 11 year old creative daughter but this was perfect and she had the best time, the photos at the end were perfect!
10/10 kids club!
— Chloe B., Parent
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My daughter loved the Little Lens Photography session… recommended it to a few friends for their little ones too, highly recommend as the kids all had massive smiles on their faces coming back to be picked up.
— Laura S., Parent