About Tom Doyle
Debuting as a filmmaker in 2003, his unique style and visual grammar has translated successfully into the world of commercial photography. Tom has been making insightful and award-winning pictures since he began his first business in 2006.
The British native photographs fashion, advertising, entertainment portraits, PR and Travel.
Tom has been presented with considerable awards for his work, including the ‘Most Promising New Business’ which congratulates young entrepreneurs who work independently in the field of the art and entertainment industry. In addition, the photographer has been bestowed a further 13 more international filmmaking accolades for his directing and producing work. Tom began working in independent film at the age of 16, writing, producing and directing feature films. Two years later, at age 18, he was merited with the ‘National Young Filmmakers Award’.
Tom has shot assignments in Mongolia, North America, Europe, Canada and Russia. His work has been showcased and exhibited in art galleries, arboretums, theatres and art centres across the UK, from the Highlands of Scotland, to the cities of Bristol, Winchester and London.
In late 2009, Tom was presented with the ‘photographer of the year’ accolade which was awarded from the Lowry Arts and Entertainment Centre, UK. The award honours the wealth of work, technical proficiency and artistic vision of the most prolific young photographer working in the UK today.
Tom’s diverse achievements range from shooting advertising and fashion campaigns to his emotional portraits on many of the entertainment celebrities working today. The photographer is known for his ‘workman-like glamour’ style, a compositional rigor and his elaborate productions set in lush settings. The images he produces blur the boundaries between public and private, formal and vernacular, and art and commerce.
While photography remains his primary focus, Tom is frequently engaged in multi-media projects for international clients. He shoots for a wide array of magazines and institutions including: Penguin Books, The British Film Institute, The BBC, Audi, Jaguar Land rover, Sony BMG and Waitrose.
Today, Tom’s goal is to photograph the human face and to communicate and portray what makes an image classical and memorable.
‘Stories in Pictures’ are a photographic greeting card service, so we are passionate about quality, inspiration and innovation, values that have guided us from the start and remain at our core. We offer an incomparable product for some of the most inspired retailers, greeting card publishers, art galleries and bookshops across the UK. Our products must enrich people's opinions to inspiring them to want to visit, understand and explore the locations and inspirational themes in the cards. We have conviction that a distinguished financial performance is essential to accomplishing our broader aims.
In addition to this, our universal belief explains that buyers often see designs that are not exactly what they’d like from a card: this allows us to provide them with another service. If customers have a photographic aesthetic design in mind, we offer an unparalleled service for producing customised designs of a customer’s choice with a CD of that artwork for future photographic cards they’d like made with us. These values guide our business strategies, our corporate behavior, and our relationships with suppliers and customers and each other.
There are no other products that offer this in the Worcestershire region.
We believe it takes four qualities:
a determination to be remarkable,
a commitment to stay courageous,
a passion for originality,
an unbound way of working and thinking that assures we forever stay open minded to the customers, resources, strategies and ideas, or technologies that might offer a solution.
Creating images that create desire.
Each and every greeting card you order is processed individually by our team. It is treated with the same care and importance as greeting cards sent personally.
By using ‘Stories in Pictures’ you can relax in the knowledge that your greeting cards are receiving individual care and attention and will be posted on time to a delighted recipient.
All our cards are handmade
"The photographic image can posses a moral weight greater than words."
Christopher Hitchens
What are our key aims?
That ‘Stories in Pictures’ is in the business of producing exceptional quality images for its customers to inquire, study and examine in detail both the location of the image and the message behind it. The objective to this is to influence and awaken customer’s imagination towards a specific feeling or thought. Both the image and the words create an intense interest.
The company provides outstanding results time after time: each product is value for money.
‘Stories in Pictures’ has an emotional commitment and responsibility to make sure that each message provides a sensibility and sensitivity whilst maintaining its core promise of
‘the power of images and their capacity to insight value, persuasion and action’.
We value and are committed to:
Excellence in all we do.
High standards of ethics and integrity.
Staying in touch with consumers through ongoing research and interaction to gain insight into their lives.
What gives the brand the edge over our competition?
Although motivational posters can entice audiences to want to visit and immerse themselves in the characteristic quality of an image, the arresting intimate and personal touch of a card is what customers want. They are mini-holidays in themselves and they have the opportunity to let us feel euphoric and create new moods and aspirations to see new horizons.
The quote listed on each card is a sentimental gesture to a family or loved one and this extends towards the commercial markets of selling our cards in institutions like theatres or arboretums. With regard to these markets alone, they could very easily have a visual tie-in with what an art gallery is exhibiting or with what theatres would like to sell in line with their in-house performances.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
