2025: WRAPPED!

Written By Drew Forsyth

As the year draws to a close, December is the perfect time to reflect on highlights, achievements, and unforgettable experiences of 2025.

Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, here’s my own breakdown of the numbers that tell the story of my 2025:

Number of shoots: 74
Number of clients: 29
Total images shot: 88,876
Total images delivered: 3,552
Number of hard drives bought: 15
Biggest project: The new season for English National Ballet.
Number of parking tickets: 2
Number of nieces: 1 (+1 since last year).

It gives me great pleasure in telling you that 2025 has been my biggest year yet! I had the privilege of working with some amazing clients, world class talent, and incredibly high profile individuals, including HRH Princess Anne, Oscar Winning Director Danny Boyle, and ***REDACTED*** (can’t show you until Wrapped 2026!).

There have been so many highlights, but here’s a few that leap to mind:

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Photographing the musicians in their natural enviornments for the 2025/26 Season. We shot over three days in some amazing locations, including a bakery, a 5-a-side pitch, and a kebab shop. Yes. A kebab shop.

BBC TWO’s MURDER 24/7: One of the nicest things as a photographer is seeing you work ‘out in the wild’ - and seeing the main banner image for BBC Two’s ‘Murder 24/7’ as the homepage on BBC iPlayer was very surreal!

ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET: Something I’ve wanted to shoot my whole career - the key art for the 2025 / 26 Season at English National Ballet. Pinch me!

Below, I’ve drawn out some of my favourite assignments for each month, alongside some behind the scenes snaps, and some selfies(!). Apart from December - as everything I’ve shot in December is nowhere near ready to go!

Have a wonderful Christmas break, wherever you are, and thank you for an amazing year.

Drew x

January
BBC Philharmonic 25/26 Season
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean backstage on the final night of her tour ‘Peacock’
EatsByWill, shot for Djurens Rätt magazine

July
The Reopening of Station Hall, at the National Railway Museum, Campaign

August
The most important photograph: my new passport photo, shot by my Studio Manager, Ophelia. No pressure.
I also spent the day in the studio, testing with Becca Anderton and Sean McCrossan.

More work went into this than I care to admit.

September
English National Ballet 25/26 Season
‘From Manchester to the World’ Campaign, shot for the University of Manchester

October
I took Danny Boyle’s portrait for the Science & Industry Museum, as well as the campaign images for the reopening of The Power Hall, which has just undergone a massive multi million pound restoration.

November
As we move into the final portion of the year, I can share less and less as the work hasn’t actually gone live yet… sorry!
So here’s some on set snaps, behind the scenes, and a few selfies!

December
The year drawing to a close. Will it ever be light at 3pm ever again!
As I’m typing this on the 3rd December, I don’t really have anything to show you… so here’s a snap I took on my Hasselblad XPAN II, on film, earlier this year.
Centre, is the Matterhorn, in the Alps.

Thank you again to my amazing clients for such a bumper year. It wasn’t until I put this together that I realised just how much work I’d done!!

Have a wonderful break x

Drew Forsyth

Drew Forsyth is an Award Winning Portrait Photographer & Director, working for commercial and advertising clients in the UK and around the world.

https://drewforsyth.com
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