Yūki Nagasato Headshot and Portrait Session

It was our great pleasure to photograph athlete Yūki Nagasato in late January 2023 for her headshot/branding session.

Yūki has a distinguished soccer career, and she currently plays for the Chicago Red Stars (#7 / forward). She’s also a multitalented artist, drummer, and creator, with sections for each on her website!

In addition to the many skills Yūki already has, she’s expanding into film and television work and wanted some new professional images for her career and personal brand.

We photographed a few different looks and backgrounds in our session in order to give Yūki a range of options. We began with a series of portraits on a clean white background. These portraits on white make for versatile calling cards, useful in any number of situations, from performance to branding.

We moved on to a neutral fashion gray background for our three-quarter photographs, which show more of Yūki’s height and stature. We photographed both the white and gray backgrounds with a big, soft light.

Finally, we created a hard light photograph on a black background, using five lights to emphasize Yūki’s athleticism.

It was a considerable honor to photograph Yūki Nagasato. I can’t wait to see her on television and film, and on the soccer field!

Three selections from Yūki Nagasato’s headshot and branding session, photographed on gray, white, and black.

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Steven Townshend is a fine art/portrait photographer and writer with a background in theatre, written narrative, and award-winning game design. As a young artist, Steven toured the US and Canada performing in Shakespeare companies while journaling their moments on paper and film. In his transition from stage to page, Steven continued to work as a theatre photographer, capturing dramatic scenes while incorporating elements of costume, makeup, and theatrical lighting in his work. Drawn to stories set in other times and places, Steven creates works through which fellow dreamers and time travelers might examine their own humanity or find familiar comfort in the reflections of the people and places of a distant era.