About Us

Our story so far.....

Every great story starts somewhere. Ours began with a bicycle, a trailer full of camera equipment and a young photographer called Horace Tempest.

Back in the 1930s, Horace travelled from school to school around Nottingham, capturing photographs and quietly laying the foundations for what would become Tempest Photography.

In 1942, while also serving as a firefighter during the war, Horace officially registered the business. What started as one man's passion for photography would go on to become a family business spanning generations.

More than 80 years later, a lot has changed. We've grown from those early days in Nottingham to become one of the UK's leading photography companies, capturing everything from school portraits and graduations to military occasions and memories made at sea.

But some things haven't changed.

We're still a family-run business, still passionate about photography, and still committed to capturing the moments that matter.