This gallery brings together portraits that have received recognition through professional awards and accreditation over the years.
Some were made recently.
Others come from much earlier in my career.
During COVID, I returned to a number of photographs that had stayed with me and began entering them for judging.
Many went on to receive awards.
What interests me now is looking back at the photographs themselves.
Different people.
Different stages of my work.
Different reasons for making them.
But many of the things I still care about are already there — light, expression, gesture, composition and the person in front of the camera.
Professional judging also became a way of testing my work.
It made me look harder.
Refine what I was doing.
And understand where a photograph succeeded and where it did not.
Over the years, that process led to 149 portrait awards and my international Master accreditation in Portrait Photography from The Portrait Masters.
The awards belong to particular photographs.
What I learned from making them came back into the studio.
The work continued.
JOHANNESBURG PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER
One Moment. One Portrait. Forever
© 2005–2026 Bridget Corke Photography
Blairgowrie · Johannesburg · South Africa
International Master's in Portrait Photography
One of only two in Africa.