David Simm Photography

David Simm Photography has been a leader in the professional photography industry for over five decades, specializing in upscale wedding photography, family portraits, and corporate imaging. However, due to recent global conditions, the focus of the business has shifted towards portraiture, family groups, corporate headshots, executive portraits, and professional consultations, tutorials, and teaching seminars for the photography profession. David Simm is known for his exceptional skills and has photographed the weddings and portraits of professional photographers and their families on both sides of the Atlantic.

Based in Glenview, David Simm Photography serves the North Shore and all of Chicagoland. If you're looking for a superb heirloom wall portrait, a simple family group, special event, child studies, or executive portraits, then David Simm is your go-to photographer. With his expertise and experience, he can provide you with images that will bring you joy for years to come and eventually become a family heirloom.

Business Portraits and Corporate Headshots

David Simm Photography offers business portrait photography services to business executives and professionals in various industries, including insurance, legal, education, finance, manufacturing, medical, and real estate. The three main categories of business portraits include:

• Boardroom & Institutional Portraits: These portraits commemorate the achievements of a company founder and acknowledge their legacy in the Foyer or boardroom. They highlight the driving force that has sustained the business or corporation through subsequent generations.
• Executive Portraits: David Simm Photography understands the value of executives' time and plans and sets up portrait sessions quickly and efficiently. The executive can enter, be captured digitally to the highest aesthetic and technical standards, and get back to running the business as soon as possible.
• Headshots: As the staple of the corporate world, headshots must stand out from the mediocre mugshots that proliferate on LinkedIn. David Simm offers headshot photography services that create an impressive impression in less than 15 seconds.

Family Portraits in a Post-Covid Environment

David Simm is renowned for his portraiture and family groups, having decades of experience working in clients' personal spaces, either at their home, garden, or even a public park or forest preserve. He is well-equipped and experienced in making people and pets comfortable in front of the camera, providing you with family portraits that will bring you joy for years to come.

Specializing in wall portraits from 20" x 16" through 40" x 30", as well as offering a range of table top sizes, David Simm is a trained classical portraitist and versatile enough to capture candid moments and avant-garde portrayals for those who prefer less formal creations. Session fees range from as little as $250.00 within a 20-mile radius of Glenview. Sessions may be families, extended families, children, pets, individuals, and groups.

Multi-Cultural Weddings

David Simm has captured weddings in almost every ethnicity, religion, culture, and religious denomination for over five decades. His dynamic approach to wedding photography and his personable way with families in every community have consistently appealed to couples from around the globe. As one of the world's first photographers to cross cultural boundaries, David Simm is a pioneer in the photography industry. He applies the same pioneering spirit to accepting digital capture at a time that others in the industry shied away from the learning curve.