Photography intern

Location: London

Ready to build your photography experience? Help prepare watches for shoots and capture high-quality product images.
Subdial is the trading platform for people who love watches. We make discovering watches exciting and trading them easy. We combine technology and our industry-leading market data with a focus on collectability and a personal service for collectors. We’re bringing watch collecting into the 21st century, putting passion back into the collector experience.

The role
We’re hiring a Photography Intern to join our in-house team and help create the imagery behind every Subdial listing. Working alongside our Senior Photographer, you’ll learn how we shoot our core watch photography and condition videos, and play a key part in getting every watch camera-ready and live — beautifully, and on deadline. It’s an in-person role for someone with a sharp eye and high standards who’s excited to learn. This is a six-month fixed contract with a view to a full-time role beyond, based full-time at the Clubhouse in Farringdon, London.

What you'll do

• Prepare items for shooting. Assist with getting the daily continuous-listing watches, boxes and papers ready.
• Follow the studio setups and the watch-handling rules.
• Shoot watch e-commerce images. Learn how we shoot our core photography and execute to hit weekly production deadlines for Subdial’s listings.
• Shoot condition videos. Make sure every watch that goes live has a beautiful condition video accompanying it, available to prospective buyers.
• Liaise between Photography and Workshop. Work with our watchmakers' workshop to prepare watches and schedule them for shooting every morning.
• Lifestyle photography support. Help with lifestyle and social shoots, covering setup, styling and assisting on set.
• Keep our records in order. Upkeep of equipment inventory, photography records and digital asset management.

Who you are

• High aesthetic standards — you want every photo that goes live to look 10/10.
• Detail-oriented — you catch the small things and can be fully trusted as the quality-control point for every image we produce.
• Gets stuck in — sleeves rolled up, eager to learn, no job too small.
• Process-minded — you think about how to turn activities into processes that can be developed and scaled over time, efficiently and effectively.
• Great within a team — our culture matters deeply to us, and we want people who add to the sense of team we’ve built

Details

• Six-month fixed contract, with a view to a full-time role beyond.
• Full-time, in person at the Subdial Clubhouse, Farringdon, London.
• You’ll need a portfolio that shows product or still-life work, a good eye for detail and consistency, working knowledge of Lightroom and/or Photoshop and careful handling of high-value items
• Nice to have skills: tethered shooting (Capture One), studio lighting, video, an interest in watches, a recently finished photography degree or course and experience in a professional photography role.
• You must have the right to work in the UK.

Perks of working at Subdial

• The Subdial Clubhouse. Beautiful offices in the heart of Farringdon, with access to communal spaces for lunches and socials.
• Free lunches. We put in a weekly Ocado order so there’s always lunch in the office.
• Regular socials. Quarterly big socials and smaller monthly social events.
• Trust in your role. We’re a small team moving at pace, and we trust everyone to manage their own area with autonomy and responsibility.
  

To apply, please submit a portfolio plus a short note (up to 200 words) on interest in watches and/or e-comm photography.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.