Photography

Executive Portraits

Founders, executives, and leaders whose ambition has outgrown their image.

Selected Galleries

Lookbooks, campaigns, the shoots with a concept.

Teams & C-Suite

Portraits that make a team page look like real people.

One Image.

You don't need 50 options. You need a single definitive image.

My Approach

When to direct, when to step back, when to let the moment breathe.

For Founders & Ex-Execs

The brand, website, and presence that define your next move.

Get Your Time Back

Where AI actually earns its keep, and where it just gets in the way.

Fractional Creative Director

A creative team you don't have to hire. On when you need me, off when you don't.

Training & Fundamentals

Get your team genuinely comfortable with AI, not just nervous about it.

My Approach

My approach to photography is the same as my approach to life.

Studio Notes

Essays, case studies, and the occasional well-earned rant.

Recent Projects

Brand builds, AI tools, art shows. The range is the point.

Selected Galleries

The full body of work, sorted so you can actually find things.

Contact Me

Get in touch and tell me what you're building.

Case Study

A Face That Stays

How a single portrait reframed a founder’s public story.

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Make Your Next Move Look As Big As Your Last One.

For founders and ex-executives starting their own thing. I build the brand, the website, and the presence that make people take you as seriously as your old title did.

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The Imbalance

You spent years making another company successful. Their reputation, their relationships, their results.

You helped build their name, not your own.

Now you've left your seat, and the title didn't come with you. On your own, you're just "a consultant."

Nobody tells you the hardest part of the next chapter is building a whole new identity from scratch.

I'll build a foundation you can stand on.

From your story and your vision to the brand, the website, and the systems that run underneath it.

You spent years making another company successful. Their reputation, their relationships, their results.

You helped build their name, not your own.

Now you've left your seat, and the title didn't come with you. On your own, you're just "a consultant."

Nobody tells you the hardest part of the next chapter is building a whole new identity from scratch.

I'll build a foundation you can stand on.

From your story and your vision to the brand, the website, and the systems that run underneath it.

You spent years making another company successful. Their reputation, their relationships, their results.

You helped build their name, not your own.

Now you've left your seat, and the title didn't come with you. On your own, you're just "a consultant."

Nobody tells you the hardest part of the next chapter is building a whole new identity from scratch.

I'll build a foundation you can stand on.

From your story and your vision to the brand, the website, and the systems that run underneath it.

Mansi Goel

I didn’t realize how much I was downplaying my own idea until you reflected it back to me...bigger, bolder and more important than I could see on my own.

I knew I had a light…but your design gave it shape. I believe in the work, now more than ever and my ability to lead it.

Former Google Executive

Founder, Besharam Baat

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

From the idea you can’t stop thinking about to a thing that’s real in the world.

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How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

From the idea you can’t stop thinking about to a thing that’s real in the world.

Book a Free Intro Call

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

From the idea you can’t stop thinking about to a thing that’s real in the world.

Book a Free Intro Call

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

From the idea you can’t stop thinking about to a thing that’s real in the world.

Book a Free Intro Call

Let's Build

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

We get crystal clear on who you are, where you're at and what you want your future to look like. We pull what's in your head onto the page: your story, your positioning, what sets you apart. You walk away with clarity most people never reach, and everything we build next stands on it.

You Walk Away With

Your Positioning

Your Story

Your Why

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

You Walk Away With

Your Positioning

Your Story

Your Why

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

You Walk Away With

Your Positioning

Your Story

Your Why

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

We give it a look and a voice people remember. Now it becomes something people can feel. The look, the voice, the whole experience, built so anyone who lands on it gets that instant whoa. This is the part you're too close to see for yourself.

You Walk Away With

Visual Identity

Brand Voice

Your Audience

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

You Walk Away With

Visual Identity

Brand Voice

Your Audience

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

You Walk Away With

Visual Identity

Brand Voice

Your Audience

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

We build the brand and website with an optional AI that sits underneath it. Your vision needs a home and an engine. I build the website and the AI systems behind it, trained on your voice and how you work, so the whole thing runs without you holding it together.

You Walk Away With

Your Website (or App)

The Brand Systems

Your AI Engine

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

You Walk Away With

Your Website (or App)

The Brand Systems

Your AI Engine

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

You Walk Away With

Your Website (or App)

The Brand Systems

Your AI Engine

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

I stay on, full or part-time to help you see your vision through. The real work starts after launch. I stay on as your creative and AI partner, sharpening what works and building what's next, pushing your presence somewhere you couldn't reach alone. Not a beginner you're training. A seasoned hand in your corner for the long run.

How I Stay On

A Creative + AI Partner

Ongoing Builds

Always Improving

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

How I Stay On

A Creative + AI Partner

Ongoing Builds

Always Improving

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

How I Stay On

A Creative + AI Partner

Ongoing Builds

Always Improving

I've made a career of seeing people more clearly than they see themselves.

For over a decade my work has lived where image meets identity: photographing leaders on one side, building brand, design, and strategy on the other.

A few years ago I rebuilt my studio around AI, which freed me to do more of what I love about my work. Connecting with people on a deeper level and helping founders venture off on their own.

I find the biggest, clearest version of what you and what you're building, then design the brand, the site, and the systems behind it.

BRIAN DESIMONE

Photographer, Creative Director & AI Builder.

It's me!

Already running your thing? You might want a creative director in your corner instead.

Fractional Creative Direction

Behind the scenes of a commercial lifestyle shoot, showing Brian DeSimone directing talent and reviewing images on a tethered monitor. Production workflow Bay Area.

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About

Brian DeSimone is an Oakland-based portrait photographer serving San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area.

Specializing in executive headshots, founder portraits, corporate team photography, and editorial brand campaigns for startups, leaders, and creative businesses.

❤️

Studio

Home

Executive & Corporate

Editorial & Brand

One Image.

Contact

Explore

My Approach

The Journal

Gallery

Socials

Google Reviews

Yelp Reviews

Instagram

Threads

About

Brian DeSimone is an Oakland-based portrait photographer serving San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area.

Specializing in executive headshots, founder portraits, corporate team photography, and editorial brand campaigns for startups, leaders, and creative businesses.

❤️

Studio

Home

Executive & Corporate

Editorial & Brand

One Image.

Contact

Explore

My Approach

The Journal

Gallery

Socials

Google Reviews

Yelp Reviews

Instagram

Threads

About

Brian DeSimone is an Oakland-based portrait photographer serving San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area.

Specializing in executive headshots, founder portraits, corporate team photography, and editorial brand campaigns for startups, leaders, and creative businesses.

❤️

Studio

Home

Executive & Corporate

Editorial & Brand

One Image.

Contact

Explore

My Approach

The Journal

Gallery

Socials

Google Reviews

Yelp Reviews

Instagram

Threads

Make Your Next Move Look As Big As Your Last One.

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

How it Works

First We Find it. Then We Built it.

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

You Walk Away With

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

You Walk Away With

Foundation

Who Are You, Now That the Title's Gone?

You Walk Away With

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

You Walk Away With

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

You Walk Away With

Brand

What Does the New You Look Like?

You Walk Away With

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

You Walk Away With

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

You Walk Away With

Platform

Where Does All of This Actually Live?

You Walk Away With

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

How I Stay On

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

How I Stay On

Partnership

What Happens After Launch?

How I Stay On

I've made a career of seeing people more clearly than they see themselves.

Ready?Let's Talk.

Ready?Let's Talk.

Ready?Let's Talk.

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Studio

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