Press, Awards & Speaking
BusinessPortraits.ca holds four international photography awards, has had its work featured in seven major Canadian and international outlets, and has lectured and presented across six post-secondary institutions and broadcasters. The studio has operated since 2017 under head photographer Koby Sirkovich.
Since 2017.
The record: four international awards, work featured in national business media, and lectures at post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom and Canada.
International photography awards
BusinessPortraits.ca holds four international photography awards from juried competitions in Europe and the United States. They are the Federation of European Photographers Bronze, the D.C. FotoWeek International Award of Excellence, W Magazine's "The Shot" Most Voted, and Artist Forum New York's AF-IPC Second Place.
The Federation of European Photographers is a pan-European professional body, and its Bronze distinction is awarded on a juried portfolio review. The D.C. FotoWeek International Award of Excellence comes from the Washington festival's international competition, which draws entries from photographers worldwide.
W Magazine's "The Shot" Most Voted is a reader-voted editorial award from the magazine's photography feature. Artist Forum New York's AF-IPC Second Place is a juried placement from a New York competition. Each of the four is judged by an international jury or audience on the craft of the portrait itself.
For a firm choosing a corporate photographer, the awards are a signal of consistency: the same eye that placed in these competitions sets the standard for a routine team headshot day.
Where our work has been featured
BusinessPortraits.ca's photography has been featured in seven major Canadian and international outlets: Forbes, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, the Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.
Where has the head photographer spoken?
Head photographer Koby Sirkovich has lectured and presented across six post-secondary institutions and broadcasters: the University of Oxford, the University of Toronto, York University, Humber College, Toronto Metropolitan University, and CBC Radio Canada. Topics include corporate portrait photography, studio lighting, and the operational discipline of large-team headshot rollouts.
The engagements span the United Kingdom and Canada, and cover both the craft of the portrait and the logistics of photographing a full team on a corporate schedule. Institutions invite the studio to teach the same process it runs for clients: how to light a consistent portrait, and how to move a large group through a session without disrupting the workday.
The CBC Radio Canada appearance is a broadcast interview with BusinessPortraits.ca's head photographer on what makes a strong professional headshot. The interview is embedded below.
BusinessPortraits.ca's head photographer is available for commentary on corporate photography and professional headshots. Contact the studio.
Who is behind BusinessPortraits.ca?
BusinessPortraits.ca is a corporate photography studio operating across the Greater Toronto Area since 2017. Its head photographer is Koby Sirkovich, who leads creative direction, lighting, and the sessions themselves, with over two decades of professional photography experience.
Koby Sirkovich
The operations side of the studio handles scheduling, preparation, retouching, and delivery, so each engagement fits the corporate workday. That split, one photographer setting the visual standard and a dedicated operation running the logistics, is how the studio holds quality consistent from a single executive portrait to a multi-day company rollout.
Koby Sirkovich is a Humber College alumnus and has lectured at post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom and Canada, and his studio work holds the four international awards named above. BusinessPortraits.ca photographs executives, teams, and corporate events for firms across law, financial services, technology, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. The awards, the featured work, and the teaching are the standard behind every session the company delivers.
What does the recognition mean for your firm?
Recognition is a proxy for consistency. Awards judged by international juries, portraits featured in national outlets, and a teaching record at universities point to one thing: a standard that repeats across every session, from the first frame to the thousandth.
The credentials on this page belong to the studio you book, not a separate portfolio.
The same team runs your firm's session. Each client's lighting and backdrop configuration stays on file, so every later frame matches.
For a corporate client, that consistency is the practical value. The portrait of a new hire six months from now matches the leadership photos taken today, because the same standard and setup produce every image. BusinessPortraits.ca keeps each client's lighting and backdrop configuration on file, so later hires and staff in other cities are photographed to match.
The credentials on this page belong to the studio you book, not a separate portfolio. The same team runs your firm's session.
What has BusinessPortraits.ca been recognized for?
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A mix. Some are photo credits, where a portrait BusinessPortraits.ca made ran with an outlet's story; some are editorial the studio was commissioned to shoot for the publication; and some are coverage of the photographer.
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All four are international. They come from juried competitions in Europe and the United States: the Federation of European Photographers, the D.C. FotoWeek International festival, W Magazine's "The Shot," and Artist Forum New York. International juries judge the portfolio on craft, which is the standard the studio applies to routine corporate sessions.
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The CBC Radio Canada interview with BusinessPortraits.ca's head photographer is embedded in the speaking section on this page. It is a broadcast conversation about what makes a strong professional headshot, and it is also available on SoundCloud.
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Koby Sirkovich is the head photographer at BusinessPortraits.ca and has led the studio since 2017, with over two decades of professional experience. He is a Humber College alumnus and has lectured at post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom and Canada. He leads creative direction, lighting, and the sessions.
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Yes. BusinessPortraits.ca photographs executives, teams, and corporate events across the Greater Toronto Area, in-studio or on-location at your office. Request a quote with your team size and timing, or book a session directly. The studio behind the awards and the featured work runs every booking.
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Yes. The corporate headshot portfolio and the corporate event gallery show recent sessions across verticals, and the awards and featured portraits on this page come from the same body of work. Both galleries are linked in the site navigation, and a quote request can include relevant examples for your industry.
Book the same team
The studio behind the awards, the featured work, and the teaching runs every booking, in-studio or at your office across the Greater Toronto Area.