Austin · Texas · National assignment
Austin Commercial Portrait Photographer.
Ryan Dunbar. Commercial and editorial portraits for brands, agencies, and publications. 21 years behind the camera, photographed for Dove, The Guardian, HarperCollins, Hello!, and Bench.
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Commercial portrait photographer in Austin, Texas.
Ryan Dunbar photographs commercial and editorial portraits for brands, agencies, and publications. 21 years behind the camera, built across three countries and now run out of Austin.
Advertising campaigns, editorial features, fashion and lookbook work, executive portraits, and professional headshots at a commercial standard. Commissioned by art directors, brand teams, founders, and editors who need a portrait built for print, press, and campaign use. Austin based, working across Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and nationally.
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The work
Commercial, editorial, and brand work.
Three lanes of portrait work, shot to one standard. Advertising and brand campaigns, commissioned editorial features, and executive portraits for the people who run companies.
Commercial
Campaigns & brand work.
Advertising, brand, fashion, and lookbook portraits for retail and direct-to-consumer brands. Single-look commissions through multi-day campaigns, shot on location or in studio across the United States, Canada, and Asia.
Editorial
Publication features.
Commissioned editorial portraits and author portraits for magazines and publishing imprints. Portrait features shot on location or in studio and delivered to publication spec, on an editor's timeline.
Portraits
Executive & brand.
Brand and executive portraits for founders, leadership teams, and marketing departments across technology, finance, fashion, and hospitality. Commissioned for annual reports, leadership pages, press, and brand sites.
How the work runs
On location, across Texas.
A commercial portrait studio built to travel. Direct work with agencies, brand teams, founders, and editors, with the full kit brought to the location anywhere across Austin and the Texas triangle.
Who I work with.
Agencies, brand teams, and in-house marketing departments, plus founders, executives, and editors commissioning directly. One photographer on every job, from a single portrait to a multi-look campaign.
On location or in studio.
On-location production across Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, with studio work when the brief calls for it. The full lighting and grip kit travels, so the result holds at any location.
How a commission runs.
A booked day or a campaign, directed on the schedule the shoot allows. Hard-edited and retouched to a natural finish, delivered for print, press, web, and social, ready to run.
Commercial · Editorial · Brand
Recent commercial and editorial portrait work.
Commercial portrait photography for Dove and Bench. Editorial portrait features for The Guardian and Hello! Magazine. Commissioned author portraits for HarperCollins, including Niall Harbison.
Fashion and lookbook campaigns for retail and direct-to-consumer brands across the United States, Canada, and Asia. Brand and executive portrait work for founders, leadership teams, and marketing departments. Commissioned out of Austin, with on-location production wherever the assignment runs.
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Selected portfolio
A wider look at the work.
Commercial, editorial, fashion, and portrait commissions across 21 years and three countries. Advertising and brand campaigns, editorial features, lookbook and fashion work, and executive portraits.
Executive & brand portraits
Professional headshots, at a commercial standard.
Executive portraits and professional headshots in Austin for founders, leadership teams, and public-facing professionals. The same lighting and direction behind the brand and editorial work, applied to the single frame that represents a person or a company.
Austin headshot photographer work for press kits, board profiles, speaker bios, annual reports, and brand sites. Shot on location or in studio, retouched to a natural finish, delivered to publication spec.
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About
21 years behind the camera.
Ryan Dunbar is a commercial and editorial portrait photographer based in Austin, Texas. 21 years behind the camera, working with creative teams across the United States, Canada, and Asia.
Photography began in 2005. The first studio opened in Winnipeg and ran fifteen years across the Canadian commercial market. Austin became home base in 2025. Same work, new market.
Local commissions and national assignments run the same way. Self-represented and currently booking commissioned advertising, editorial, brand, and fashion work.
info@ryandunbarphotography.comProductized commission
Brand days.
A single booked day for founders and brand teams who need a library of commercial portraits from one session. Direction, lighting, and a hard-edited delivery built for web, social, press, and campaign use.
More on the work
Commercial portrait photography across Texas.
Austin commercial photographer.
Commercial and editorial portrait photography based in Austin. Campaign, brand, fashion, and editorial portraits for agencies, brand teams, and direct clients. Direct commissions and agency assignments, single portraits through multi-look campaigns, priced on creative fee plus usage. 21 years behind the camera, working across Austin and the Texas triangle. Start a project.
Editorial photographer.
Editorial portrait features and commissioned author portraits for magazines and publishing imprints. Shot to publication spec on location or in studio, on an editor's timeline. Brand and executive portraits run alongside the editorial work for founders and leadership teams.
Dallas, Houston & San Antonio.
Commercial portrait work across the Texas triangle. On-location production in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio for brand campaigns, executive portraits, and editorial assignments. Travel and on-location production are part of how the work runs, with the full kit brought to the location.
Executive portraits & headshots.
Professional headshots and executive portraits in Austin at a commercial standard. For press kits, board profiles, speaker bios, annual reports, and brand sites. The commercial portrait approach applied to the single frame that represents a leader or a company.
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Commissioned portraits for advertising, editorial, and brand campaigns. Working directly with art directors, brand teams, and editors across Austin, Texas, and nationally.
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