Taryn Gelder is a photographer with a background in brand, marketing, and communications, bringing more than 25 years of experience across agencies, media, and client-side environments in Australia and Internationally.
Before focusing on photography, her career spanned organisations including Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Nine Entertainment, Southern Cross Austereo, Disney, Gap and Nike, as well as founder-led businesses in London and Perth. She worked in environments where imagery wasn’t created in isolation, but commissioned, assessed, and used across campaigns, platforms, and broader brand systems.
That experience shapes how she approaches photography today.
Rather than focusing solely on how an image looks, Taryn considers how it will be perceived, where it will be used, and how it contributes to credibility, positioning, and trust over time. Whether creating headshots, portraits, or brand-led imagery, the focus is on photographs that feel natural and human, while still working hard in real business contexts.
Now based in Perth, Taryn works with professionals, founders, and teams who need imagery that feels considered, confident, and appropriate to who they are and what they do. Her process is clear, collaborative, and efficient, shaped by years of working under pressure, meeting deadlines, and delivering work that needs to perform.
Outside of work, Taryn is raising a family and building businesses that value clarity, creativity, and sustainability over noise or burnout. The same principles guide how she works with clients.
“Taryn has such a fast way of thinking and developing a strategy or idea. And the ability to truly understand people, their businesses & their customers, incredibly quickly. Very impressive. ”
— Isabelle Langlois, The Perfume Stylist.
Experience.
Amazing agencies, amazing clients, brilliant teams.
“Taryn is great at helping you clarify the direction you need to go in & makes the task feel doable with her wealth of experience. We worked with Taryn to ensure our brand strung together from the outset, including our range photography & headshots, to ensure we told a consistent visual story with our brand. Taryn was great from start to finish & is someone I'd absolutely recommend.”
- Annabella Fasano-Smith, Ilk Perfume
“Taryn is one of the best, her positivity & desire to go the extra mile on everything she does was an inspiration. Strategic awareness and creative instinct were also spot on and I would jump at the chance to work with her again.”
- Paul Cope, Saatchi & Saatchi X
“Taryn quickly understood me, my ambition & my story with extraordinary skill. She worked with my history to develop my product, my story and visual content & imagery. One that represents me perfectly, and one that I am able to execute quite simply. I can’t find the words to describe her & her skills, but I am so glad I found her.”
- Lusi, Casa Malavolta
“Having previously worked with Taryn on an award winning campaign, I was keen to do so again. Her passion & ideas are a real support to me & show me different ways to look at options & what to consider. Her strategies are cleverly thought out rather than pushy sales tactics. Her ideas help me develop long term brand loyalty. Her creativity & entrepreneurial spirit are always present, she considers what works for a startup & how to change the strategy later on as the brand grows. And I love that Taryn has the same passion for a startup as she does for a huge brand campaign.”
- Keren McKean, SAB Miller & Microlabs