Video and photographs

 of your graduation ceremony

To avoid the queues we would strongly recommend that you book your studio session in advance

 

Location

Tempest Photography will be located on the first floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, Sheffield Street.

Photography Opening Hours 

Photography for the December 2024 cohort will be available during the following opening hours:

  • Monday 16 December - 11am to 8pm
  • Tuesday 17 December - 7.30am to 8.30pm
  • Wednesday 18 December - 7.30am to 8.30pm
  • Thursday 19 December - 8am to 5pm

Attending a photography session

Tempest Photography sessions are not available to book in advance. 

Graduates can simply turn up to the photography studios on the day. 

All queries relating to graduation photography undertaken by Tempest on the day, should be directed to Tempest Photography customer services:

Contact email: graduations@htempest.co.uk

Contact telephone: 01736751555

Types of photography studio sessions

Tempest will be operating two varieties of studio service:

  • The standard Classic Studio
  • The high-end Studio b3 which affords customers a more indulgent and bespoke studio experience complete with an exclusive range of products. There is no obligation to place an order when you attend any studio session.

Photography orders

There is no need to pre-order your photographs.

Instant proofs will be given to you in the studio when your photographs are taken, enabling you to peruse them at your leisure.

You can then place your order either on the day at the sales desk or afterwards via the Tempest Photography website or by post / telephone. 

For full details of the products available, please see the Tempest Photography website 

Graduation Photography Support Fund

If you are experiencing financial hardship, you may be interested in exploring the Graduation Photography Support Fund (GPSF) which is managed and monitored independently by the LSESU Advice Service. The GPSF could help with the cost of graduation photography. Please visit the LSESU GPSF webpage for full information about the fund, eligibility criteria, and how to apply:

https://www.lsesu.com/support/funding/graduation/

As the fund is managed by the LSESU, should you have any queries relating to the fund, please contact the LSESU directly. 

Degree certificate framing

Tempest Photography also offers a degree certificate framing service on the day and the LSE degree certificate folder.

On-stage graduation ceremony photograph

As well as studio photographs, Tempest Photography will also capture the moment you are presented to the Vice Chancellor by your department during the ceremony. 

These on-stage graduation ceremony photographs will be available for you to download completely free of charge from the Tempest Events website.

Please allow up to seven days after the ceremony for the on-stage photographs to become available.

Roaming photography

Tempest employ a roaming photographer who will be on campus throughout the ceremonies taking pictures that will be used for publicitiy material.

Unfortunately, we are not able to provide access to these photographs.

Lots of graduands, family and friends take pictures on the day so please expect to appear in a few shots. 

Filming

An official recording of your ceremony is available on Digital download which includes full coverage.

Also available are Personalised Clips of individual graduates on stage.  

To order, please use one of the following options:

You can also purchase from the sales stand located in the Student Services Centre. The sales stand will be open throughout the ceremony days as follows:

  • Monday 16 December - 11am to 8pm
  • Tuesday 17 December - 7.30am to 8.30pm
  • Wednesday 18 December - 7.30am to 8.30pm
  • Thursday 19 December - 8am to 5pm

If you have any queries about filming and/or media, please email enquiries@mygraduationfilm.com 

Disclaimer: 

Please note that each graduation ceremony is filmed by My Graduation Film Service, who provide live streaming, individual clips for you to share with family and friends and other products. If you decide to use the My Graduation Film Service your personal details will be held by My Graduation Film on their systems and may be passed to other third parties companies as required by My Graduation Film in order to deliver the service. We strongly suggest you read My Graduation Film’s privacy policy, here: https://www.mygraduationfilm.com/privacy-policy/ and their terms and conditions here: https://www.mygraduationfilm.com/terms-of-use/...before signing up to ensure that you are content to do so.  

For the avoidance of doubt, LSE accepts no responsibility or liability for any damage caused to you, your property (computer based or otherwise), software or data caused as a result of using this service. However, if  at any point after signing up, you find any unwelcome or strange activity occurring in your email account, or notice any suspected unauthorised usage of your data that you have provided to My Graduation Film, then please report this immediately to glpd.info.rights@lse.ac.uk