Bob Baggett Photography

Bob Baggett Photography has been shooting portraits and handling photo restoration work in Tampa since 1980, which puts the business among the longer-running independent photography studios in the city. The studio keeps regular weekday hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the client list built up over four decades includes the City of Tampa, Outback Steakhouse, and the Tampa Bay Business Journal, along with a stint on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. That range, from municipal government to national restaurant chains to network television, says something about how long the studio has been a known name in Tampa’s business community.

Executive headshots make up a large share of the current business, whether that’s a single portrait for a professional profile or a full corporate team photographed on location at an office. Baggett’s team travels to the client rather than requiring everyone to show up at a studio, which simplifies scheduling for companies trying to get a dozen or more employees photographed without pulling the whole office out for a half day. That on-location model is part of why the studio’s client list skews corporate, since it removes the biggest scheduling obstacle a busy office has to booking group photos in the first place.

The other major piece of the business is photo restoration, repairing torn, faded, or water-damaged family photographs and returning them close to their original condition. That skill set connects directly to the studio’s role as the official partner for the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection, a set of more than 20,000 historic Tampa Bay images from the 1890s through the 1960s held by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library. Baggett’s studio sells prints from that collection, giving Tampa residents and history buffs a way to buy restored copies of images documenting the city’s early streetcars, cigar factories, and downtown storefronts, work that requires the same restoration expertise the studio applies to a family’s own damaged photographs.

The studio serves clients across Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Riverview, and New Tampa, but its roots stay firmly in the original South Tampa neighborhood where it has operated for most of its history. For anyone in Tampa with a damaged family photo tucked in a drawer, or a company that needs a batch of headshots handled by someone who has been doing this work since before most of the city’s current office towers existed, Bob Baggett Photography is a straightforward, long-established option, and its pricing sits in the moderate range rather than at the high end of the local portrait market. Appointments can be booked directly through the studio’s website or by calling during weekday business hours.