Bertram Park was a highly regarded establishment photographer whose body of work encompassed both society portraits, still life, and nudes. He exhibited as part of the European avant-garde movement in the first International Salon of the Photographic Nude which took place in Paris in 1933.

Having started in the family firm, manufacturers of artist's materials, Park developed an interest in photography and became a professional portraitist. He was a founder member of the London Salon of Photography in 1910. Park set up studios on Dover Street, London with Marcus Adams and his wife Yvonne Gregory in 1919. He was enormously successful, being obliged to have up to five sittings a day to satisfy the demand for his work. He photographed the British Royal Family, and his reputation was such that various European crowned heads would come annually to his studio to be photographed. His stylish and beautifully composed portrait studies more often relied on dramatic lighting than on elaborate backgrounds. Bertram Park was one of the most successful society photographers of the day.