PHOTOGRAPHY
Twenty-one years and over a thousand weddings give context for the kind of photographer you’ll receive when you commission me to photograph your one special day. I've photographed weddings the length and breadth of the UK, plus overseas, and the approach hasn't changed much because it doesn't need to: I'm there to show you your day, not choreograph it.
My work is documentary in nature. That means I'm watching, waiting, moving, reading a room rather than directing one. The fleeting glance between a father and daughter before the doors open to a congregation, the laughter that breaks out mid-vow when nerves get the better of someone, and knowing looks during speeches. Those are the moments that matter, and my job is to be in the right place when they do.
Though my work is reportage in nature, if requested, I’ll gather the family together at some point during the day, after all, nobody wants to explain to their grandmother why she's not in a single photograph, but I keep that part brief and unpretentious, because the documentary work is where the real story lives. Let me show you your day.
VIDEOGRAPHY
I'd been photographing weddings for well over a decade before I added film to my offerings, and the delay was reasonably deliberate on my part. Every weekend, I watched video crews arrive with cranes, stabiliser rigs and enough tripod equipment to block the view of an entire church congregation trying to watch a couple exchange their vows.
Some couples want that kind of production, and there's nothing wrong with it, but it sat awkwardly alongside what I was being hired to do: photograph a wedding day honestly and authentically, with as little fuss as possible.
So when I started making films, I made them the way I make photographs; documentary in character, not the kind of hour-long video that gets watched once and then lives on a hard drive gathering dust. I'll take a little time during the day to capture the two of you together without an audience, but I won't ask you to walk towards me repeatedly or pretend you've just noticed the sunset. What you'll end up with is something that actually feels like your day, which is, I'd argue, the whole point.
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