Photo Review

Wedded to the moment

‘We have amazing cameras now, but it still takes skill to capture those very fast moments when everything is perfect.’

We all know what wedding photos look like. But yours don’t look like that. Can you explain why?

Right from the start, I didn’t know what I liked, but I knew what I didn’t like.

The photography you do and the style you end up doing is a representation of who you are inside. I’m a very genuine sort of person and I love capturing real, raw emotion in a moment.

You know what [pioneering French street photographer] Henri Cartier-Bresson called ‘the decisive moment’? In the wedding context, I prefer to call them peak moments, and they’re very important to me because most people can’t catch them. We have amazing cameras now, but it still takes skill to capture those very fast moments when everything is perfect.

For example,

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