I was celebrating Christmas 2004 at my sisters house in Gloucestershire as the Boxing Day Tsunami destroyed huge areas of Aceh in Indonesia as well as parts of Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. As I flew out to Chennai to begin photographing the devastation for The Times, I couldn’t imagine what it must have been…
Here’s the second image chosen by Giac from his and Jessica’s destination wedding in Portofino, Italy. This has been captured at dusk during the portrait session. Though I am a documentary photographer, and the vast majority of my day is spent finding and capturing the kind of story telling images you can see all over this website, I do spend around fifteen minutes making a set of portraits.
A Summer Horsted Place Wedding I really enjoyed photographing this Horsted Place wedding. Janet and Jonathan had planned a great celebration earlier in the Summer. Horsted Place is a fabulous Victorian country house in the East Sussex countryside. Janet’s preparation was full of lively activity with Jonathan’s two daughters and a flower-girl all adding to the…
This image, captured at Jessica and Giac’s wedding at this amazing destination wedding in Portofino, Italy, is a beautiful moment after the ceremony. I’m often on the look out for these kind of tender moments.
Low Light Wedding Photography Being the photographer at Nigel and Eliza’s St Eltheldreda’s Church wedding was both fun and photographically challenging. The planning for their London ceremony started from their home in Singapore. They knew they wanted documentary style of photography with minimal orchestration. They also knew they needed a photographer who could work well in very low light. Although…
London Same Sex Wedding D-J and John’s London same sex wedding earlier this year was a fantastic day to photograph. I began at the Boundary Hotel, photographing their final preparations before joining their families on the roof bar for some pre-wedding drinks. Orange was playing a big part in the day. It reflected D-J’s Dutch…
It’s 10pm on a Tuesday night in October, and a phone call from the picture desk at The Times informs me that I will be getting up at 6am tomorrow morning, taking some warm clothes, lunch in a box and a lot of patience up to Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire. There, I am to join…
London Burgh House Wedding Burgh House in London is a beautiful 18th Century Historic House in Hampstead, North London. It’s been a private dwelling, an Officer’s Mess and barracks. It was home to Rudyard Kipling’s daughter in the 1930’s. Since the 1970’s, it’s been owned by the local council, and together with local residents has…
Great News! This image from Gaby and Peter’s Botleys Mansion Wedding in Surrey has just won 15th place in the 2014 Q4 WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association) contest, in the Food and Drinks category. It’s an image I had in my mind as soon as I saw all the waiting staff bringing out the dinner for the…