Award winning wedding photography

award winning wedding photograph from the fearless photographers awards

Showing the cause and effect often yields great storytelling in an image. Here, each half of the story is presented in its own frame—
the bride shown framed in a mirror and her misty-eyed father subtly framed by the artwork behind him.
As their gazes connect across the image, we find ourselves invested in the emotional narrative. 

– from the Editors of Fearless Photographers

 

Fearless photographers is a group of the very best wedding photographers from around the world, I’ve been a member of Fearless since January 2016. I don’t normally enter photography awards as many of them are little more than popularity contests where others vote for the winning image. Fearless is different as the competition is judged by a panel of photographers and competition is extremely tough as the world’s best wedding photographers all enter images. I was absolutely delighted to win an award for this image.

As a documentary wedding photographer I’m always on the look out for photographs that tell a story as well as being aesthetically pleasing. I had stood outside the bride’s dressing room with her father waiting for her to get dressed, when we were called in and her father saw his daughter as a bride for the first time he was overcome with emotion. I had a fraction of a second to compose the image using the mirror and frame before the moment was lost. This is what I love about documentary wedding photography, I have no idea what will happen in front of my lens and I never know when I am going to get an image that wins awards. I never set up any of the elements in my photographs, it was a combination of luck and skill that came together for this photograph and I know I will never capture this same shot again.

 

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