photographer & filmmaker based in East London.
INTRODUCTION
After several years working in the fashion industry, I was introduced to videography by a designer and close friend who was building a team for a wedding filmmaking company. I joined the team and began learning the foundations of wedding filmmaking through direct experience, working under guided mentorship and alongside people who had already spent years refining their craft.
Over the following two summers, I worked with two wedding film companies and collaborated with experienced filmmakers, which gave me a strong technical and creative base, while also showing me how much more there was to explore beyond simply documenting a day. I also came to appreciate just how varied weddings can be and I feel fortunate to have captured a wide range of celebrations over the years, from the more casual and informal to those that are more detailed and considered.
In many ways, capturing weddings came to feel like a natural meeting point for everything I had long been drawn to. It brought together image, rhythm, emotion, sound, style and storytelling with the unpredictability, intimacy and personal connection that a wedding day brings. That is what makes documenting weddings feel so different from other creative work. Everyone is drawn into a day that is wonderfully momentary and full of feeling, and this is what quickly drew me in.
I feel so privileged to work in a craft that is both creatively challenging and emotionally compelling, while also allowing me to meet people at such an important and personal moment in their lives.
ON THE WORK
I had already spent years around visual culture before discovering weddings, and that background still shapes the way I see. I continue to draw from different creative disciplines including fashion, photography, film, music and the wider arts, while keeping an ongoing habit of collecting references across different fields as a way of developing my eye and ear.
Over the years, my style continued to evolve. When I first started filming weddings, I was taught to work with a calm and intentional rhythm, often leaning into slow motion and a more traditionally cinematic aesthetic. Since then, my perspective has broadened through the influence of many different filmmakers, photographers and artists, as well as through my own experimentation with pacing, tone, framing and technique. That process has led me towards more manual ways of working, a blend of cine and digital lenses, drone footage, analogue cameras and a range of compact tools that allow me to stay agile while maintaining a strong level of production.
What matters most to me is not only the expected centrepiece moments, but everything surrounding them. Shifts in mood, the texture of a space, exchanges between people, small unnoticed details and fragments of subtle movement and sounds that give a wedding its real character. I’m interested in building work that feels layered and alive, where playful moments, quieter gestures, atmosphere and dialogue all have room to exist together.
Being in the work for a long time has also opened my practice out beyond filmmaking alone. Photography became a natural extension of the way I work, along with a broader understanding of lighting, pacing, coordination and production value as a whole. Developing across these areas and building a network has allowed me to have a more well rounded approach to weddings, creating wider foundations of a studio-led practice that continues to grow.