I’m a wedding photographer working across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. I shoot the moments that happen without being asked to, and I make time for proper portraits too, because you’ll want both once the day’s gone. I want your photographs to feel as bright and alive as the day did. Open the gallery in twenty years and it should still feel like that, not like something from another decade.
meet
ANDY
For seven years I ran a kids' football team on Saturday mornings, through a couple of seasons that Covid mangled beyond recognition. If you want to know whether I can hold a group of nervous people together and keep things moving when nothing's going to plan, that's where I learned it.
The picture is the image I posted to Instagram to celebrate our hand sanitised return to some sort of normality.
I was born and raised in the city of Liverpool, met Claire at college in London and eventually we moved to the Fens..
When I'm not shooting weddings, I'm usually playing guitar somewhere far too small for it. I've been in bands since before I picked up a camera, and most of what I know about timing came from a stage.
The video is of my band playing at The Betsy Trotwood on Farringdon Road in London. If you do take the time to check it out you will not be surprised to discover we don't do weddings x
Football
I got married myself at Marylebone Register Office, no fuss, no big performance. I know what the nerves feel like from the other side of the camera, and I know the day isn't really about how composed you look. It's about who's stood next to you. Or in my case, who you are standing (hiding!) behind x
Actually I say no fuss but Claire was just under thirty minutes late stuck in a red mini and enjoying London traffic. My abiding memory is of the registrar telling me that if she was any more than two more minutes the wedding was off! Like I said, no drama.
love!
MUSIC
Before I started to shoot weddings I had played in bands for years in London. To this day I still play but spend more time writing then gigging. I doubt I'll ever stop :)
My first experience of photography was with my dad. Being a wedding photographer himself he used to take me with him as his faithful helper. I would hesitate to say it's in my blood but it might as well be! I learnt an awful lot about weddings, possibly too much for one so young.
l shoot the moments nobody planned, and I make time for proper portraits because both of those things end up mattering once the day is over and the memory is all you've got left.
IT's NICE TO MEET YOU
helen & boda
“Andy was fantastic—easy to be around, great energy, and captured the day exactly as it felt.”
dear reader please go easy on me but i don't really like cake..
CAKE
i've loved hunting for second hand clothes since i lived by camden market as a student. Isnt Vinted ACE!!
VINTAGE
the SEASIDE
both claire and myself are from coast cities. Ideally I'd live in Cambridge on Sea :)
we were so going to live in a minimalist home but now its full of stuff. I blame my kids.
STUFF
even better in summer :)
lazy SUNDAYS
Booking me is simple. We’ll have a chat, but it won’t be a sales pitch, and nobody’s going to tell you a date is about to disappear. You ask what you need to ask, I give you a straight answer, and if it feels right we book it.
On the day, I’m mostly watching what’s actually happening. Portraits and family photos are planned with you beforehand, so you know roughly when they’ll be and how long they’ll take. If the day shifts, we sort it out together.
PROCESS
Twelve years in, I’ve seen most of what a wedding day can throw at me, and I’ve only got quicker at reading it. I know when the speeches are about to land, when to step in and when to leave people alone. What hasn’t changed is what the photographs are for. The couples who hired me in 2014 still love their galleries, and I want the same to be true for whoever I’m photographing this weekend.
JOURNEY
Every photo is shot in the colour the day actually was. No fading it out, no pushing it toward a trend that'll look dated in five years. I shoot both the moments nobody planned and proper portraits where you get to stand still for a second and look like yourselves. Neither one on its own tells the whole story of a wedding. Together, they do.
STYLE
REAL WEDDINGS
MADE TO LAST
NO PERFORMANCE
If you want photos that look like the day you actually had, and portraits that still look right on the wall in twenty years, you're in the right place.
I take the time to actually get to know the people I'm photographing, not just the timeline. That's what makes the difference between photos that document a day and photos you still want to look at years from now.
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