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Documentary Wedding Photographers in London

Find a documentary wedding photographer in London. Check our popular top-rated London photographers who’ll capture your day in an unobtrusive way. For a fuller list check our London wedding photographer page.

Candid Wedding Photographers in the Southeast

It’s simple to find a photojournalistic wedding photographer in the southeast of England. Whether you are looking for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire or Kent, you’re sure time find what you are looking for. For a longer list check out wedding photographers in the southeast of England or for a full list enter your wedding date and venue address in the search bar.

What is Documentary Wedding photography?

Documentary and reportage photography is a candid style of capturing photos, you may have also heard it called reportage, or photojournalistic. Although different names they are the same style. So what is the style? It is all about observational, unobtrusive and candid photos. It is about telling a story of the day, capturing emotions, expressions on yours and your guests faces, the tear running down your mothers cheek, the awkward face on the groom as his best man reads his speech, the smiles and laughter on your guests faces. Documentary Wedding Photography is about the story of your day captured in a relaxed and informal manner so when you look back over your photos, you can relive the day and also see moments that you may have missed. This is reportage.

How did Documentary Wedding photography Start?

Before digital cameras, buying and developing film was expensive, so wedding photographers would stage a series of shots to get the best use from 2 rolls of film. You’ll probably recognise this type of ‘traditional‘ wedding photography from older wedding albums. There is a shot of the bride and groom walking out of the church, one of everyone at the wedding, a close family picture and a few couples portraits. Job done. Much of photographer’s role was to co-ordinate these shots and make sure everyone was where they needed to be for the pictures. Some people like this approach but it does mean a lot of the wedding day is focussed around the photography – rather than family and friends.

With digital cameras a new style of photography emerged – documentary wedding photography – where the photographer documents the day in an unobtrusive style as it unfolds. They can take thousands of images – because it doesn’t cost anything – and then just pick the best ones. Usually they’ll capture some groups shots as well. So most documentary wedding photographers are actually a mix of documentary and traditional styles. You can always let me them know what you want.

Reportage Wedding Photographers in Yorkshire

A selection of experienced reportage photographers for your Yorkshire wedding, for a fuller list go to our yorkshire wedding photographer page, or check all our listings for Yorkshire.

What’s the difference between Reportage and Documentary wedding photography?

Documentary wedding photography has lots of different names for essentially the same thing: documentary, reportage, photojournalistic or candid. For all practical purposes these words are interchangeable. It’s an unobtrusive style of photography where the photographer is in the background capturing the wedding day as it unfolds, and where they tell the story of the day through their images rather than create a story to photograph. It creates a timeless, authentic feel to the wedding album and allows the guests to focus on the wedding rather than the photography.

Candid Wedding Photographers across East of England

Book a wedding photographer who’ll capture your special day in a natural, documentary style in the East of England. If you are looking for some in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk or Suffolk why not book a call with one of these awesome photographers?

Photojournalist Photographers in the Midlands

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What is NOT documentary wedding photography?

Reportage wedding photography isn’t just about ignoring the camera and lots of lovely black and white photos. It is about the photographer telling a story of the day, capturing the emotions, the feelings, those little moments that maybe missed while telling a beautiful story of the day through captured photos. Traditional photos such as group shots, whether with different family members, your parents, close friends, are traditional wedding photography, rather than documentary. That being said a photographer whose style is all about candid photos, will take these photos, so speak to them about it. It is best to keep them to as few as possible as they can take time to do them.

Documentary Photography in North England

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Documentary Wedding Photographers Near You

When we set about creating wedissimo we wanted to harness the power of localism, and champion local suppliers. Too often we hear of suppliers travelling long distances (or even flying internationally for a destination wedding). And yet, there are so many amazing wedding photographers near you that you might not have been able to find…until now. By using our simple search function, you can select your venue location by postcode, or simply enter the name of the town or the city if you don’t know the postcode yet, and you will see only those photographers whose travel radius includes your venue. All prices on the site are fully inclusive of travel, so you will find that the most affordable wedding photographers are those which are near to you, and don’t have to slap on expensive travel time and costs. Saving the planet (with lower carbon footprint) and your wallet at the same time.

Top Reportage Wedding Photographers in Scotland

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