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Hello, I’m Amanda
A wedding photographer with an incurable soft spot for quiet mornings, good light and the moments nobody thinks to ask for.
I photograph weddings the way I wish mine had been photographed.
Softly, honestly, and with room to breathe. No stiff posing, no shot-list marathon, no forty-five minutes of your reception spent standing in a field. Just you, the people you love, and the light of the day as it truly was.
I fell into this by accident. I was twenty-three, borrowing my father’s battered film camera at a friend’s wedding in a village hall, and I have never quite recovered from what it feels like to hand someone a photograph of a moment they had already forgotten.
Fourteen years and something like two hundred weddings later, that is still the whole job. Everything else — the equipment, the timelines, the albums — exists in service of it.
With love, Amanda
Three things I believe about photographs
A photograph should feel like the day felt
Not brighter, not bluer, not thinner. If the chapel was dim and golden, your photographs will be dim and golden. I grade every image warm and true, the way film does, so that in thirty years it still looks like a memory rather than a trend.
The best moments are never announced
Your father going quiet during the speeches. Your best friend fixing your veil in a doorway. Nobody calls for those, and no shot list contains them. My whole method is simply being present, unhurried and close enough to notice.
A file on a hard drive is not a photograph yet
It becomes one when it is printed, held and passed around a kitchen table. That is why every collection ends in paper — archival prints, a linen album, something your grandchildren can put their fingers on.
Small things you may as well know
Based in the Cotswolds
A stone cottage, a slightly overgrown garden, and a darkroom that used to be a pantry. I travel from here to anywhere.
Around thirty weddings a year
Deliberately few. It is the only way I can give each one the attention and the slow editing it deserves.
Digital, graded like film
Modern cameras for reliability, a hand-built colour process for warmth. Real film for a roll or two, when the day allows.
Happiest in the rain
Genuinely. Overcast light is the kindest light there is, and nobody ever forgets the wedding where it poured.
She disappeared into the day and came back with all of it. I do not know how else to describe what she does.
Marta & Idris — married in Snowdonia
Where the camera has been lately
I’d love to hear about your day.
Even if you are only at the “we think it might be next autumn, somewhere with a garden” stage. Those are my favourite emails.