I'm Stan, Kent-based documentary wedding photographer, shooting weddings all over the place. I'm incredibly lucky I get to work with couples who love photography but don't want to turn their wedding into a photoshoot. Sounds like you? Have a nosey and if you like what you see, I'd love to hear ALL about you and your big day.
Most couples I photograph aren't big posers. In fact, most of them, like me, don't particularly enjoy being photographed at all.
That's absolutely fine. There's no pressure to perform or do anything in particular. You really do get to enjoy your wedding and get beautiful photographs without the cringe posing.
I'm not there to run your wedding, interrupt what's happening or disappear with you for an hour while everyone else is having all the fun.
For around 95% of the day, I let things happen and photograph them as they do. Family photos and a few photographs together? Absolutely. We'll usually get them done in around 10-15 minutes.
Then you're straight back to your wedding.
Being hands-off doesn't mean I'm just standing around waiting for something to happen.
I'm constantly watching - for the big emotions, the little in-between moments, great light, interesting compositions and all the stuff happening around you that you didn't even notice.
I won't impose a template or certain look on your wedding either. I'll photograph what makes your day yours, creatively and as it really happened, so the photos don't just show how it looked - they bring back how it felt.
Three weddings, three completely different days.
Have a look through the full stories and see what it feels like to have your wedding photographed without turning it into a photoshoot.
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I love photography and I'm incredibly grateful I get to earn my living through my passion. What inspires me deeply and excites me is street photography and the idea of capturing life as it happens in a visually intriguing way.
So at weddings as well as capturing the energy and feeling of the day, I always try to create images that are unique, creative and interesting to look at.
I'm so proud and grateful to be in This is Reportage's TOP 40 photographers worldwide ranking - TiR awards are the most difficult to win within the documentary wedding photography industry worldwide.
I also landed in Photographers Keeping it Real's TOP 10 Worldwide ranking - mind blown again, but extremely grateful and proud. I also made it to the finals at The Wedding Industry Awards in the first year that I joined. I'm absolutely chuffed to bits with it all!
Stan, I literally have no words. Thank you a million times over - you’ve captured beautiful moments we can look at for the rest of our lives perfectly, and we loved every single picture - literally every one. We cannot say thank you and we love you enough, you’re a literal angel and we’ll forever be grateful that we chose you to be our photographer, not only are you amazing at your job, but you’re an amazing human, and we were so lucky to have you be part of our special day.