Award Winning Wedding Photographer

I’ll be honest, I don’t really enter my work into wedding photography awards or competitions, my immediate aim is not to be one of those award-winning wedding photographers, as talented as they are. I know it's cliché but instead, I focus my time on delivering exceptional products to my wedding couples. I also help other wedding photographers through my various photography business and marketing training programmes.

It’s far more important to me that my customers get the amazing wedding photographs they're expecting, and so my time goes into that process over and above submitting work to wedding photography and industry awards.

I'm not taking anything away from the many award-winning wedding photographers, the top ten UK or even the world's best, there are some truly exceptional wedding photographers out there, it's just that entering these awards doesn't guarantee that my wedding images will be promoted to the right people - something far more important to me than any perceived industry kudos.

That said, my photography is shortlisted for various wedding awards and collections every so often and am proud to be featured on the same list as some of the best wedding photographers the UK and even world has to offer. My most recent accolades include being shortlisted as a Best UK Wedding Photographer by Hen Heaven, International Wedding and Portrait Photographer of the Year by Lux’s Global Wedding Awards, The 50 Best Wedding Photographers UK by Go Hen and one of the 'Top 10 Wedding Photographers' by Professional Photographer magazine.

Wedding Photography Associations, not Awards

With competitions, it's possible to get that one amazing but nevertheless, lucky shot featured and be forever labelled an ‘award-winning wedding photographer’. The problem is, the best wedding photographers at the very top of their game rely on genuine skill, understanding and consistency, luck rarely comes into it.

To develop the kind of depth, variety and consistency required to reliably produce great, professional wedding photos across an 8, 10 even 12 hour day takes many years and a huge amount of effort and investment.

Instead of competitions, I focus on ‘Associations’ - groups that feature only the very best wedding photography; peer-reviewed and hand-picked for entry to join a small collection of the most talented, top wedding photographers in the UK and world. Entry to something as exclusive as the invitation-only Best of Wedding Photography or the reportage-only directory This is Reportage, are worth a hundred photo awards to me.

I'm also part of the Wedding Photojournalists Association (aka documentary), as well as a member of the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers, both of which require the client and peer testimonials in order for photographers to achieve membership status.