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21.01.2022 Our collaborative shoot. Now live on To the Aisle Australia.
14.01.2022 Alesha In @ella_moda Styled by @boholuxeandco
09.01.2022 The Pouring A collaboration Shot by @calika.co
08.01.2022 That just married feeling #goldcoastweddingphotographer
06.01.2022 Late last year I was asked by GCUH to photograph a wedding for Michelle and her long time partner Darren. Michelle had been given two weeks to live and told that if her and Darren wished to marry it would have to happen that day. Weddings are emotionally complicated events on a good day. Navigating such a moment in people’s lives, as photographers, requires a certain kind of sensitivity that gives space and absolute intimacy in the same bite. Every wedding is a huge undertaki...ng - for me, at least. Stepping into this day alongside Michelle and Darren, their children, grandchildren and community was challenging. In every moment of celebration was the awareness of grief and the two dichotomies pulled in such a way that I was left both overwhelmed and frozen in my emotions for some days after. That day left an impression on my heart that I thank Michelle and Darren and their family for giving me. I experienced the true permanence of a photograph and the impermanence of life in the same breath. And how one without the other doesn’t quite make much sense at all. Perhaps this is why we as photographers often struggle so hard to put a dollar value on our service. It is a service we would offer for free with a product that increases in infinite value over time. It makes me ask what is so innate in us that wants to get married? That to tie in this way would be your one last wish? I received an answer in a little prayer book I flipped open this week; Marriage was created as a fortress for wellbeing and salvation. It is the container in which we can be safe in our own unlocking. Perhaps then, for Michelle it was a safe harbour to journey from into the next unknown. Even though COVID has ripped a hole in all of our realities - I wanted to take this moment to celebrate all the couples that are coming together to marry in the spirit of what’s truly important lately. I really am observing such a beautiful refinement around me of a wedding day that is about the love and nothing else. In an age of image and information, families are just relieved and happy to be there. Together. Mostly, everything else is just fluff.
