When I originally studied photography at Rhodes it seemed that all the photography students were obsessed with gritty photojourn images of burning tyres and protests. It was the photography of the early Nineties. The bang-bang club ruled supreme and everyone tried to imitate their style.

It was a student in that class that turned me on to George Hurrel. Master of the classical hollywood glamour portrait. She lent me a book of his portraits and I have been hooked ever since. Highly stylized, sensual studio portraits of the great stars that became the epitome of Hollywood glamour. He had an incredibly sense of dramatic light, shadows and high contrast images. I’ve loved it ever since and have been trying to infuse my images not only with his sense of style but also with that grand cinematic feeling that comes from movies from the 1940′s and 50′s.

I know, and you’re right, it is not always possible in a photojourn setting to get those kinds of images, the light might not be right and the setting is probably not as majestic, but I always try to evoke that glamourous feeling and that sense of style that he pioneered and has since been picked up on by countless filmmakers. That’s one of the reasons I’m not really keen on the term photojournalism for wedding photography. Photojourn is showing things as they are, holding up a mirror to the world. When it comes to weddings I prefer to show the glamourous side of it.

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