Musings of a Wedding Photographer

I am a documentary wedding photographer based in Ottawa. From when I first began studying photography in 1997 I developed a deep respect and passion for documentary and reportage photography. Back then, there was really no such thing as ‘documentary wedding photography’. Wedding photographers focused primarily on portraits, a handful of ceremony, speeches, and cake-cutting images, and an album was always part of the package. Then a few years later, as press photographers were pushed out of business through the improvements and ease of use of digital cameras, they moved into other fields of photography, and a new style of wedding photography was born. But what is documentary wedding photography? Blog Post: https://photographersara.ca/documentary-wedding-photographer/ Focal Encyclopedia - Link to purchase: https://www.routledge.com/The-Focal-Encyclopedia-of-Photography/Peres/p/book/9781138298576