Last night we were awarded Wedding Album of the Year at the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography's annual award ceremony. It was a convincing win receiving a Gold with Distinction from the judges.

We have won this title every year it has been awarded (3 times).

I see myself as a storyteller.

I wanted to create a book that was like a personal and intimate journal.
I wanted to tell a story in a less than obvious way
I wanted the book to say these things before you even opened it.
I referred to the feel of the album as being similar to your old, comfortably worn couch.
This couch is the one where you sit in the sun and read while listening to the music that moves you. It gives you comfort and has a reality, almost a wisdom, about it that comes from years of being a couch.
I wanted the viewer to feel an honesty and a beauty when they held this amazing book.
I wanted it to suggest a quality that said way more than a bunch of photographs on a page.
This album wanted to be suggestive of a rich reward to anybody who had the privilege to hold it, and the curiosity to look inside
You could argue ‘but its just a book of pictures.’
In one sense you might be right, but the truth is that it is somebody’s dream that we have retold. Dreams are worth more than that.

I was very fortunate that my needs coincided with something that Heather Baugh from Queensberry was working on as part of a series of unique bespoke albums. Queensberry have just gone through a major exercise in redefining themselves.

The images were simple narratives of a day in the life of two beautiful people.

I am so lucky to share that day with people and put it somewhere safe for them to go back to one day.

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Wedding album of the year

Weding album of the year opening 4

It gets out of hand!

Then you might ask what does it matter.
The 'matter ' comes with the bestowing of value through the artistic label.
So then it is that art is about money ... but as soon as it is about money it is no longer art!

Confused ... I am .... almost

There used to be a cool video clip here from the Creature Comfort Series ... unfortunately it disappeared for now ... but while it was up we enjoyed it