Cambridge
United Kingdom
"A highly commended and experienced photographer, perhaps best-known for his wedding photography. A delight to work with he engages tirelessly with an interested passion and insightfulness to the job in hand. A most welcome guest, yet unobtrusive in the execution of his craft."
United Kingdom
"A highly commended and experienced photographer, perhaps best-known for his wedding photography. A delight to work with he engages tirelessly with an interested passion and insightfulness to the job in hand. A most welcome guest, yet unobtrusive in the execution of his craft."
Based in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, UK), where I live with my wife and three daughters, I provide photographic services for weddings, families, events, corporate and commercial organisations. My work and passion for photography has taken me to various interesting and beautiful parts of the world. Fortunately, for me, travel is a bonus, not a bind and is one of the necessary spice ingredients of my life.
My first recollections of an interest in photography go back to when I was knee-high to a grasshopper! I recall rummaging through a box of black and white photographs and negatives taken by my father, that I'd found in the attic of our house. With the negatives held up to the light I desperately tried to imagine how they would look as a print, where they were taken and who was in them. I would sit for hours dreamily lost in the 'present' of a past world. With the prints that I dug out of the box my fascination was with the shadows; the light; the 'lead-in' and compositional constructs that drew my eye into the image; the drama; the simplicity; pattern; geometry; balance; the curiosity of where, when and who all captured in a split second - telling their stories for ever!
Images may be accepted at face value and simply be pleasing to the eye without, necessarily, the need for further interpretation. In my opinion great photographs retain enignamtic and timeless qualities that continue to give pleasure, to interest and to increase their value. That said, empowerment to interpret an image remains with the viewer.
I am intrigued by the idea that 'a photographic image is true and false in equal measure' - taken from the introduction to The Genius of Photography, by Gerry Badger. Context and perspective play enormous roles in the 'truth' conveyed by an image; I will naturally try to convey the 'truth' unless a pleasing picture is all that is required. It is also amazing that given the billions of photos uploaded into that great cyberworld no two are ever the same!
For me, each day provides new and exciting opportunities to see things in another light or from a different perspective. This can be as wonderful as it is frustrating. Wonderful, because of the magic and magificence of nature or the impact from interactions of our social and often distraught world. Frustrating, because I simply want to do justice to the emotion of what I see and experience through the medium and expression of my art - the process from observation to capture to production to the final image. In this respect technical advancements are enablers, but only go part of the way to achieving this. A good camera and the best equipment do not make a good photographer; a good photographer makes a good picture.
I'm not locked into a particular style - often the image will suggest its own style, which makes it exciting! My natural approach to capturing images tends towards documentary or reportage. Please be my guest and take a look at my images by clicking on the 'Photographs' tab at the top of this page.
http://www.andrewwilkinsonphotography.com/about.html
Thank you...
My first recollections of an interest in photography go back to when I was knee-high to a grasshopper! I recall rummaging through a box of black and white photographs and negatives taken by my father, that I'd found in the attic of our house. With the negatives held up to the light I desperately tried to imagine how they would look as a print, where they were taken and who was in them. I would sit for hours dreamily lost in the 'present' of a past world. With the prints that I dug out of the box my fascination was with the shadows; the light; the 'lead-in' and compositional constructs that drew my eye into the image; the drama; the simplicity; pattern; geometry; balance; the curiosity of where, when and who all captured in a split second - telling their stories for ever!
Images may be accepted at face value and simply be pleasing to the eye without, necessarily, the need for further interpretation. In my opinion great photographs retain enignamtic and timeless qualities that continue to give pleasure, to interest and to increase their value. That said, empowerment to interpret an image remains with the viewer.
I am intrigued by the idea that 'a photographic image is true and false in equal measure' - taken from the introduction to The Genius of Photography, by Gerry Badger. Context and perspective play enormous roles in the 'truth' conveyed by an image; I will naturally try to convey the 'truth' unless a pleasing picture is all that is required. It is also amazing that given the billions of photos uploaded into that great cyberworld no two are ever the same!
For me, each day provides new and exciting opportunities to see things in another light or from a different perspective. This can be as wonderful as it is frustrating. Wonderful, because of the magic and magificence of nature or the impact from interactions of our social and often distraught world. Frustrating, because I simply want to do justice to the emotion of what I see and experience through the medium and expression of my art - the process from observation to capture to production to the final image. In this respect technical advancements are enablers, but only go part of the way to achieving this. A good camera and the best equipment do not make a good photographer; a good photographer makes a good picture.
I'm not locked into a particular style - often the image will suggest its own style, which makes it exciting! My natural approach to capturing images tends towards documentary or reportage. Please be my guest and take a look at my images by clicking on the 'Photographs' tab at the top of this page.
http://www.andrewwilkinsonphotography.com/about.html
Thank you...
