THE INTERVALS by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON
The photographs are of some of the guests taking part in the wedding ceremony
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The other participants
Ever since I’ve been photographing weddings, I’ve discovered one of the subjects I’m most drawn to during a ceremony. At the very first one I did at the Church of S. Pedro de Penaferrim in Sintra, with practically no training whatsoever, although photography as a profession had already been part of me for many years, I was struck, during a few moments when I had to stop photographing or there was nothing new with the groom and the bride in front of the altar during the various ceremonial processes, by some of the participants who turned out to be great givers of what I was there to collect.
The wedding guests
On the other hand, I immediately noticed that they were generous in their giving, that they didn’t care about the wedding photographer, and that they were overwhelmed by the presence and spirit of the importance of what was happening. A wedding ceremony. Since then, I’ve never stopped taking advantage of the breaks, whether in a church or on a farm, to collect a state of mind, to pay attention to what’s going on, or even that feeling that it should be over soon, because there are more desirable things after the wedding ceremony.
They are the wedding guests. They are the ones who testify that what that couple is swearing is true, they are the ones who, with their warmth, inform humanity of a ceremony that is meant to be shared and they are the ones who offer the wedding photographer a set of photographs that will show the bride and groom that they were not only there, but that they had their full attention on the importance of what the bride and groom were doing.
Guarantee the memory
I don’t always bring them up here, but they deserve it with the same rigor as the main characters in the story that the wedding photographer is writing with his lens because they are the ones who fill the space around the bride and groom and their hearts with the love they are showing them with their presence. It is therefore up to the wedding photographer to guarantee them that memory too and to give them some of the prominence they so deserve.
Since that very first wedding day, those in attendance have always been generous in their giving to me, and, as the wedding photographer, I have never failed to thank them by bringing them along as photographs.
Dot by dot:
- Right from the start as a wedding photographer, I was drawn to photograph some participants other than the bride and groom at the ceremonies.
- They didn’t mind me taking photos of them; they were generous and had no interest in me, which was fantastic. They were the wedding guests.
- Indeed, I don’t bring them into my blog articles very often for various reasons. But now and then, a tribute in the form of a few photographs at the wedding ceremony or party is only fair.
You need to know:
- At your wedding, they too, your guests, will be the attraction of my lens for the photographs that will show them. Just contact me and I’ll be there.
- Guests of the wedding at Convento do Espinheiro in Évora, Portugal