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Steven Taylor is unusual among wedding photographers. Art School educated Steven has an M.A in photography from De Montfort University in Leicester and has been a professional photographer for almost 30 years. He has worked on documentary and fine art projects for magazines, books and galleries throughout the world. Steven taught fine art and documentary photography at Lancaster University as well as to other professional photographers in the UK and Europe. He is an Associate of the British Institute of Professional Photography and The Royal Photographic Society. He is the recipient of over 100 awards from Fujifilm, Kodak and the British Professional Photography Awards for his wedding photography. In 2005 Steven was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s Schweppes Portrait Awards.
Steven strongly believes that photography is best used as a story telling tool with the minimum of interference from the photographer. Wedding photography should be about recording the day unobtrusively and with spontaneity.
“…Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again…Our task is to perceive reality, almost simultaneously recording it in the sketchbook which is our camera. We must neither try to manipulate reality while we are shooting, nor manipulate the results in a darkroom. These tricks are patently discernible to those who have eyes to see…”
Henri Cartier-Bresson, from The Decisive Moment (1952).
Steven Taylor is passionate about photography; his images and albums are creative, illustrative and informative.
Picture by Josh Taylor
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