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?

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