Photo-journalistic Wedding Photography

      Looking at wedding websites on line, both in Wales and in Spain, I see that for many wedding photographers, the current buzz word is photo-journalism. I imagine that the suggestion is that the photographer shoots what he sees and not the line-ups of family and friends so dear to the hearts of brides and their families the world over.

      For somebody who was a photo-journalist for 25 years (ie: earned my living as a photographer and occasionally wrote articles for newspapers) it’s irritating because it’s incorrect. Anything except hard news, war zones (and even here, history relates, a slightly singed teddy bear has been known to be strategically placed in scenes of devastation to increase the pathos) and sports photography, were totally posed and controlled by the photographer.

Wimbledon 1986 we were not disappointed

   A slice of photo-journalism specifically for everybody who knocks Andy Murray 

      In the late eighties, Andrew Castle, shared two things with Britain's current number one tennis player. His christian name and the fact that he was the British white hope and number one. His highest singles ranking was 80 and in doubles he made it once to the third round of a grand slam tournament but as far as I remember he was never vilified the way our current number one is. In fact he was never vilified at all, he was charming, good looking and we all knew that, "it wasn't the winning that mattered, it was the taking part", after all we were British and that was the British way. Ooh how we've changed.

Andrew Castle down and out in 1986

     In this era of vastly higher tennis ability and achievement Andy Murray has committed only one crime: he has allowed the British public to hope! And so far he has not quite delivered what they want. 

        How greedy and impatient we are!

        Nobody can doubt how talented and committed our gravel voiced Scot is. 

       Don't give up folks, remember Ivanesovic, always there or thereabouts until his last and final slam.




And for a photo-journalistic style of wedding photographs
Go to: patsyfaganphotography.co.uk