Street photography has become mainstream in the last 5 years, although the pandemic has naturally limited this practice recently. Wikipedia references Mary Warner Marien’s 100 ideas that changed photography when defining street photography as:
“photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.”
It’s not by chance that this definition could broadly be applied to our style of wedding photography, and indeed Em and I have been working on street photography projects for many years. We’ve also attended lectures and collected books from some of the greats of the genre, but that’s another post for another day!
Here’s a small sample of some of our images from some time ago (all pre-lockdown, when masks were a curiosity and crowds of people unremarkable).