My story
I wanted to be a lawyer when I grew up. Then I grew up and became a lawyer and realised I didn’t. What I really loved was taking photographs. I loved how the photographs I took were the ones my friends loved of themselves and each other. I loved how giving someone a photograph they really cherished made me feel like this thing that I was good at, and loved doing, also mattered. Like every cherished photo was a little act of kindness I got to perform. In my late twenties I left my career in law and followed my dream of doing that all the time. I’ve been so lucky to be a wedding photographer for over a decade now. It’s been well over 300 weddings and every single wedding I photograph, every story I’m welcomed into, still feels like a massive privilege to me.
In that time I also married one of the world’s best documentary wedding photographers (Kevin Kheffache) and we set out on the greatest adventure of all, raising our two beautiful boys, Max and Joshie (the two most photographed children in Ireland!)
My philosophy
My goal is to make elegant, flattering and beautiful wedding photographs that also feel alive and uniquely you, not stiff or generic. I want these photographs to tell the story of a magical day in your life, one you got to fully live and experience. I want you to look at your photographs and feel it all all over again, to see how loved you are and how beautiful the real moments of your life are. I want these photographs to be treasured.
My Style & Approach
I believe the best wedding photographs are the ones nobody planned (the parent who held it all together until that one little one when they didn’t, you and your best friend laughing your heads off at something noone else heard, the kids going gloriously off-script) and that the meaningful photographs come from all of the real life magic that happens when you’ve forgotten you’re being photographed.
Wedding photography should work with the flow of your day as you want it and not interrupt it. Being photographed on your wedding day should feel comfortable and effortless. Your wedding photography should reflect a day fully lived not spent posing.
So I work in a documentary style, which means I'm there, but I'm not there. No staging pretend moments, no directing, no pulling you away from your own wedding. I’m like a guest with a camera, moving quietly and unobtrusively with the flow of your day, noticing and paying close attention so you can relive it all later.
I see weddings as a very beautiful thing so that’s what I notice, real beauty and joy and all of the love you’re surrounded by. The photographs are flattering but natural, beautiful but also alive in a way that staged photographs can never be.
When I photograph the posed parts of the day (family photographs, any couple photos you might like in your gorgeous venue) I’m still trying to preserve that natural feel with beautiful, flattering lighting and classic comfortable posing. The amount of time spent on these is up to you. I’ll never require anything of you, first and foremost, I just want you to enjoy your day (that’s where the best photos come from anyway!)
I want these photographs to be cherished. I want you to look at them time and time again and feel all the joy of the day and experience again all the love you felt. These are photographs presented in bright and flattering true colour that will last the generations. The black and whites are soft, romantic and timeless.
My couples want elegant and timeless wedding photographs they just also want that beauty to feel real. If this sounds like you let’s chat.
The most awarded Irish wedding photographer of all time
DOC DAY
When we’re not photographing weddings or hanging out in Dun Laoghaire with our boys, Kevin and I like to give back to the wedding photography community that has given so much to us.
We speak at wedding photography conferences and mentor our own students through our Doc Shop workshops.
Our most ambitious project to date has been Doc Day, a documentary wedding photography community we founded in Dublin in 2020. It is a wedding photography conference we host in Dublin’s Button Factory venue every February (ahead of each new wedding photography season) with over 200 Irish and international wedding photographers attending to hang out, connect with each other and improve their craft to keep making beautiful meaningful images for their couples. It is about crafting the unposed unique photographs that tell the real story of the day.
Every year we choose a panel of international speakers with their own unique styles honed over years of perfecting their craft.
We all leave inspired, in love with photography and feeling so grateful for this wonderful job we do (after a massive party in the Button Factory naturally!)
