Oxford wedding photographer
About Keith.
About · Oxford wedding photographer
Oxford born, street photographer first.
I'm Keith. I grew up in Oxford, and before I photographed weddings I spent years photographing strangers on the street: fleeting gestures, odd light, ordinary moments that quietly said something.
Weddings turned out to be full of the same things, just with better clothes and a dance floor. I've been photographing them as Wychwood Weddings since 2016, mostly across Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds.
The best photographs tend to happen once people forget I'm there.
How I work
Just the day, properly told
I won't spend your day pulling you away from your guests every five minutes. Most of it I photograph as it happens. I'll step in when a bit of direction helps, usually for portraits and family photos, and then get out of the way again.
Before the wedding we'll talk properly, on the phone or over an engagement shoot, so the day itself isn't the first time we've met. No stiff posing, and no standing in a field pretending to laugh at each other.
What I look for
The things nobody asks for, and everybody keeps.
01
The small stuff
A dad fixing a buttonhole, a nan's handbag on the pew, the state of the top table at eleven.
02
The light
Street photography teaches you to watch the light first: a window late in the afternoon, the last half-hour outside. If I move you two steps to the left, that's why.
03
The film
35mm runs alongside digital at every wedding. It made me fussier, slower and more patient, which turns out to suit weddings.
Bigger weddings
A second pair of eyes
For bigger days a second photographer can join, working the same way, so two getting-ready rooms, or the ceremony from both ends, are covered at once.
Where
Oxford and beyond
College chapels and the Town Hall, barns and family houses across Oxfordshire, manor houses in the Cotswolds, and further afield when a wedding needs it.
35mm film for the romance, digital for the documentary truth of it all
Have a look around
Oxford, the Cotswolds
And further afield
Send me your date, your venue and a line or two about the day you're planning. I'll reply within a day or two, usually sooner.