i’m jordanna.
(A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER – AS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS BY NOW)
She of the oddly lyrical name and Italian roots, I live with my husband, son and daughter, enjoy travelling, nesting and getting lost in a good book. I also do my level best to live greenly at all times. I love my garden and recycling is my cardio.
I like to get really swept up in what I shoot: I think it makes for vibrant and characterful photos. I keep my eyes peeled and my finger poised over the trigger for all those intricacies that make your day unique to you.
I like to discourage posing and encourage good times (they’re pretty hard to fake so we kinda have to do it for real).
Above all, I want to enable you guys to feel relaxed enough to just enjoy yourselves on your wedding day and make the whole thing unmistakably ‘you’.
My work is largely documentary in style, find out more HERE, and I won’t really ask you to do anything but crack on and have the best day of your lives while I blend in with your fab guests. Sound good? Drop me a line.
My background in photography.
I have long been, I think it is fair to say, obsessed with art. It’s my specialist pub quiz subject and it has always provided me with that creative release I love. Whether I am creating or consuming art – I just love it. It’s always been my thing.
My mum bought me my first camera when I was about 6. I have never been tech obsessed but I was always that friend with a camera and the one who took a great deal of pleasure cataloguing a whole library of funny and embarrassing moments through the years.
I dived into photography at university in the late 90s and ended up winning a bursary with the Arts Council to study for an MA (toot toot…ha ha). After leaving uni, friends began asking me to shoot their weddings. I didn’t relish the opportunity at first but I agreed to do it and found I absolutely loved it. The privilege of being a part of these special days; being surrounded by all the love and joy and even the pressure that is involved. I got and still do get a buzz from the adrenaline of shooting weddings.
While my style has evolved, the focus of my photography has always been about making people’s memories last – one authentic moment at a time.
Oh, and did I tell you, I won an award…
This is what the judges said about my work.
“We really liked your ability to capture genuinely joyous, funny and quirky expressions without them being hokey, staged or cheesy. It’s clear you didn’t pose them. You’re able to coax a lot of happiness on your own, or at the very least are trigger-ready with impeccable timing. Your colors are balanced — not too saturated — and you somehow match the brightness of those hues with your black and whites. Across the board, whether monochrome or in color, all of your photos look like they’re coming from the same photographer. That was one of the main struggles for others this year: consistency. You had it.
Your detail shots were unexpected and obviously particular to that wedding, and you included photos of guests that particularly stuck in my mind: the guy with the toast hat opening the doors, the grandmother drinking tea with a question mark above her head, the felt hat wearing woman sipping champagne, the guys tying a balloon to a chair. I can recall all of these without looking at your submission because each were engaging in terms of color but also made me stop and look a while. There was a story to each that needed a couple seconds to unpack in my mind, and I wanted to know about the frames you took before and after it. You didn’t just include photos of kids to have kids in there, or the elderly guests just to show you don’t forget about them. All had spunk and purpose.
Essentially, you ticked all the boxes we made, and then made some of your own.”
