Why I still shoot weddings on film

Film forces a kind of patience that I have come to depend on. With a finite number of frames, you wait. You watch. You make the photograph rather than take it — and weddings, more than anything, reward the photographer who is willing to wait.

There is also the way film renders colour and skin: softer, warmer, more forgiving. It flatters the people in front of the lens in a way that feels true to how the day actually felt, rather than how it technically looked.

I shoot a hybrid of film and digital so that nothing is ever missed. But the heart of the work — the portraits, the quiet moments — is almost always film. It is slower, and that is precisely the point.