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At the end of the year, instead of asking for the best images, we asked something much simpler – and, in many ways, much harder:

What was your favourite documentary moment you photographed in 2025?

Not the most awarded.
Not the most “impressive”.
Just the one that stayed with you.

And 115 TiR members took part.

What came back was a brilliant reminder of why documentary wedding photography matters. Across these images, you’ll find joy, chaos, quietness, humour, grief, relief, tenderness, silliness, love – and everything in between. Moments that happened despite the camera being there. Moments that couldn’t be planned, repeated, or refined by direction.

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David Scholes has just achieved something truly extraordinary: winning both our This is Reportage Photographer of the Year and our Storyteller of the Year titles for 2025. To take either award is incredibly difficult. To take both in the same year is almost unheard of — a rare combination of vision, timing, consistency and sheer documentary instinct at the very highest level.

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Bringing our 8 Years of This is Reportage series right up to date, Matt Badenoch (UK) reminds us exactly what documentary wedding photography is all about: emotion, connection, and the quiet power of truth.

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Some wedding days are defined by emotion, others by atmosphere — and sometimes, it’s the dress that steals the show. In 2024, Isabelle Hattink (Netherlands) proved that even the most traditional symbol of a wedding can take on a life of its own, with a Story Award that had everyone smiling.

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Some photographers have a rare ability to make you see the familiar in new ways — to reveal layers of design and meaning hidden within everyday life. Hollie Mateer (UK) is one of those photographers. Her black-and-white Reportage Award from 2023 is a perfect example: a striking, clever composition that transforms a wedding scene into something almost surreal.

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