About Paul

Before becoming a full-time wedding photographer, my career followed a very different path. I spent many years working in the hospitality and catering industry, eventually as a general manager — a role that taught me how to read people, work calmly under pressure and anticipate moments as they unfold. Skills that naturally transferred to documentary photography.

Nearly twenty years ago, photography became far more than a personal interest when I was contacted by Christine Osborne, a travel writer who ran a specialist photo library called World Religions. She had discovered my photographs of Sufi dancers in Cairo and invited me to contribute to the library. That single email marked a turning point, leading to many years of collaboration where I learnt the foundations of visual storytelling, composition and patience.

Alongside this work, I became a major contributor to the library and later to agencies such as Alamy, where my archive now includes over 15,000 images. In my spare time, I travelled extensively across the UK and internationally, photographing festivals and events as they happened — from Sufi rituals in Cairo and Ashura in South London to the Black Christ Festival in Panama.

By 2015, I chose to step away from my career in catering and dedicate myself entirely to photography. Today, I specialise in weddings, bringing with me years of documentary experience and a quiet, unobtrusive approach. Those formative years continue to shape how I photograph weddings — focusing not just on how they look, but how they feel.

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