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Candid Wedding Photography & Videography By York Place Studios

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YORK PLACE STUDIOS

World renowned candid documentary style UK wedding photographers & videographers

shooting in London, across the UK & worldwide

York Place Studios

Photo & Film Studio

World-renowned candid documentary style UK wedding photographers and videographers shooting London, across the UK & worldwide

To a lot of people, when they think 'Documentary Wedding Photography', they think 'York Place Studios' - they really are that synonymous with the craft

THIS IS REPORTAGE

TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN THEY THINK 'DOCUMENTARY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY' THEY THINK 'YORK PLACE STUDIOS' - THEY REALLY ARE THAT SYNONYMOUS WITH THE CRAFT.

THIS IS REPORTAGE

Candid Wedding Photography and Videography in London UK

York Place Studios are Dom, Liam, Alex and Matt: a multi-award winning UK based family collective of leading street documentary style candid wedding photographers and videographers who seek to find big stories in even the smallest of moments throughout every single stage of a wedding day.

The focus of our unposed, candid wedding photography is on people and personality, seeking to create lasting memories with connection, humour, life and atmosphere, just the way it felt to be there.

Real stories, real personality, real memories. Real moments that really matter.

OFFICIAL FUJIFILM UK X-PHOTOGRAPHERS 2020 – 2022
London Wedding Photographers with a world-class reputation

MAKE MEMORIES, NOT JUST PHOTOGRAPHS

Forget about the camera & enjoy your day

BEST WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE UK
– Fearless Photographers & This Is Reportage Awards
See some of our other awards here

IS THIS SOMETHING?

by York Place Studios

``The definitive book on documentary wedding photography``

- This Is Reportage

We’re proud to announce our new book “Is This Something” all about the art of documentary wedding photography! Read about the concepts, philosophies and techniques we use to consistently create big photographs from even the most seemingly insignificant moments.

POPULAR ARTICLES

They are incredibly passionate about shooting with a true documentary eye. Nothing is staged or posed but still very intentional and crafted. They often shoot wide and use layers to build a scene and relay a rich narrative within each frame

PROFESSIONAL PHOTO MAGAZINE

They are incredibly passionate about shooting with a true documentary eye. Nothing is staged or posed but still very intentional and crafted. They often shoot wide and use layers to build a scene and relay a rich narrative within each frame

PROFESSIONAL PHOTO MAGAZINE

WHAT IS DOCUMENTARY / CANDID WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY?

Put simply, as documentary wedding photographers our main focus is on capturing real, candid moments throughout every part of the wedding day without posing or directing you in any way.

The job of a documentary wedding photographer is to move our own feet, not yours to create interesting compositions. That way you can stay in the moment and just relax and enjoy your day without worrying what your photographers are up to!

That’s not to say that we won’t take any group shots or portraits if those are important to you. This is your wedding day and we’re there to capture everything you need. Our priority though is to let events unfold without our interference so that your wedding photographs show the real you. Our candid wedding photography & videography style is about creating imagery that captures the atmosphere and showcases the real personalities of your family and friends on the biggest day of your lives. We’ll never stop looking for great stories and opportunities. We know that every single part of your wedding is an important memory. Our philosophy is that every moment throughout the day is just as important as the last.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

Rhona & Chris {Londesborough Pub, London}

london-wedding-photographer-testimonials

We could not recommend Dom and Liam enough! We had the most amazing day and a huge amount of that was down to them being the best photographers ever! We absolutely loved having them photograph our day. They were so thoughtful, enthusiastic, subtle and just basically great fun to be around! It was like having a couple of friends there, which is exactly what we wanted.

Celia & Alastair {Battersea Park, London}

Every photo managed to capture our wedding day so perfectly. Looking through our photos now we have a story of the whole day, showing us things that we never realised were even happening. We have had so many people come to us and tell us the photos are the best they have seen and we are so proud of this.

Hollie & Kieran {Colehayes Park, Devon}

We honestly cannot properly put into words how amazing our photographers were. Dom and Liam were beyond incredible. As my husband and I are both creative, and I myself as a filmmaker and photographer, getting the right photographers for our wedding was the only thing we were really picky about. And so after searching high and low, we found York Place Studios and fell in love.

Cameracraft Magazine

commercial-testimonials

Eyes sharpened by Street Photography, Dom & Liam demonstrate a wealth of digital street and wedding photography techniques, embodying the best qualities of traditional film-based approaches

Chelsea & Antony {Morden Hall, London}

We absolutely love the work of Dom & Liam. We have had so many comments on our wedding photos – people just absolutely love the style. They managed to capture all the happiness, joy and laughter of the entire day. Not only that but they made us and all our guests feel so comfortable – they literally blended in and worked their magic. We highly recommend their work – you won’t regret booking them!

Beth & Tim {Star Inn, Yorkshire}

yorkshire-photographer-testimonials

Dom and Liam are the most genuine, sweet and talented artists who were a highlight of our January wedding. The photos of the day speak for themselves. They are everything we asked for and more, each one is a piece of art in its own right. They went above and beyond what was asked of them to make the day perfect, and we will aways have the photos they took to remember not only the day but the amazing people that took them.

Juliet & Richard {Finca Son Salas, Mallorca}

destination-wedding-photographer-testimonials

Oh my lord, these guys are good. They absolutely captured the atmosphere, the feeling, the love. The photos are intimate, expressive, stunningly artistic. And they are SO NICE to deal with – professional, passionate, lovely. I literally cannot recommend these guys highly enough, we are beyond delighted with what they delivered.

Ally & Alex {Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire}

yorkshire-wedding-photographer-testimonials

We are obsessed with our wedding photos! York Place Studios did an amazing job of capturing moment after moment in a way that tells a story through different perspectives, and takes you back to those moments every time you look at the photos. If you are looking for lively, candid, cool and artistic wedding photos, we would highly recommend York Place Studios.

Hadar & Dan {Islington, London}

london-pub-photographer-testimonials

Choosing our wedding photographers was the easiest task we had. The photos on their website were so mesmerising, we wanted to frame them without knowing the people, and this is the difference between traditional wedding pictures to the art they bring. The results were phenomenal. We cannot recommend York Place Studios enough, anyone who’ll have them on their wedding is lucky.

Gemma & John {The Ravenswood, West Sussex}

destination-wedding-photography-testimonials

These guys really are the masters of their art. I didn’t want traditional, staged photos for our wedding and was looking for something more spontaneous and humorous. I came across their website and was blown away. They were exactly what I was looking for – fun, silly and different. On the day, they really were amazingly friendly and easy to work with. And then the photos arrived… Unbelievable! I have nothing but praise for them.

Shelby & Creagh {Nantucket, USA}

nantucket-destination-wedding-photographer-testimonials

This review is long overdue, but the gratitude we feel toward Dom and Liam has only grown since our wedding several months ago. The way in which they captured our day is something we will treasure for the rest of our lives. No posing, perfectly imperfect….just as it happened. Each time we go through them we find little bits that we never noticed. They exceeded our expectations beyond what we can describe in words.

Bex & Dave {Comrie Croft, Scotland}

scottish-wedding-photographer-testimonials

There’s no words that are good enough to describe how brilliant York Place Studios were when it came to capturing our day! The pictures we have of our wedding are beautiful, funny, and heartwarming, you can tell that this team care about the people they are photographing and the story they are telling. Their art is amazing. The moments they have caught of our friends, family and all our loved ones will stay with us forever and we know we made the right choice!

Keep It Real

talk-testimonials

Dom and Liam transfer their roots from street photography to weddings by literally photographing ordinary moments and situations in an incomparable, interesting and creative way. You don’t need extraordinary places with extraordinary people to create a successful reportage, you can do it in any situation and York Place are the masters.

This Is Reportage

award-winning-wedding-photography-testimonials

To a lot of people, when they think ‘Documentary Wedding Photography’, they think ‘York Place Studios’ – they really are that synonymous with the craft. Their ‘Create, Don’t Recreate’ tagline epitomises the reportage approach to me – and the particular way in which they go about that, with such eyes for artistic compositions and deeply layered imagery is something to behold.

Breathe Pictures Podcast

award-winning-wedding-photographers-testimonials

Masters in layering, creative inventors behind the lens.

Rhona & Chris {Londesborough Pub, London}

london-wedding-photographer-testimonials

We could not recommend Dom and Liam enough! We had the most amazing day and a huge amount of that was down to them being the best photographers ever! We absolutely loved having them photograph our day. They were so thoughtful, enthusiastic, subtle and just basically great fun to be around! It was like having a couple of friends there, which is exactly what we wanted.

Celia & Alastair {Battersea Park, London}

Every photo managed to capture our wedding day so perfectly. Looking through our photos now we have a story of the whole day, showing us things that we never realised were even happening. We have had so many people come to us and tell us the photos are the best they have seen and we are so proud of this.

Hollie & Kieran {Colehayes Park, Devon}

We honestly cannot properly put into words how amazing our photographers were. Dom and Liam were beyond incredible. As my husband and I are both creative, and I myself as a filmmaker and photographer, getting the right photographers for our wedding was the only thing we were really picky about. And so after searching high and low, we found York Place Studios and fell in love.

Cameracraft Magazine

commercial-testimonials

Eyes sharpened by Street Photography, Dom & Liam demonstrate a wealth of digital street and wedding photography techniques, embodying the best qualities of traditional film-based approaches

Chelsea & Antony {Morden Hall, London}

We absolutely love the work of Dom & Liam. We have had so many comments on our wedding photos – people just absolutely love the style. They managed to capture all the happiness, joy and laughter of the entire day. Not only that but they made us and all our guests feel so comfortable – they literally blended in and worked their magic. We highly recommend their work – you won’t regret booking them!

Beth & Tim {Star Inn, Yorkshire}

yorkshire-photographer-testimonials

Dom and Liam are the most genuine, sweet and talented artists who were a highlight of our January wedding. The photos of the day speak for themselves. They are everything we asked for and more, each one is a piece of art in its own right. They went above and beyond what was asked of them to make the day perfect, and we will aways have the photos they took to remember not only the day but the amazing people that took them.

Juliet & Richard {Finca Son Salas, Mallorca}

destination-wedding-photographer-testimonials

Oh my lord, these guys are good. They absolutely captured the atmosphere, the feeling, the love. The photos are intimate, expressive, stunningly artistic. And they are SO NICE to deal with – professional, passionate, lovely. I literally cannot recommend these guys highly enough, we are beyond delighted with what they delivered.

Ally & Alex {Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire}

yorkshire-wedding-photographer-testimonials

We are obsessed with our wedding photos! York Place Studios did an amazing job of capturing moment after moment in a way that tells a story through different perspectives, and takes you back to those moments every time you look at the photos. If you are looking for lively, candid, cool and artistic wedding photos, we would highly recommend York Place Studios.

Hadar & Dan {Islington, London}

london-pub-photographer-testimonials

Choosing our wedding photographers was the easiest task we had. The photos on their website were so mesmerising, we wanted to frame them without knowing the people, and this is the difference between traditional wedding pictures to the art they bring. The results were phenomenal. We cannot recommend York Place Studios enough, anyone who’ll have them on their wedding is lucky.

Gemma & John {The Ravenswood, West Sussex}

destination-wedding-photography-testimonials

These guys really are the masters of their art. I didn’t want traditional, staged photos for our wedding and was looking for something more spontaneous and humorous. I came across their website and was blown away. They were exactly what I was looking for – fun, silly and different. On the day, they really were amazingly friendly and easy to work with. And then the photos arrived… Unbelievable! I have nothing but praise for them.

Shelby & Creagh {Nantucket, USA}

nantucket-destination-wedding-photographer-testimonials

This review is long overdue, but the gratitude we feel toward Dom and Liam has only grown since our wedding several months ago. The way in which they captured our day is something we will treasure for the rest of our lives. No posing, perfectly imperfect….just as it happened. Each time we go through them we find little bits that we never noticed. They exceeded our expectations beyond what we can describe in words.

Bex & Dave {Comrie Croft, Scotland}

scottish-wedding-photographer-testimonials

There’s no words that are good enough to describe how brilliant York Place Studios were when it came to capturing our day! The pictures we have of our wedding are beautiful, funny, and heartwarming, you can tell that this team care about the people they are photographing and the story they are telling. Their art is amazing. The moments they have caught of our friends, family and all our loved ones will stay with us forever and we know we made the right choice!

Keep It Real

talk-testimonials

Dom and Liam transfer their roots from street photography to weddings by literally photographing ordinary moments and situations in an incomparable, interesting and creative way. You don’t need extraordinary places with extraordinary people to create a successful reportage, you can do it in any situation and York Place are the masters.

This Is Reportage

award-winning-wedding-photography-testimonials

To a lot of people, when they think ‘Documentary Wedding Photography’, they think ‘York Place Studios’ – they really are that synonymous with the craft. Their ‘Create, Don’t Recreate’ tagline epitomises the reportage approach to me – and the particular way in which they go about that, with such eyes for artistic compositions and deeply layered imagery is something to behold.

Breathe Pictures Podcast

award-winning-wedding-photographers-testimonials

Masters in layering, creative inventors behind the lens.

WATCH DOMINIQUE SHOOTING STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IN LONDON IN FUJIFILM'S X-E4 LAUNCH COMMERCIAL

York Place Studios founder and photographer Dominique Shaw was the star of Fujifilm's X-E4 camera launch promotional film! Play the video to watch Dominique photographing the streets of London in her candid style and sharing how she uses shooting street photography in cities as diverse as London, Havana and Tokyo as practice for her wedding photography.

Photography is not just our job, it's what we love to do and so we carry cameras like the X-E4 with us wherever we go, whether that's shooting wedding photography, street photography, or just capturing our family memories at home.

CANDID WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS RECOGNISED IN INTERNATIONAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS!

Our wedding work has long been influenced by street photography - so much so that two of our wedding photographs were finalists in the world-respected London Street Photography Festival!

WEDDINGS CAPTURED IN A CANDID STREET PHOTOGRAPHY STYLE

street photography by york place studios

Click to view our candid street photography images from around the world

Photography isn't just our job it's our lifelong hobby and, whilst weddings are undoubtedly our true passion, in our spare time we like to get out there with our cameras and shoot in another candid photography style: street photography.

Street photography is our creative playground - a chance to challenge ourselves to work outside of the structure of a wedding day and create something original from the world around us. On the street there are a thousand stories to capture yet no clear central storyline - everything around us has the potential to be a great photograph and everything is equally interesting.

We've taken that concept of everything having equal importance and applied it to weddings. When photographing a wedding we don't just focus on the central story of two people getting married, we want to show everyone who was there and the relationships and moments that happened between them. Street photography has been an important part of our journey as photographers and helped us to break the creative barriers of any genre and photograph in our own unique style. Whether that's photographing a beautiful UK London wedding or a complex Mexican street scene, it's really about capturing great photography, not just great wedding photography.

OUR JOB IS NOT JUST TO EXCEED OUR COUPLE'S EXPECTATIONS,
IT'S TO EXCEED THEIR IMAGINATIONS

OUR JOB IS NOT JUST TO EXCEED OUR COUPLE'S EXPECTATIONS,
IT'S TO EXCEED THEIR IMAGINATIONS

News, Travels & Events

Latest news from York Place

Read all of our latest news, including the international events we've been speaking at, the awards we've been honoured with and find out all about the incredible suppliers we work with and are proud to represent.

Capturing Weddings Across the Globe

Popular Locations

From London to Tokyo we travel all across the world photographing beautiful celebrations in our candid wedding photography & videography style. Click the links to see some popular wedding destinations.

I don't say it enough, from street photographer to street
photographer, how endlessly amazed I am and how special each and every photo is to me. You captured the epitome of what my heart feels when I remember that day, and I'll always have that. These pictures are my family in a candid nutshell.

SHELBY & CREAGH

London Documentary Wedding Photographers and Videographers On a Global Stage

Whilst for our particular brand of creative, candid wedding videography and street-inspired documentary wedding photography London has become our most visited city we’re always happy to travel anywhere across the UK... in fact anywhere in the world! We regularly travel across Europe and further afield with recent destination weddings including beautiful settings such as Nantucket USA, The Dordogne region of France, Krakow Poland and Spain’s Costa Del Sol.

York Place has a worldwide reputation and we're proud that amongst our various awards Liam was the top UK wedding photographer in two hugely respected international competitions in 2019 - Fearless Photographers and This Is Reportage. You can go to our press and awards page to read more about our award-winning candid wedding photography.

Speaking of international news we're also proud to have recently concluded a maximum 3-year term as official FUJIFILM X-Photographers, representing one of the world's leading camera makers. Fujifilm's long established film heritage has been carried through to their incredible cameras and Fujifilm's X-Series have been our firm cameras of choice for both photography and videography since 2016. You can read more about the role we served as official FUJFILM X-Photographers on our Ambassadors page.

We're also international wedding photography and videography educators - travelling all over the world to speak at photo/video events and offer workshops to other photographers and filmmakers about our unique candid approach. Check our talks and events page for news of recent and upcoming talks and workshops.

Fearless Award winning London documentary wedding photographers
Fujifilm X Photographers 2022
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Fearless Award winning London documentary wedding photographers

WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY - A FAMILY BUSINESS

Make memories, not just photographs

Wedding Albums featuring documentary photography images
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Wedding Albums featuring documentary photography images

Wedding photographs and films are not just for you, they're important family heirlooms passed on from generation to generation - a record of what you looked like but more importantly who you were on the most important day of your life; who your friends and family were. When your grandkids one day sit down and look through your wedding album we want them to know you, to understand you, to be closer to you.

But that understanding doesn't come from looking at a carefully orchestrated pose, it comes from the real moments, the spontaneous moments, the moments where you showed what was really in your heart and what your personality was really about.

For you your wedding day should not be about making photographs, it's about making memories. We suggest you live and feel every single second of it, and leave it to us, your wedding photographers and wedding videographers, to candidly capture every last memory.

CLICK HERE TO ENQUIRE ABOUT WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEOGRAPHY FOR YOUR WEDDING

Use the form to tell us a little about your wedding and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!

CLICK HERE TO ENQUIRE ABOUT WEDDING PHOTO OR VIDEO

Use the form to tell us a little about your wedding and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!