Bibi The Photographer

I have just moved back to the UK after fifteen years in Mexico where my destination wedding work was featured in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. I have been shooting weddings since I was sixteen years old, working with film and developing and printing the images by hand in my mother's darkroom. I have shot high end weddings in Mexico, Europe and the USA but now I am back in the UK and bringing up a toddler on my own I would like to start shooting a slightly different kind of wedding; less production, less stress for everyone, more real life. I believe my greatest strengths as a photographer are capturing the spirit of real people living real moments. Yes, I can make images that look like a Vogue shoot (and I am happy to do so) but the photographs that move me most are the ones that seem to freeze time, making the past present again. A bride from twelve years ago just wrote to me to say she had lost all her wedding images in a house move and did I still have them. Of course I did. I sent them to her and a week later she wrote to me saying that her father had passed away since her wedding and that seeing these photographs of them together, laughing on the morning of her wedding day, had made tears of sadness and joy stream down her face. Her child had asked her why she was crying, because look how happy I am with my daddy, you never knew him but here he is laughing with me. She could look at these photographs and here he was again with her, laughing by her side. This is why I continue to do the work I do. Because I believe in photography. Not to get you more Instagram followers or show how perfectly designed your wedding was, but to hold the real treasures of life, for now and for the future.