a little about
JD
Welcome I’m JD
It’s great to meet you.
And here we are in 2024. Picking up again and heading west to live in Phoenix and spend my foreseeable future photographing weddings all over the Southwestern US.
Needless to say I couldn’t be more excited and I can’t wait to photograph countless more moments that my future couples will be able to cherish as much as my past couples do.
As far my photography goes, I’m an avid photojournalist. Sadly that has become a trendy buzz word in the wedding photography world so I don’t say it much anymore. Instead, I hope that my photos speak to the real and genuine, unstaged, moments and stories that I love to capture in my work. My favorite photographer hands down is Sebastião Salgado. I of course have all the Magnum books to study and Robert Franks The Americans along with lots of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Who coined my favorite concept of the “decisive moment” that I so often live by. But Salgado to me is in a world of his own. His ability to evoke emotion and tell a complete story in a single photograph….. Yea, I can stare at his work ALL day!
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…. They are made with the eye, heart, and head.
– Henri Cartier-Bresson