The Snapper

I’m Harmit, I live in Brixton in South London and have been photographing weddings all over London and beyond for over a decade. Rather than me giving you a full Tinder like bio, you’ll get a much better sense of what I’m like through a quick perusal of my 200+ five-star Google Reviews. What I will tell you a bit about here is my values. My background is in photojournalism and documentary work. And I have worked in the charity and human rights field for a long time. So things like equality, representation and authenticity matter to me. I reflect these values in my wedding photography. Which means, for example, that I don’t photograph brides as if they're fairytale princesses or grooms as if they're in one of those cringey monochrome aftershave ads. I find that style of wedding photography anachronistic. Throughout a wedding day, I just try to represent couples as equal partners, and having a blast with their family and friends. I try to bring further ethical dimensions to my work too. You’ve probably learned by now that your wedding or civil partnership is swirling in the vortex of the ‘wedding-industrial complex’, where there’s a ‘reassuringly expensive’ mark-up on everything. That includes lots of mediocre wedding photographers stridently stating on their websites that "wedding photography prices start at £1,795”. I try to keep my prices as low, fair and transparent as possible. The professional London wedding photographers whose work I’d compare mine to charge close to double my fee. You can see lots of transparent information about my prices and packages here. Something else I do is divert part of my fee to charity. So, for every booking, £25 of the fee is donated to one of my favourite charities - Bliss, the Trussell Trust or the Disasters Emergency Committee. In any given year, this raises over £1,500 for charity. I hold an MA (Distinction) in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication. As well as photographing weddings I still work with charities and progressive not-for-profit organisations to tell photo-based stories about social issues. I also love shooting gigs. And I have recently started shooting portraits and headshots. So, while I know that’s not a standard personal profile, I hope it’s more useful than a Tinder like bio about how much I love coffee and long walks (I’m not a big fan of either to be honest). Harmit Kambo (he/him)