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Welcome to my blog!

Having shot weddings part-time for three years, I decided to do it full-time early 2007. One year later, in March 2008, I started Eirik Photography.

Traditionally, wedding photography does not receive the same amount of recognition as fashion or fine art photography, but since photographing my first wedding in 2004, my passion to document weddings grew with each one I shoot. As weddings are once in a lifetime events that cannot be "replayed", I find the challenge much more exciting.

Many photographers, local and abroad, influenced my style when I started out. Over time, my photography matured in skill, style and, if you would, philosophy. I now have an idea of how my images should look, what kind of mood my images should reflect, and most importantly I want my images to bring back memories for the wedding couple.

I seldom pose my couples on a wedding day, as my style of photography leans heavily towards journalistic/documentry. I feel that my role on a wedding day should simply be an observer. I record the happenings of the wedding day in a documentary manner. I do not play the role of a director, telling everyone what to do or what's going to happen next. I simply record what I see as it transpires - The essence of the day fully expressed in a candid and natural way.

Many of my clients say that I am very quiet on their wedding. That's simply how I do my job. As what legendary wedding photographer Denis Reggie said," I am not really there to improve, stage, prompt or arrange the wedding. Just there to report what I saw...".

As you browse through my galleries, notice that the majority of the images are genuine expressions... not elaborately posed, no props, or cheesy smiles.

If this is the way you'd like your wedding to be documented, I would be more than glad to do it for you.

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in HIS love,
Eirik