Award-Winning Wedding Photography, 2024
It’s wonderful to be accepted into a community of artists from around the world that understands & celebrates the importance of capturing real, unscripted moments with documentary style photography. Recently, I’ve been incredibly honored to be recognized again for my work, & not just locally but on a global scale! Here's a little about the wedding photo awards I’ve received this year in 2024 and what they mean to me. (I’ll save the family photojournalism awards for another post).
Before I was a member of the Wedding Photojournalism Association, I was a lurker. I would visit the website before I shot weddings to get inspired and see the recent award-winning work from some of the top wedding photographers in the world.
After years of developing a portfolio of my own, I finally worked up the courage to apply myself. Somehow, this was already 14 years ago! I've juggled working with my camera while spending 11 of those years either pregnant or taking care of my own four young children, but now that my last baby has become a toddler, I’m really ready to dive back into wedding world head on. So, it was super cool to an opportunity to submit work from any year into the 2024 WPJA Spotlight Collection competition. And even cooler to see 8 of my images place!
Even though our move to Sandpoint, ID is recent, this lifts my ranking to one of the Top 3 Wedding Photographers in the state of Idaho. It also just gets me so excited to photograph couples here in North Idaho too.
Weddings are such a whirlwind of emotions, and it’s my job to preserve those moments in a tangible way with photographs. Receiving these awards is a reminder that my approach, focusing on genuine emotion and some of the more candid moments of a wedding day, is valued by not just my brides and grooms but also the international photography community at large. How fun!
For more examples of my award-winning work that has been featured in the WPJA collections, please visit my profile on the Wedding Photojournalism website. Thanks!
