Info: About Andrew

I've had photographers in my family and around me from Day One - going back to my great-great uncle whose photographs, taken from single-engine propeller planes during World War I, are in the Smithsonian collection.

I've worked professionally as both a wedding photographer and an award-winning newspaper and magazine photojournalist since 2003 after graduating from the University of Miami and studying at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia.

Work in news photography has taken me all over the country to cover subjects including politics, sports, and natural disasters. In recent years I've recorded traumatic stories such as Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech shootings, as well as momentous celebrations including Barack Obama's rise to the presidency, visits to the U.S. by the Queen of England and Pope Benedict XVI.

A wedding day, of course, is one of life's most joyous occasions, and I approach it with the same care, diligence and forethought as any news story. The key, I believe, is finding and expressing the emotional core of the day, helping to convey the love of two people to friends and family, now and into the future.

In addition to posed portraits of happy wedding couples and their family and friends, I capture wedding days in the same photojournalistic style that I use for newspapers and magazines. In other words, rather than interjecting myself into the activities and dictating what the bride, groom and guests “should” be doing, I watch as unobtrusively as possible to catch the real moments that happen throughout the day -- from the big laughs shared with the entire wedding party to the quiet affections behind the scenes.

The results are once-in-a-lifetime photographs that you can remember and cherish for the rest of your life.