Documentary Wedding Photographers
Carol & Paul Tansley are award-winning husband-and-wife documentary wedding photographers based in Hampshire. Ranked among the UK’s Top 10 wedding photographers and internationally recognised by Fearless Photographers, we specialise in natural, candid and unposed wedding photography across the South of England and beyond.
Images You Can Feel!
We believe that wedding photography should be more than just snaps of your day.
We want you to look at your photos and really feel you’re there again,
because we capture the true emotions of the people you love the most. Candid wedding photography at its best.
“You can really feel the emotion in your photos. I don’t know how you do it, but you do it best!”
Kerry & Erin
Real Moments Photography
True Documentary Wedding Photography is all about capturing the day without intrusion or posing. This is also sometimes called Reportage Wedding Photography or photojournalistic style. For 95% of most wedding days we are shooting in a totally unposed, unobtrusive way, with our silent cameras. The other 5%, we are totally happy to shoot a few group photos if requested and we love to shoot a few couple portraits too, but we never let these take over your special day, as most couples would prefer to spend their time talking to their family and friends.
We cover all kinds of weddings, from village halls to stately homes. All that matters to us, is that we capture beautiful photos of all of our couples wedding days.
Top Ten UK Wedding Photographers
Not your average wedding photography!
UK Documentary Wedding Photographers
You are in very safe hands!
We bring a wealth of photography experience to your special day, having shot over 500 weddings in the last 15 years. Previous to this Paul spent 16 years as a fashion photographer, shooting fashion & wedding magazines in London. Carol’s background is as a graphic designer on fashion magazines and spent 7 years as Art Director of Wedding & Home magazine. We have fond memories of our many fashion shoots together.
Although we have won many awards for our wedding photos, we never rest on our laurels and continually strive to make our work even stronger. As creative photographers we pride ourselves in always pushing to create the best images we can from each of our couples’ unique days.
“Paul & Carol were, without a doubt, one of the best decisions we made with regards to our wedding suppliers.
Their style, unobtrusive and natural, was exactly what we were looking for. The photographs tell the story of our day beautifully, capturing emotions that just can’t be staged.”
Sam & Dave
The story of your special day
Your day will be unique, wherever you are getting married. Our relaxed style of unobtrusive wedding photography will capture that uniqueness. We don’t shoot by numbers, just repeating what we’ve shot before. Our photos tell the story of your day, not someone else’s.
Of course, we’ll photograph the obvious things – walking down the aisle, the speeches etc. but it’s the in-between things, the small moments, the personal things, that will make up the majority of your photos. Those are the special unique moments that are important as they only happen at Your Wedding.
Good wedding photography for us, is about storytelling, capturing memories for you to enjoy for many years to come. It’s not just photos of you, the couple, but also lots of photos of your family and friends too. We use all of our photographic skills, when taking pictures. Whether it be observation of light, using our 100% silent cameras or top quality lenses.
Hampshire Wedding Photography
Based in Hampshire 35 mins from Portsmouth, we are right on the border of Surrey and Sussex. Our nearest towns are Guildford, Haslemere, Farnham and Bordon. We cover weddings all over the South of the UK and further afield on request. We’re happy to discuss your wedding plans wherever you are tying the knot.
If you’re looking for a wedding photographer, especially a documentary wedding photographer then we’d love to chat about your plans and how our photographs could capture your day.
Take a look through our wedding venues pages, links in the footer, as they may help you visualise how some of the venues can look in photos of real weddings. For example, we have dedicated pages for Winchester, Basingstoke and the New Forest weddings, plus many other areas.
Top 10 UK Wedding Photographer 2024
Fearless Photographers
Top 10 UK Wedding Photographer 2024
ISPWP
Top 10 UK Wedding Photographer 2024
Wedding Photojournalist Association
