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LISA.

THE PERSON
who will tell you
what to do with
YOUR HANDS.

SRSLY, why do they feel so weird in photos?

I’m all about the life and the love and the little things that happen when those two things are in the room.

My route into weddings was when my agent at the time married. As she put on the frock and sprayed the perfume, did up her earrings, and popped on a little tiara, that was me, with harps playing and golden light raining down on me* – my big epiphany.

I WOULD BECOME A WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER!!!

* I might be remembering this part wrong

Hey I’m Lisa Devlin, your girl behind the lens.

You could say that my style is edgy, editorial, and emotional.

Ready to dig deeper?

Picture: Katie Rogers

THE STORY OF ME.

01.

ORIGIN STORY ALERT

Born and raised in Northern Ireland, although, after spending most of my life in sunny Brighton, I’ve pretty much lost the accent.

After a few twists and turns, I ended up working as a music industry photographer for over 10 years. It was an incredible decade of adventures, globe-trotting escapades, and seeing beneath the facade of many a famous face.

This is when I developed my unshakeable ability to keep calm under pressure, a desire to always want to get the real stories and a fascination for how we all connect.

When my lovely agent got married, she asked me to be her wedding photographer. That is when I fell hard for this game. I love the layers to weddings, I love finding out the stories and the connections that bring people into the room, I love the extraordinary elements to these days.

THE PLOT TWIST

So what’s an ‘editorial wedding photographer’?

It’s someone taking influence from magazines and fashion photography and bringing that to the table when they photograph weddings.

It conveys the mood, focuses on the aesthetic, and details the exchanges of emotions.

It feels hugely privileged to have some of the very highest industry accolades including Wedding Photographer Of The Year from The British Journal Of Photography and being named a Hasselblad Heroine.

“Before weddings, I photographed celebrities and music artists for 10 years. I was working with people who were celebrated every day. When I moved into weddings, I began photographing people who are celebrated for that one big day. I want my subjects to feel the sense of being special that celebrities experience every day. That’s what I would love for viewers to consider when they look at my work.”

Picture: James Pearce

 

02.

03.

MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY

After two decades in the industry, I sometimes think I’ve seen it all – then something mad happens and I’m like, no, not even close!

When not photographing weddings, I might be in a studio or on location doing a creative editorial or job for a magazine.

As if all of this didn’t keep me busy enough, I also have a company called Photography Farm. This is all about educating, supporting, and nurturing other wedding photographers.

Invitations have come my way to speak about photography at conferences in New York, London, Warsaw, and Vienna.

It is extremely rewarding and can you guess what a bunch of wedding photographers want to do when they get together? Yes, they get a little messy on the dance floor to cheesy music too.

 

WHEN I’M NOT BEHIND THE CAMERA.

YOU’LL FIND ME…

Living on the coast, standing at the back of a gig, or drinking proper tea made in a teapot.

I love the smell of a new magazine, seeing a symmetric time like 11:11 (make a wish!), and hearing the traffic news when I have no place that I need to be.

MY TOXIC TRAITS – almost always, I prefer a cover version to the original. Plus I will merrily binge a new series but put off watching the finale for as long as I possibly can.

Beverly Goldberg is my Spirit Animal.