64Kviews
2020 Wedding Photography Awards Have Been Announced, Here Are The Best 25 Photos Taken During The Pandemic
Coronavirus has taken its toll on all of us and has seen hundreds of thousands of weddings either postponed, canceled, or pared back to minimal guest numbers. The stress and disappointment this must have caused to brides and grooms throughout the world is quite unfathomable—and it has also had a massive effect on those working in the wedding industry.
Wedding photographers have indeed been hit hard, with many of their livelihoods now at risk; many who normally shoot 25 or more weddings a year have now been facing the reality of maybe only a handful, or even less.
More info: thisisreportage.com | Facebook | Instagram
This post may include affiliate links.
Tom Tomeij, Netherlands
But it's not all doom and gloom: During this time, some weddings have still been able to go ahead. Maybe they haven't been the grand-scale events that the couples once envisaged—or maybe they had been planning on eloping anyway!—but either way, people in love have been getting married, and photographers have been doing what they always do: Capturing the moments for them.
Because that's what we celebrate at “This is Reportage”: the real, un-staged and un-posed moments—documentary wedding photography at its very best.
Valter Antunes, Portugal
That's a Rocky pose right there! Full of triumph and 'I won the whole thing!'
Lori-Anne Crewe, Canada
Certainly not the way it was planned. Almost everyone having to watch via Zoom (thank goodness for technology!), heartbroken that family and extended family couldn’t be there in person, and hearing everyone’s well wishes and seeing their tears without the benefit of hugs and closeness normally associated with a traditional wedding. This will be a day you never forget, and with photos like this captured by such an amazing photographer, it will be cherished forever.
Our Awards regularly see over 12,000 submissions, and all the following images represent just the top few percent that have been awarded by our judges (a changing group of world-class photographers themselves) over the past few months, during these Covid-19 times.
Sebastien Clavel, France
Patrick Lombaert, France
Our Reportage Awards are for those very best individual captures, and you'll also see some images from our Story Awards, which are for a series of 15-20 images of a single wedding.
So, though it's been—and still is—possibly the worst imaginable year for the wedding world, we present 25 incredible documentary captures that show that love and weddings won't be stopped by coronavirus.
Kevin Kheffache, Ireland
so pretty... every time i try to take a picture of a screen it has wavy lines tho
Darren Kirwan, Ireland
Mateusz Dobrowolski, Poland
Jill Streefland, Netherlands
Valter Antunes, Portugal
the guy on the left looks so so happy :) im sure the other guy is smiling just as much under the mask
Flavius Partan, Romania
Lyndsey Goddard, UK
Super happy about all of these!! Clearly people actually DO care about getting the virus. All I have seen are news reports and such of people refusing to wear masks and follow protocols
Julien Laurent-Georges, France
Carlos Porfirio, Portugal
I love how even though barely anyone could come, they still made the place as fancy as they wanted
Phil Voon, Ireland
Valter Antunes, Portugal
Chelsea Cannar, UK
Chelsea Cannar, UK
Kristof Claeys, Belgium
Carlos Porfirio, Portugal
Jill Streefland, Netherlands
Valter Antunes, Portugal
Now this is more like it, the new social order, no kissing, no holding hands and everyone is wearing masks. All to protect the old and vulnerable. Now this is a bunch of caring people for our safety. Bravo to them. Now get back home and stay there until a vaccine comes out and the Governments of the world says it's safe.
Philippe Swiggers, Belgium
