London wedding photographer | ethical affordable transparent
I’m Harmit, I live in Brixton in South London and have been a London wedding photographer for over a decade. Rather than me giving you a full Tinder like bio, you’ll get a much better sense of what I’m like through a quick perusal of my 200+ verified Google Reviews.
What I will tell you a bit about here is my values and ethos. My background is in photojournalism and documentary work. And I have worked in the charity and human rights field for a long time. So things like equality, representation and authenticity matter to me.
I reflect these values in my wedding photography. Which means, for example, that I don’t photograph brides as if they're fairytale princesses or grooms as if they're in one of those cringey monochrome aftershave ads (indeed, that last sentence is the only reference you will find on my website to ‘brides’ and ‘grooms’. I prefer to talk more LGBTQIA+ inclusively, and just refer to ‘couples’). I find that style of wedding photography anachronistic. Throughout a wedding day, I just try to represent couples as equal partners, and having a blast with their family and friends.
I try to bring further ethical dimensions to my work too.
You’ve probably learned by now that your wedding or civil partnership is swirling in the vortex of the ‘wedding-industrial complex’, where there’s a ‘reassuringly expensive’ mark-up on everything. That includes lots of mediocre London wedding photographers stridently stating on their websites that "wedding photography prices start at £2,500”.
I try to keep my prices as low, fair and transparent as possible. The professional London wedding photographers whose work I’d compare mine to charge close to double my fee. You can see lots of transparent information about my prices and packages here.
Something else I do is divert part of the price of every wedding booking to charity. So, for every wedding, £25 of the fee is donated to one of my favourite charities - Bliss, WaterAid, the Trussell Trust or the Disasters Emergency Committee. In any given year, this raises over £1,000 for charity.
I hold an MA (Distinction) in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication. As well as photographing weddings I still work with charities and progressive not-for-profit organisations to tell photo-based stories about social issues. I also love shooting gigs. And I have recently started shooting portraits and headshots.
So, while I know that’s not a standard personal profile, I hope it’s more useful than a Tinder like bio about how much I love coffee and long walks (I’m not a big fan of either to be honest).
Harmit Kambo (he/him)
Contact me
Use the contact form or drop me a line at photo@harmitkambo.com.
I respond to every single email without fail, so if you don't hear from me within 24 hours, you’re probably in my spam folder, or I’m in yours. In which case, feel free to call me or send me a quick text message on 07780 994204, or click on the green button in the corner to WhatsApp me.
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