Wedding Photographer sussex

Contemporary wedding photographer covering Sussex weddings and Surrey weddings, Hampshire, London and across the UK and Europe

Welcome to our photography site. Barrie is a Sussex based photographer who works in all areas of the UK, in particular Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and London.

Barrie is well known for his relaxed and fun approach to wedding and portrait photography, which results in spontaneous and memorable pictures. With a particular interest in contemporary reportage wedding photography, Barrie is also happy to take more traditional wedding photographs if this is your preference.

Portrait photography can be carried out at our home-based studio located near Chichester in West Sussex, or Barrie can travel to your home to take your portrait photographs.

Please take a look at further details of our wedding and portrait photography services on the website and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact Barrie Downie London photographer.

Reportage wedding photographer - informal reportage style wedding photography in black and white colour. Working throughout the UK. Very unobtrusive working methods allowing weddings to happen naturally, rather than be dominated by a photographer. Based in Sussex and London.

Portraiture constitutes a substantial proportion of all photographic images created in the 19th century. They satisfied a curiosity to record the features of immediate family and friends as keepsakes and tokens of affection. Photography, meanwhile, allowed for the widespread publication of portraits of important or celebrated subjects, including political figures, royalty, and members of the aristocracy, and celebrities in the worlds of science, literature, and the fine and performing arts. In the 1840s, the daguerreotype became the favoured process for portrait photographers whose businesses achieved rapid and widespread popularity throughout the United States, Great Britain, France, and elsewhere in Europe. The presentation of the unique daguerreotype plates with gilt mats in velvet-lined leather or embossed paper cases or small frames identified them as precious objects, in the tradition of the precisely painted and exquisitely packaged portrait miniature. Fine hand-colouring reinforced the link with the conventions of miniature painting.

The first extensive portrait project using negatives and prints on paper was that undertaken in 1843 by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Hill, an artist, had determined to paint a historic group portrait of the First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. The many photographic portraits made in preparation for this and the studies of Scottish types and distinguished figures which were the fruit of a collaboration that lasted until Adamson's death in 1848 constitute one of the finest legacies from the first decade of photography. Hill and Adamson's calotypes (made with Talbot's process) exploited the limitations of the paper negative, using broad chiaroscuro to considerable aesthetic effect. The daguerreotype, in comparison, though capable of greater clarity and finer detail, gave a more factual, less painterly result. In the hands of such distinguished practitioners as Southworth and Hawes, the portrait daguerreotype was capable of considerable strength by virtue of the very specific power of this clarity, the authority of fact and detail. Three portrait photographers of the 1850s and 1860s demand attention for their considerable and contrasting achievements. Nadar, in the 1850s, produced a distinguished series of character studies of the great men and women of French Second Empire society as is ther want . His portraits combine intimacy and a sense of truth, with stark and forceful representations of both the features and personalities of his sitters. In the following decade Julia Margaret Cameron undertook a series of portraits of eminent British subjects and studies of wedding photography sussex.