I’ve spent a long time working out who I am and where I fit. yeah just like the Jackie chan film!

Cameras have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I didn’t go out looking for “pretty pictures” — I’ve always been obsessed with real moments. Strangers in the street, a split-second expression, someone laughing when they thought no one was watching.

My family used to look at the piles of 7x5 prints of random people like,

“Matt… lovely shots… but who are these people!?”

They saw the art, but not the point.

For me, the whole magic was that it only happened because they didn’t know I was there.

It was real. It was honest. It was life.

As adulthood came along and I did what everyone does — tried to find the “right” path, whatever that means. I worked hard, chased stuff, did the sensible thing… until life just decided to thump me. Patella rupture.

The jumping in and out of trucks and marathon running days were over. Gone.

So I dusted off the old camera, Messaged a mate who shot weddings and asked if I could tag along, see if I had anything in the tank.

And then there I was — proper Forrest Gump moment leg in a metal brace — watching a bride and her dad walk up the aisle. I lifted the camera, took the shot… and it just hit me like a lightbulb switching on.

I’ve been photographing strangers my whole life — and now I get to do it with purpose.

This isn’t just a job….. it’s my life’s work in your wedding memories and delivering every gallery makes me happy.